Jordan Baker is a queer, adopted Vietnamese American raised in America’s wealthiest social circles. Nghi Vo’s stunning and subversive retelling of The Great Gatsby subtly infuses the world with magic. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (Tordotcom out June 1) Countries hurriedly build spaceships to save themselves, but the US is the only one to complete a ship in time, and the young narrator is chosen as the only Japanese member of its crew. “Mono No Aware,” my favorite piece in the collection, describes an Earth nearing destruction. In “The Literomancer,” a young girl with big dreams of becoming a bullfighter moves to China in the 1960s with her military family and has trouble adjusting. In it, a boy's Chinese mother makes him origami animals that move after she breathes into them. The title piece became the first work of fiction to win all three of SFF's major awards: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award. These melancholy and gorgeous short stories infused with Chinese history and culture have won many awards. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (Gallery/Saga Press)
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