A review by catslippers
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu

4.0

After reading Ken Liu's first short story collection, The Paper Menagerie, I followed him into the world of Chinese Sci-Fi by way of The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu. Broken Stars is Ken Liu's second volume of Chinese SF in translation, but I read it before Invisible Planets. I was fascinated to see the breadth of attitudes and approaches towards technology and the future that in many ways is an embodiment of everything I love about science fiction as a genre. While some of the stories were in my opinion, weaker or rough around the edges, Liu mentions that he is more interested in stories that do one thing very well, rather than stories that do many things not as well. I would agree with that, and had a fantastic time reading through this book.