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"The Grace of Kings is grand, mythic and epic, but Liu’s “silk-punk” world of trickster gods and giant horned whales is also a delight. "Liu’s combination of elements from China, Polynesia and beyond, told in an epic style, is the kind of Silk Road Fantasy that I’ve always wanted to read, and love all the more now that I have." "The Grace of Kings is a fantasy, with petty meddling gods, odd mechanized inventions, and a sense that mystical powers lurk around the corner. Liu’s ambitious work expertly blends mythology, history, military tactics, and technological innovation (airships and submarines). "The epic fantasy genre can only be enriched by more novels drawing from non-Western traditions. "Told in Liu’s graceful, intelligent, and literate prose, the novel is a sumptuous Epic feast."

It should rank amongst the genre's best works."

"The Grace of Kings is an ambitious, astonishing, and sublime work, one that both exemplifies and diverges from what one might think of when it comes to epic fantasy. "Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings - a magnificent fantasy epic. That is 99 An Ran We didn t smell the fragrance before, but here, even we smell some, does it mean that the source of the fragrance is here But, if the source of the fragrance is here, why is this building so strange Quiet, so quiet.He casually picked up the long knife beside him, and slashed hard.