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About Cixin Liu
His works have received wide acclaim on account of their powerful atmosphere and brilliant imagination. Liu Cixin's stories successfully combine the exceedingly ephemeral with hard reality, all the while focussing on revealing the essence and aesthetics of science. He has endeavoured to create a distinctly Chinese style of science fiction. Liu Cixin is a member of the China Writers' Association and the Shanxi Writers' Association.
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“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” – Wall Street Journal
The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
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 signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Other Books
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)
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"Wildly imaginative." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy
This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author.
In The 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 particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Other Books
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)
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Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!
“The War of the Worlds for the 21st century… packed with a sense of wonder.” – Wall Street Journal
The New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's bestselling and beloved science fiction writer.
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to read China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award.
Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death's End. 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 daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Other Books
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
This discounted ebundle of the Three-Body Trilogy includes: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End
"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." —President Barack Obama
The Three-Body trilogy by New York Times bestseller Cixin Liu keeps you riveted with high-octane action, political intrigue, and unexpected twists in this saga of first contact with the extraterrestrial Trisolaris.
The Three-Body Problem — An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
The Dark Forest — In The Dark Forest, the aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information remains. Humanity responds with the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
Death’s End — Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
Other Books by Cixin Liu (Translated to English)
The Remembrance of Earth's Past
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Other Books
Ball Lightning
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From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past.
In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physicas to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself.
Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's most visionary writers.
Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in this stunning collection.
Stories included are:
Contraction
Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming
The Village Teacher
Fire in the Earth
Time Migration
Ode to joy
Cloud of Poems
Mirror
Sea of Dreams
Cloud of Poems
The Thinker
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.
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 life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge.
"Wildly imaginative."—Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy
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#3 Death's End
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From science fiction legend Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem, comes a vision of the future that reads “like Ursula K Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age.” (NPR).
In those days, Earth was a planet in space.
In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth.
On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end.
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, will the children usher in an era of bright beginnings or final mistakes?
"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." -- Shelf Awareness
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El primer libro de la «Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos», el fenómeno editorial chino que ha conquistado al mundo y ha ganado el premio Hugo 2015 a la mejor novela.
El problema de los tres cuerpos es la primera novela no escrita originariamente en inglés galardonada con el premio Hugo, el Nobel del género de la ciencia ficción.
Su autor, Cixin Liu, ha sido considerado el gran descubrimiento del género y es capaz de vender cuatro millones de ejemplares solamente en China y de hacerse con prescriptores de la talla de Barack Obama, quien seleccionó El problema de los tres cuerpos como una de sus lecturas navideñas de 2015, y Mark Zuckerberg, que lo convirtió en la primera novela de su club de lectura.
El público y la crítica de los cinco continentes se rinden ante esta obra maestra, enormemente visionaria, sobre el papel de la ciencia en nuestras sociedades, que nos ayuda a comprender el pasado y el futuro de China, pero también, leída en clave geopolítica, del mundo en que vivimos.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Una novela reveladora... No te la pierdas.»
Kirkus Reviews
«Una ambiciosa obra de ciencia ficción con una imaginación salvaje.»
Nature Physics
«China lanza una invasión sci-fi con la publicación de este libro.»
The Wall Street Journal
«Una obra en el más puro estilo del gran maestro Arthur C. Clarke.»
The New York Times
«Un gran merecedor del premio Hugo, que abre la ciencia ficción china almundo.»
Science
La esperada continuación de El problema de los tres cuerpos, el mejor libro de ciencia ficción y fantasía de 2016 según El Periódico, y uno de los diez mejores libros de ficción de 2016 según Playground.
Ahora la Tierra tiene cuatro siglos para defenderse de lo inevitable: la llegada de los Trisolaris. Los colaboracionistas humanos pueden haber sido derrotados, pero los sofones permiten a los extraterrestres acceder a la información de la humanidad, dejando al descubierto toda estrategia de defensa.
Solo la mente humana sigue siendo un secreto, y ahora también la clave del acuciante plan que urdirán tres estadistas, un científico y un sociólogo.
«La trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos» es el gran fenómeno editorial que ha conquistado Occidente tras vender cuatro millones de ejemplares solamente en China y haberse hecho con prescriptores de la talla de Barack Obama, George R.R. Martin o Mark Zuckeberg.
Cixin Liu se considera el gran descubrimiento de la ciencia ficción internacional tras alzarse con el Premio Hugo 2015 a la mejor novela, siendo la primera vez que una obra no escrita originariamente en inglés recibe este auténtico Nobel del género.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Increíblemente imaginativa, realmente interesante.»
Barack Obama
«Un descubrimiento. Una mezcla única de especulación científica y filosófica, de teoría de la conspiración y cosmología.»
George R.R. Martin
«Una tregua divertida a todos esos libros sobre economía y ciencias sociales que he estado leyendo últimamente.»
Mark Zuckeberg
El desenlace de la magistral trilogía de ciencia ficción con 4 millones de lectores en China, convertida en un best seller de The New York Times y de Spiegel.
Tras El problema de los tres cuerpos y El bosque oscuro, la tensa espera de la humanidad concluye ahora con un último episodio, tan extraordinario como los anteriores, lleno de ideas electrizantes y una calidad de obra maestra.
Ha pasado medio siglo de la batalla del Día del Juicio Final y la Tierra goza de una prosperidad sin precedentes gracias al conocimiento transferido por Trisolaris. Mientras la ciencia humana avance y los trisolarianos adopten la cultura terrícola, ambas civilizaciones podrán convivir sin temor a ser destruidas. Pero con la paz la humanidad se ha vuelto autocomplaciente. Después de una larga hibernación, Cheng Xin, una ingeniera aeroespacial de comienzos del siglo XX, despierta en esta nueva era. Su mera presencia, sumada a cierta información sobre un proyecto olvidado desde el principio de la Crisis Trisolariana, podría alterar el frágil equilibrio entre ambos mundos... ¿Alcanzará el ser humano las estrellas, o morirá en su cuna?
El fin de la muerte, galardonado con el Premio Locus 2017 y nominado al Hugo 2017, es el desenlace de la magistral trilogía de ciencia ficción china que ha conquistado a cinco millones de lectores en todo el mundo.
Cixin Liu es el escritor de ciencia ficción más relevante de China, capaz de llevarse el Premio Hugo 2015 a la mejor novela, deslumbrar a lectores y medios de los cinco continentes y conseguir prescriptores de la talla de Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg o George R.R. Martin.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Increíblemente imaginativo, realmente interesante.»
Barack Obama
«Un hallazgo. Una mezcla única de especulación científica y filosófica, de teoría de la conspiración y cosmología.»
George R.R. Martin
«Lugares comunes pero enrarecidos, exótico déjà vu con sorpresas que no recuerdan ni a nadie ni a nada.»
Babelia
«Más de mil páginas de vértigo metafísico garantizado.»
El Mundo
«Una obra en el más puro estilo del gran maestro Arthur C. Clarke.»
The New York Times
«Una ambiciosa obra de ciencia ficción con una imaginación salvaje.»
Nature Physics
«La novela que ha descubierto al mundo la ciencia ficción china.»
El Periódico de Catalunya
«El fenómeno editorial chino y Premio Hugo 2015.»
La Vanguardia
«Una tregua divertida a todos esos libros sobre economía y ciencias sociales que he estado leyendo últimamente.»
Mark Zuckerberg
«Su acertada descripción de los movimientos geopolíticos de las grandes potencias, su análisis de las posibilidades de la ciencia y su trama de thriller han sido aclamados por personalidades como Barack Obama o Mark Zuckerberg.
In »Die wandernde Erde« sind elf meisterhafte und preisgekrönte Erzählungen vom Autor des Sensationsromans »Die drei Sonnen« versammelt.
China, Ende der 1960er-Jahre: Während im ganzen Land die Kulturrevolution tobt, beginnt eine kleine Gruppe von Astrophysikern, Politkommissaren und Ingenieuren ein streng geheimes Forschungsprojekt. Ihre Aufgabe: Signale ins All zu senden und noch vor allen anderen Nationen Kontakt mit Außerirdischen aufzunehmen. Fünfzig Jahre später wird diese Vision Wirklichkeit – auf eine so erschreckende, umwälzende und globale Weise, dass dieser Kontakt das Schicksal der Menschheit für immer verändern wird.
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