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GIVEAWAY: Death’s End by Cixin Liu

By Rachel CordascoJuly 22, 201615 commentsgiveawayChina, Chinese, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu, Tor Books

This giveaway of one hardcover copy of Death’s End is open to residents of the US and Canada only. To enter, comment on this post and include your email address. The giveaway ends on Saturday, July 30, and the winner will be contacted shortly afterwards. Good luck! From Tor/Forge: “With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers

REVIEW: Cat Country by Lao She

By Rachel CordascoJuly 1, 2016reviewChina, Chinese, Lao She, Penguin Modern Classics, William A. Lyell

translated by William A. Lyell Penguin Modern Classics orig. 1932; December 1, 2015 240 pages Prophetic and profoundly disturbing, Cat Country is Lao She’s dark speculative satire about one man’s experience with a species of cat-people living on Mars. While on the surface, the story is about the wholesale corruption of Cat society (social,