NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too,consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet,humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai...Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China,his novel,The Three-Body Problem,was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories,including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story,The Wandering Earth,is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China - taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019. Liu's writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time,to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature,Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason,navigate and,above all,survive in a desolate cosmos.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781800248946Number of pages: 464Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'An evocative and powerful ode to Cornwall,its magic and mysteries,and the power to start over again'Nancy Barone,author of New Hope for the Little Cornish FarmhouseWildly imaginative,really interesting... The scope of it was immense'A milestone in Chinese science fictionA marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts,clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters... Exhilarating,mind-stretching'China's answer to Arthur C. ClarkeComplex and grandiose... this is a mind-altering and immersive experience'Top-flight SF; smart,informative and engagingLiu conjures up a genuine sense of wonderAbsolutely fantastic... The hardback is a thing of beauty and its translations are wonderful'A wonderful collection and brings Cixin Liu's own unique flavour to the genreLiu uses the exotic foreignness of alien environments to lure readers into an enchanted literary escape pod. The story's backdrop might be one of spectacular beauty or entropic devastation but the distancing effect its abnormality provides is always stirringShort stories (...) allow an idea to be developed without getting bogged down with having to fill hundreds of pages and in this collection Cixin Liu has ably demonstrated the form... One of the most interesting books I have read'Liu has continued to write and publish stories which share similar ideas and offer a vision for a better world through scientific fantasyAs with other Chinese works in the genre,it is tempting to draw parallels with the Communist regime,even when the writers themselves do not - and dare not - make those analogies explicit. For Western readers,Chinese sci-fi thus offers a window into the country's hopes and fears. Especially its fearsBeautifully written,the Sun hangs'motionless in the sky,surrounded by a faint,dawn-like halo'. The ten other stories collected here are just as greatEarth-shattering... While built around a hard-science outlook that acknowledges the bleakness of humanity's chances,these stories also feature a lot of the heart and hopefulness that draw readers to science fiction in the first place. Liu conjures a sense of wonder while grounding his tales in well-wrought characters. This is a masterwork'
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