Ken Liu is hands down the master of short stories and of science fiction. This is a bewildering, beautiful and sensitive collection of stories, written for intellectuals, nerds, parents, people who love the natural, people who worship the scientific, for old souls and new minds. The stories touch on everything from Chinese myths to the recreating of the entirety of human possibility by an uploaded singularity-enhanced psyche.
I love the fact that Ken Liu constructed an interwoven web of stories, adding colour to the same world, based on our obsession with space travel, AI, human condition, terraformation, immortality, memory, legacy. I was touched and this is also how you bring awareness to current affairs such as climate change, imbalance of wealth and dwindling resources.
This is a must read and to be honest, most modern readers would benefit from an injection of intelligence after this book (or even in order to understand it).