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A review by ssmcquay
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
3.0
Rating any short story collection is difficult, but this one more so than most I've read simply due to the un-evenness of the quality of the stories.
At least 2/3 of the page count is made up of half dozen semi-connected stories exploring a post-apocalyptic world where humans thrive via uploaded consciousness and the Earth returns to an Edenic state. These stories are fine but they (accidentally?) acted as a distracting center of gravity. Was this collection meant to dwell so much on that theme? Given the title story, which didn't fall into that arch, I would assume not.
The second-to-last story, The Message, was incredible. As good as many in Liu's incredible Paper Menagerie collection. Ghost Days and The Hidden Girl were also very good.
At least 2/3 of the page count is made up of half dozen semi-connected stories exploring a post-apocalyptic world where humans thrive via uploaded consciousness and the Earth returns to an Edenic state. These stories are fine but they (accidentally?) acted as a distracting center of gravity. Was this collection meant to dwell so much on that theme? Given the title story, which didn't fall into that arch, I would assume not.
The second-to-last story, The Message, was incredible. As good as many in Liu's incredible Paper Menagerie collection. Ghost Days and The Hidden Girl were also very good.