Hold Up the Sky

Hold Up the Sky
Various, Cixin Liu
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 416pg
1 Apr 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781838937621
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A collection of award-winning hard science fiction short stories. From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. 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. Stories included are: 1. The Village Teacher. 2. The Time Migration. 3. 2018-04-01. 4. Fire in the Earth. 5. Contraction. 6. Mirror. 7. Ode to Joy. 8. Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming. 9. Sea of Dreams. 10. Cloud of Poems. 11. The Thinker. ' Cixin' s trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war' GUARDIAN . ' Wildly imaginative, really interesting . . . The scope of it was immense' BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States.
PRAISE FOR CIXIN LIU: ' A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology' George R. R. Martin. ' A marvellous melange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters' TLS. ' Wildly imaginative, really interesting . . . The scope of it was immense' Barack Obama. ' China' s answer to Arthur C. Clarke' The New Yorker. ' A milestone in Chinese science fiction' New York Times.
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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781838937621
Published: 1 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 416

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