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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

By: Ken Liu
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo, Cindy Kay, Michael Kramer, Nancy Wu, Emily Woo Zeller
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“I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I’m reading Ken Liu’s stories, I feel like I’m reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I’m in awe.” (Jamie Ford, New York Times best-selling author)

“Captivating.” (BuzzFeed)

“Extraordinary.” (The Washington Post)

“Brilliant.” (The Chicago Tribune)

With the release of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu’s short fiction has resonated with a generation of listeners.

From stories about time-traveling assassins, to Black Mirror-esque tales of cryptocurrency and internet trolling, to heartbreaking narratives of parent-child relationships, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is a far-reaching work that explores topical themes from the present and a visionary look at humanity’s future.

This collection includes a selection of Liu’s speculative-fiction stories over the past five years - 17 of his best - plus a new novelette. In addition, it also features an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, the third book in Liu’s epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty.

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About the Creator - Ken Liu

About the Creator

Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards for his fiction, he has also won top genre honors abroad in Japan, Spain, and France.
Liu’s most characteristic work is the four-volume epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers, not wizards, are the heroes of a silkpunk world on the verge of modernity. His debut collection of short fiction, The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. A second collection, The Hidden Girl And Other Stories, followed. He also penned the Star Wars novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker.
He’s often involved in media adaptations of his work. Recent projects include The Message, under development by 21 Laps and Film Nation Entertainment; Good Hunting, adapted as an episode in season one of Netflix’s breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots, and AMC’s Pantheon, with Craig Silverstein as executive producer, adapted from an interconnected series of Liu’s short stories.
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Liu worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, history of technology, bookmaking, and the mathematics of origami.
Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
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Interconnected Stories • Thought-provoking Ideas • Excellent Narration • Human Relationships • Imaginative Concepts
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Some of the stories were strange, some over my head with conversations on coding and digital "singularity", but ultimately thought provoking and vastly interesting.

masterful

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Really great and Nancy W. is always great. The stories and this Silkpunk thing, is really great!

Enjoyed!

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These stories are beautiful and deep. I cried and laughed. Some of these stories will really stay with me.

Wow. Heart pulling

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From the POV of the uploaded, to those left behind, to digital natives. Just, perfect.

Best portrayal of mind-uploading I've ever read

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There are enough really interesting stories to make it worth the listen. All are nicely written and some are quite lovely. There is a fragment of a longer story that is really intriguing. Why was it included with no indication of where to continue? Overall? A grim vision of our future but poignant.

Gems amongst the dross

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Quite a few of these 17 stories were great and many others were good. A few are fantasy, while most are speculative fiction and science fiction. I highly recommend this collection. Several of these stories were made into a anima limited series called Pantheon which I also recommend. Some of the stories where made into episodes of Love, Death + Robots.

The narration and narrators were very good.

An excellent collection of shorts

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I bought “The Hidden Girl and Other Stories” without any suggestions or recommendations from anyone. This is the best book that I’ve read so far this year. I’m a science fiction junkie. All of the stories in this book are so interwoven that you feel like you are reading an anthology, but they are intertwined together. Ken Liu is a remarkable author. These sets of short stories are so well put together that you feel like you are reading one novel.

So Interwoven

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the short stories start out great but they either drag for too long or become repetitive.

some stories sound like others.

bit much and repetitive

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I got turned on to this one from the TV show Pantheon which is borrowed from a couple of related stories in this completion. They're great! And the other short stories they come bundled with are fascinating, as well.

Contains the inspiration for the TV show Pantheon

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The autor, as always, creates the perfect combination between world building and deep emotional exploration

Great listening

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