Liu, Ken / Лю, Кен - Собрание сочинений (67 произведений) [2004-2022, fb2/epub, ENG]

The Legends of Luke Skywalker 2017, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-368-00124-3, Disney Lucasfilm Press

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories 2016, epub, ISBN: 978-1-4814-2437-0, Saga Press The Hidden Girl and Other Stories 2020, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-982134-05-1, Saga Press / Gallery

Algorithms for Love / Алгоритмы любви 2004, fb2 Single-Bit Error 2009, fb2 Tying Knots 2011, fb2 To the Stars 2011, fb2 (with Shelly Li) Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer 2011, fb2 The Caretaker 2011, fb2 Staying Behind 2011, fb2 The Countable / Исчисляемый 2011, fb2 Cutting 2012, fb2 Monkeys 2012, fb2 Celestial Bodies 2012, fb2 Pattern Recognition 2012, fb2 Always Here 2012, fb2 The Postman 2012, fb2 Love Thy Neighbors 2012, fb2 Effect and Cause 2013, fb2 The Plague / Мор 2013, fb2 The MSG Golem 2013, fb2 In the Loop 2014, fb2 The Clockwork Soldier 2014, fb2 Second Chance 2014, fb2 Reborn 2014, fb2 The Plantimal 2014, fb2 (with Mike Resnick) The Gods Will Not Be Chained / Богов не сковать цепями 2014, fb2 Knotting Grass, Holding Ring 2014, fb2 What I Assume You Shall Assume 2014, fb2 Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon 2014, fb2 Homo Floresiensis 2014, fb2 Running Shoes 2014, fb2 The Gods Will Not Be Slain / Боги не умирают 2014, fb2 Presence 2014, fb2 The Long Haul: From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 2014, fb2 Cassandra 2015, fb2 The Gods Have Not Died in Vain 2015, fb2 The Snow Train 2016, fb2 Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts 2016, fb2 Seven Birthdays 2016, fb2

A white bird hung still in the clear western sky and flapped its wings sporadically. Perhaps it was a raptor that had left its nest on one of the soaring peaks of the Er-Me Mountains a few miles away in search of prey. But this was not a good day for hunting—a raptor’s usual domain, this sun-parched section of the Porin Plains, had been taken over by people. Thousands of spectators lined both sides of the wide road out of Zudi; they paid the bird no attention. They were here for the Imperial Procession. They had gasped in awe as a fleet of giant Imperial airships passed overhead, shifting gracefully from one elegant formation to another. They had gawped in respectful silence as the heavy battle-carts rolled before them, thick bundles of ox sinew draping from the stone-throwing arms. They had praised the emperor’s foresight and generosity as his engineers sprayed the crowd with perfumed water from ice wagons, cool and refreshing in the hot sun and dusty air of northern Cocru. They had clapped and cheered the best dancers the six conquered Tiro states had to offer: five hundred Faca maidens who gyrated seductively in the veil dance, a sight once reserved for the royal court in Boama; four hundred Cocru sword twirlers who spun their blades into bright chrysanthemums of cold light that melded martial glory with lyrical grace; dozens of elegant, stately elephants from wild, sparsely settled Ecofi Island, painted with the colors of the Seven States—the largest male draped in the white flag of Xana, as one would expect, while the others wore the rainbow colors of the conquered lands. . . .

One of my earliest memories starts with me sobbing. I refused to be soothed no matter what Mom and Dad tried. Dad gave up and left the bedroom, but Mom took me into the kitchen and sat me down at the breakfast table. “Kan, kan,” she said, as she pulled a sheet of wrapping paper from on top of the fridge. For years, Mom carefully sliced open the wrappings around Christmas gifts and saved them on top of the fridge in a thick stack. She set the paper down, plain side facing up, and began to fold it. I stopped crying and watched her, curious. She turned the paper over and folded it again. She pleated, packed, tucked, rolled, and twisted until the paper disappeared between her cupped hands. Then she lifted the folded-up paper packet to her mouth and blew into it, like a balloon. “Kan,” she said, “laohu.” She put her hands down on the table and let go. A little paper tiger stood on the table, the size of two fists placed together. The skin of the tiger was the pattern on the wrapping paper, white background with red candy canes and green Christmas trees. . . .

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