Cixin Liu
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"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...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"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 multiple-award-winning phenomenon 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...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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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. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely...
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2021.
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English
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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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Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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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,...
7) Death's end
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It was also named a finalist for the Nebula Award, making it the first translated novel to be nominated for a major SF award since...
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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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English
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From the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End comes a story about unborn memories.
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking listeners got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.
The Weight of Memories is a Tor.com Original story.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights...
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Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A collection of personal essays, insightful interviews and genre-bending short stories from the popular and Galaxy Award-winning science fiction writer from the People's Republic of China highlight his creative journey across three decades.
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Publisher
Nova
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
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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...
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Chongqing chu ban she
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文(繁體)
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"This last volume is more like a fantasy story. Human beings are finally able to see the dark side of the universe, due to the war against the Three-Body civilization, for the first time. The earth's civilization is like a terrified child, who is not looking for friends anymore, shivering in the dark night. No one has ever seen a real star war, for it is impossible to survive after seeing it. The methods and weapons of a space war are unimaginable...
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The Myth Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文(繁體)
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As the sun is dying out, people all around the world build giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500-year journey comes with unexpected dangers, and in order to save humanity, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth fight hard for the survival of humankind.
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Publisher
Talos
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition, a man dedicates his life to igniting a passion for science and culture in children's hearts. As his life draws to an end, he uses his dying breaths to impart knowledge on others. Fifty thousand lightyears away, in the depths of outer space, an interstellar war that has lasted for twenty thousand years draws to an end. In order to preserve the Milky Way's many civilizations, the...
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Talos Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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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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Talos
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"The life-bringing sun is on track to have a catastrophic helium flash within the next four hundred years. To survive, humanity constructs massive engines on Earth that keep running nonstop, gradually taking Earth out of the Sun's orbit. People who believe that civilization has already been destroyed form a rebel faction, carrying out a ruthless execution of those who still believe that the Sun will undergo a helium flash"--
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Publisher
Talos
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Ever since she was a child, Yuanyuan always dreamed of blowing big bubbles. But her father worries about her fascination--he wants Yuanyuan to be as responsible and devoted to a calling as her mother was. As an adult, Yuanyuan creates a multimillion-dollar business out of the technology she developed for her doctoral thesis. But she still dreams of blowing the biggest bubble she can. When his daughter uses her high-tech methods to blow a bubble big...
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A Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The stories span the range from short-shorts to novellas, and evoke every hue on the emotional spectrum. Besides stories firmly entrenched in subgenres familiar to Western SFF readers such as hard SF, cyberpunk, science fantasy, and space opera, the anthology also includes stories that showcase deeper ties to Chinese culture: alternate Chinese history, chuanyue time travel, satire with historical and contemporary allusions that are likely unknown...
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Science fiction writers have been using aliens as a metaphor for the Other for over one hundred years. There are stories of assimilation, or the failure to assimilate. Stories of resistance. Stories told from the alien viewpoint. In Not One of Us, over twenty bestselling and award-winning authors grapple with both the best and worst aspects of human nature in a collection of thorugh provoking and thrilling science fiction." --