Author of the Month: Cixin Liu
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Our Author of the Month for March, Cixin Liu, was born in 1963 in Beijing. His debut novel, China 2185, earned him the soubriquet of the first Chinese cyberpunk writer, but it was 2007’s The Three-Body Problem which established his reputation in the West. The first part of the ‘Remembrance of Earth’s Past’ trilogy, it won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel. It’s an obvious way in to Liu’s intricate worldbuilding and sweeping narratives; alternatively, Ball Lightning and The Supernova Era are both electrifying stand-alone novels.
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Translated by Ken LiuRead the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses…
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Translated by Joel MartinsenRead the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.Imagine the universe…
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Translated by Ken LiuRead the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.Half a century after the…
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Translated by Joel Martinsen'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIREDOn his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to…
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Translated by Joel Martinsen'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age' NPR'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIREDEight years ago and eight light years away, a…
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A Financial Times Book of the YearFrom the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories – a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction.In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu…
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A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem.On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the…
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NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM.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…
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An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's - 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels.In the…
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An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's - 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels.The Sun is…
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An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's - 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels.Yuanyuan was…
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An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's - 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels.It was the…
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