I'm not sure why I have far more pity than it was called for after reading Ken Liu's 'paper Menagerie'

Indeed, it was incredible that it "win all three of SF's major awards: the Hugo, the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award. "

susan, June 16, 2016, 4:03a.m.

Hyphen: Taking a step back to think about your body of work as a whole, is there any one story that’s particularly meaningful to you?

KL: Oh, this is not difficult at all. The story that I'm most proud of is "The Man Who Ended History," a novella. It's a time-travel story of sorts about a technology that allows people in the present to witness the atrocities of the past. A historian and a physicist, a husband-wife team, use it to reveal the war crimes committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Northeast China during World War Two, They set off a political firestorm that ends in personal tragedy.

I wrote it in part to commemorate Iris Chang, who killed herself after writing about atrocities committed by the Japanese Empire during World War II, and also to explore the complexities of history and historiography.

-- end quote

Why Iris Chang committed suicide ? Why wasn't she strong enough to take in all that has happened? Atrocity kills with no regards on political sides, its chain reaction continues...

As it appears to me that this writer Ken is of the same make-up as 'Kid Poker'. His energy is spent to be proud of doing something, of showing something, of changing opinions of other people.

I'm sure it's out of good intentions. As good as it may be, our trying time needed more than just that.

susan, June 16, 2016, 3:58p.m.