A review by farenmaddox
Invisible Planets by Ken Liu

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

2.0

There were some truly stellar stand-out stories in here that I absolutely loved (Folding Beijing, Taking Care of God, and A Hundred Ghosts Parade come to mind but there were a few other good ones) but some of them were really just not great (The Flower of Shazui in particular). I like enough of the collected stories to be glad to have bought/read the book. But honestly, as a collection it's just really bad. I can understand wanting to showcase the best of Chinese sci-fi, but man, at least unify them with a theme or a mood or something. This collection gave me whiplash.