Cixin Liu

"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...

"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic...

Presents a collection of speculative science fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.

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...

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.

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...

"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...

"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...

"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...