Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work ¿ sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking. Included here are: <i>The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary</i> (Finalist for Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards), <i>Mono No Aware</i> (Hugo Award winner), <i>The Waves</i> (Nebula Award finalist), <i>The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species</i> (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), <i>All the Flavors</i> (Nebula Award finalist), <i>The Litigation Master and the Monkey King</i> (Nebula Award finalist) ,and the most awarded story in the genre''s history, <i>The Paper Menagerie</i> (the only story ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).