The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Ken Liu

“Ghost Days”—first published in Lightspeed, October 22, 2013. Copyright © 2013 Ken Liu.

“Maxwell’s Demon”—first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2012. Copyright © 2012 Ken Liu.

“The Reborn”—first published in Tor.com, January 29, 2014. Copyright © 2014 Ken Liu.

“Thoughts and Prayers”—first published in Slate, January 26, 2019. Copyright © 2019 Ken Liu.

“Byzantine Empathy”—first published in Twelve Tomorrows, May 25, 2018. Copyright © 2018 Ken Liu.

“The Gods Will Not Be Chained”—first published in The End is Nigh (Apocalypse Triptych Book 1), March 1, 2014. Copyright © 2014 Ken Liu.

“Staying Behind”—first published in Clarkesworld, October 1, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Ken Liu.

“Real Artists”—first published in TRSF, May 1, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Ken Liu.

“The Gods Will Not Be Slain”—first published in The End is Now (Apocalypse Triptych Book 2), September 1, 2014. Copyright © 2014 Ken Liu.

“Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Reindeer”—first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2011. Copyright © 2011 Ken Liu.

“The Gods Have Not Died in Vain”—first published in The End Has Come (Apocalypse Triptych Book 3), May 1, 2015. Copyright ©2015 Ken Liu.

“Memories of My Mother”—first published in Daily Science Fiction, March 19, 2012. Copyright © 2012 Ken Liu.

“Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts”—first published in Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, July 12, 2016. Copyright © 2016 Ken Liu.

“Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard”—first publication in this volume. Copyright © 2019 Ken Liu.

“A Chase Beyond the Storms”; an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, The Dandelion Dynasty, book three. Copyright © 2020 Ken Liu.

“The Hidden Girl”—first published in The Book of Swords, October 10, 2017. Copyright © 2017 Ken Liu.

“Seven Birthdays”—first published in Bridging Infinity, November 8, 2016. Copyright © 2016 Ken Liu.

“The Message”—first published in Interzone, September 2012. Copyright © 2012 Ken Liu.

“Cutting”—first published in Electric Velocipede, July 2012. Copyright © 2012 Ken Liu.

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Author photo by Lisa Tang Liu

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ISBN 978-1-9821-3403-7

ISBN 978-1-9821-3405-1 (ebook)