The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

by Ken Liu · 2016

A collection of speculative short fiction exploring identity, history, and relationships.

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Matt Mullenweg WordPress cofounder and Automattic founder

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Books I’ve Loved — Matt Mullenweg (#420), transcript

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The Tim Ferriss Show · 2020-05-13 · accessed 2026-10-01

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Explicit recommendation of the collection, not an isolated story or a translated Three-Body Problem volume.