Monday, 13 August 2018

Ken Liu - "The paper menagerie and other stories"

Not all of them are great, but some breathtaking stories, such as the "The paper menagerie" itself of course, as well as "State Change" of a girl with an icecube as her soul.


"Everything passes, Hiroto," Dad said. "That feeling in your heart: it's called mono no aware. It is a sense of the transcience of all things in life. The sun, the dandelion, the cicada, the Hammer, and all of us: we are all subject to the equations of James Clerk Maxwell, and we are all ephmeral patterns destined to eventually fade, whether in a second or an eon."