# The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

4 Hacker News commenters recommended The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a beautiful short story, written by the translator of The Three-Body Problem, and say they loved it.

## Why people recommend it

- Beautiful short story (1 comments): "a beautiful short story by the Three Body Problem’s translator" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909371))
- Written by Three-Body translator (1 comments): "a beautiful short story by the Three Body Problem’s translator" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909371))
- Readers say they loved it (1 comments): "I loved the Paper Menagerie" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913059))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Last Question by Isaac Asimov](https://hackerapproved.com/p/last-question.md): 50 recommend
- [There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury](https://hackerapproved.com/p/there-will-come-soft-rains.md): 27 recommend
- [They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson](https://hackerapproved.com/p/they-re-made-out-of-meat.md): 17 recommend
- [Lena by qntm](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lena.md): 16 recommend
- [The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster](https://hackerapproved.com/p/machine-stops.md): 15 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Paper+Menagerie+by+Ken+Liu&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu", https://hackerapproved.com/p/paper-menagerie-and-other-stories/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).