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Nearly 1000 pages of gorgeous hardback with holographic foil, this is the perfect and definitive gift for those wanting to explore the wilder shores of the imagination that bought us THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM. This will be the go-to collection for Cixin Liu's short stories, featuring favourites such as 'The Wandering Earth', which was adapted into a feature film in 2019 remains China's fifth highest-grossing film of all time. Cixin Liu has established himself as one of the most influential science fiction authors of our time and with the release of Netflix's 3BP, the doors have opened to the exploration of his other works. 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.

The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem.

From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore our place in the universe, pitting the vastness of space against the fragility of humanity.

The scale of Liu’s imagination is immense, exploring both the infinite and the infinitesimal, the epic and the intimate. Here, machine intelligences create art or sow terror, humanity is annihilated or created anew, alien civilizations come bearing gifts, or they come in the cold logic of universal war. Solar systems are devoured, planets are turned into spaceships, and time is reversed.

With a physicist’s mind and a philosopher’s heart, Liu takes us to the boundaries of the cosmos and consciousness... but that’s just where his imagination begins.

STORIES INCLUDE:
With Her Eyes, Contraction, End of the Microcosmos, Whale Song, The Wandering Earth, Fire in the Earth, The Micro-Era, Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming, The Village Teacher, The Messenger, Fibers, Sun of China, Devourer, Sea of Dreams, The Thinker, Destiny, Heard It in the Morning, Butterfly, Cannonball, Cloud of Poems, Glory and Dreams, Of Ants and Dinosaurs, Mirror, The Circle, For the Benefit of Mankind, Taking Care of God, Ode to Joy, Mountain, 2018-04-01, Moonlight, Curse 5.0, The Time Migration.

The collected stories of internationally acclaimed science fiction author Cixin Liu. 'Liu conjures a sense of wonder while grounding his tales in well-wrought characters. This is a masterwork.' 'The passion in Liu's writing becomes an unstoppable force. These are the stories that really leap off the page and stick with you long after you’re done.' 'This audacious and ultimately optimistic early work will give Liu's English-reading fans a glimpse at his evolution as a writer and give any speculative fiction reader food for deep thought.'

PRAISE FOR CIXIN LIU:

'A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology' - George R.R. Martin

'Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense' - Barack Obama

'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' - The New Yorker

'SF in the grand style' Guardian

'Mind-altering and immersive'

The collected stories of internationally acclaimed science fiction author Cixin Liu.