The Earnest Mask Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science Fiction is named for the Greek

is named for the Greek historian’s assessment of why the Peloponnesian War broke out: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one

Jessica and Atul are in real danger

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the day before her scheduled cross-country move

personal account of life in the colony of Singapore during its belle epoch

The Earnest Mask Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science Fiction is named for the Greektranslated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li chun Lin In this Singapore Literature Prize winning collection of stories, an aging Japanese ex soldier, ignorant about the horrors of the Japanese Occupation, returns to Singapore for a nostalgic visit; a young boys sole contact with his father consists of a weekly meeting at McDonalds; and a hopeful employee tries to win over his tumour stricken boss with traditional Chinese medicine. Set against the