Cixin Liu
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Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left to them. And in shaping the future however they want,...
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"From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger...
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The sun is about to perish, where will humans go from here? Once the backbone of human civilization, the sun is now a symbol of death and terror. So humans decided to abandon the sun that was dying and escape the solar system with the earth. The escape plan, which lasted more than a thousand years, was launched, stopping the earth and transforming the planet into Noah's Ark. For the survival of life, mankind at the same time abandoned the circulation...
7) 2018
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In 2018, with the advancement of genetic engineering, mankind has managed to prolong the human life-span to about 300 years. Meanwhile, the virtual internet world has grown to enormous proportions and solid currency is gradually being abolished,while virtual currency is on the rise. Moreover, virtual internet countries have now begun to apply petitions to join the U.N. In this ever-changing background, people remain in a turbulent state,while the...
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A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years"--Back cover.
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"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We’re as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future."—Cixin Liu, from the essay "Sci-Fi Fans"A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range...
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When a Tyrannosaurus rex suffers pain from meat trapped between its enormous teeth, a nearby colony of ants risks entering the great creature's maw to make their own repast from the remains of the dinosaur's most recent meal. From this humble beginning, over the course of millennia, a symbiotic civilization achieves amazing advances, reaching dizzying heights in countless endeavors scientific and social, facing dangers and exploiting opportunities...
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"Dai shang ta de yan jing" shi ke huan ju bo Liu Cixin de xiao shuo jing xuan ben. Ci shu xuan shou zuo zhe zai bu tong shi duan zhong chuang zuo de zhong duan pian xiao shuo, bao kuo "liu lang di qiu", "xiang cun jiao shi", "quan pin dai zu se gan rao" deng guang wei du zhe shu zhi de zhong pian. Zuo zhe cheng xi le gu dian zhu yi ke huan xiao shuo zhong jie zou jin zhang, qing jie sheng dong de te zheng, bing qie zai kan si ping shi zhuo pu de yu...
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"Ziemia. Okres kredy. Mrówki i dinozaury - stworzenia zupełnie niepodobne do siebie nawzajem, ale świetnie się uzupełniające - z biegiem czasu nawiązały ścisłą współpracę. Podstawą ich sojuszu były zwykłe usługi dentystyczne. Ale z tych skromnych początków wzięły się pismo, matematyka, komputery, fuzja jądrowa, antymateria, a nawet podróże kosmiczne - prawdziwa epoka cudów! Tak wspaniałe przedsięwzięcia mają jednak swoją...
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"One mysterious day, over twenty thousand otherworldly spaceships settle into stable orbit around Earth. Six months later, in a certain Asian village, a young girl named Zhihan discovers an old man who fell from the sky...but the strangeness doesn't end there. Soon, many more elderly drifters in peculiar outfits begin descending all over the world, claiming they created human civilization. Now it's humanity's turn to take care of their Progenitors--but...
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Cixin Liu nos lleva a través del tiempo y el espacio: desde una comunidad rural de montaña en 'The Village Teacher', donde los estudiantes de primaria deben usar la física para evitar una invasión alienígena; a las minas de carbón del norte de China en 'Fuego en la Tierra', donde la nueva tecnología salvará vidas o desencadenará un fuego que arderá durante siglos; a un tiempo muy parecido al nuestro, en la historia 'Mirror', cuando las computadoras...
18) Sea of dreams: 1
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Cixin Liu graphic novel volume 1
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The first in a new series of graphic novels from Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin and Talos Press. An annual ice sculpture festival draws the attention of an extraterrestrial visitor, who learns how to create such art and decides to use local resources to sculpt a piece in a gesture of goodwill. All the water in the ocean is sent to the stratosphere, where the ice sculptor uses splendid techniques to create crystal dominoes scattered by a giant...
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When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station.