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Liu Cixin

    June 23, 1963

    This author writes under the name Liu Cixin. Their work is highly regarded for its unique style and profound explorations of themes that shape humanity. Through their narratives, they delve into the complex interplay between science, technology, and human civilization. Their writing offers compelling insights into the future and our place within the cosmos.

    Liu Cixin
    The Wandering Earth
    The Village Teacher: Cixin Liu Graphic Novels #3
    Clarkesworld Issue 111
    The dark forest
    Death's End
    The Three-Body Problem Boxset
    • 'This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the ground floor while you still can' EsquireImagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators.Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location.This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY.Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum.Available now in a single volume, including:1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM 2 THE DARK FOREST 3 DEATH'S ENDRead the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-selling phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.Reviews for Cixin Liu: 'A milestone' New York Times 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail

      The Three-Body Problem Boxset
    • Death's End

      • 592 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      4.5(1593)Add rating

      Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

      Death's End
    • The dark forest

      • 550 pages
      • 20 hours of reading
      4.4(2535)Add rating

      Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.

      The dark forest
    • Clarkesworld Issue 111

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Featuring a blend of new and classic fiction, this award-winning magazine offers a diverse array of science fiction and fantasy stories each month. In addition to engaging narratives, readers can enjoy insightful articles, interviews with authors, and striking artwork, making it a comprehensive resource for genre enthusiasts.

      Clarkesworld Issue 111
    • The third installment of this graphic novel series showcases the collaboration between Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin and Talos Press. It continues to explore complex themes and imaginative storytelling, blending stunning visuals with thought-provoking narratives that challenge readers' perceptions of science and technology. This series promises to engage both fans of graphic novels and those interested in speculative fiction, offering a unique reading experience that expands on the rich universe established in the previous volumes.

      The Village Teacher: Cixin Liu Graphic Novels #3
    • The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai...Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China - taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019. 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.

      The Wandering Earth
    • In the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition, one man has dedicated his life to igniting a passion for Maths and science in the hearts of the peasant children around him. Now his life is coming to its end, he draws his students around him so he can impart knowledge on them to his final breath. All the while, in a far corner of outer space, fifty thousand light-years away, an interstellar war that has waged for thousands of years is coming to an end. The victor plans to perform the full-scale extermination of any low-intelligence lifeforms that remain in what is now his solar system. In order to gauge the intelligence of a planet, the victor devises a test -- posed to a group of lifeforms selected at random by a computer -- of science and mathematics. On a green-and-blue planet nestled in a spiral arm of the Milky Way, the computer's selection falls to a group of children, in the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition ...

      Village Teacher. A Graphic Novel
    • "The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai..."--Provided by publisher

      The Wandering Earth. A Graphic Novel
    • After a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal. During his investigation, Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that is the key to humanity's place in the cosmos and the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces.

      The Three Body Problem
    • The three-body problem

      • 434 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.1(11312)Add rating

      1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredicatable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.

      The three-body problem