Cixin Liu
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 1
"Di qiu wang shi" san bu qu volume 1
The three-body problem volume 01
"Di qiu wang shi" san bu qu volume 1
The three-body problem volume 01
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Fitchburg - Fiction in Translation
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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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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 2
Three-body trilogy volume 2
"Di qiu wang shi" san bu qu volume 1
Three-Body Trilogy volume Book II
Three-body trilogy volume 2
"Di qiu wang shi" san bu qu volume 1
Three-Body Trilogy volume Book II
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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 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...
3) Death's end
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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 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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The Wandering Earth is a collection of short stories by Cixin Liu, China's most acclaimed contemporary science-fiction author. Unabashedly classic in the great tradition of Asimov and Clarke, Cixin Liu's science-fiction is firmly rooted in the cosmic. [most] literature has always left me with the impression of indulging an intense anthropocentric narcissism. ... In the world of literature, the Sun exists for no other reason than to illuminate the...
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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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La trama se desarrolla durante la Revolucion Cultural china, cuando un proyecto militar secreto manda senales al espacio con el objetivo de establecer contacto con alienigenas. Una civilizacion extraterrestre, en peligro de extincion, captura la senal y empieza a planear su entrada en la Tierra. En las siguientes decadas, establecen un primer contacto a traves de metodos insospechados: un inusual videojuego impregnado de filosofia e historia. A medida...
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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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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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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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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
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"La vista desde las estrellas recopila una gran variedad de textos cortos escritos en las últimas tres décadas por Cixin Liu, el mayor maestro de la ciencia ficción desde Isaac Asimov, gracias a su obra cumbre la Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos. Los ensayos y entrevistas que en él se incluyen explican algunas de sus experiencias como lector, escritor y amante de la ciencia ficción a lo largo de toda su vida." --Back cover.
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Yen Press
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2024.
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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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Chang Jiang wen yi chu ban she
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2023.
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This book is a collection of Liu Cixin's short and medium-length science fiction works, including such masterpieces as "Wandering Earth", "Chinese Sun", "Village Teacher", "Full Band Blocking Interference", "Supporting Humanity" and "Earth Cannon".--from Amazon