Ten short stories from Cixin Liu, the award-winning author of the The Three-Body Problem, take you from Earth to the edge of the Universe and back again.
Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem - the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.
'Complex and grandiose ... this is a mind-altering and immersive
experience' * Daily Mail *
'A marvellous melange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts ...
exhilarating, mind-stretching' * TLS *
'Top-flight SF; smart, informative and engaging' * SFX *
'Liu conjures up a genuine sense of wonder' * SFX *
'Absolutely fantastic ... The hardback is a thing of beauty and its
translations are wonderful' * For Winter Nights *
'A wonderful collection and brings Cixin Liu's own unique flavour
to the genre' * SF Crows Nest *
'Liu 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 stirring' *
Big Issue *
'Short 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' * Concatenation *
'Liu has continued to write and publish stories which share similar
ideas and offer a vision for a better world through scientific
fantasy' * New European. *
'As 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 fears' * Economist. *
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