Cixin Liu
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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 multiple-award-winning phenomenon 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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2015.
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English
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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...
3) Death's end
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 3
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2016.
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English
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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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2021
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English
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All the years of human civilization represent an infinitesimal fraction of the time since life first burgeoned on planet Earth. How likely is it, then, in those great depths of time, that humanity alone benefitted from the spark of intelligence which gave rise to culture? This is the question posed by Hugo Award winner Cixin Liu, in his magisterial new short novel The Cretaceous Past. The answer he offers is unexpected, supposing an unlikely alliance...
5) Sobre hormigas y dinosaurios: Una fábula satírica. Una alegoría política. Una advertencia ecológica
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2022
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Español
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El autor de El problema de los tres cuerpos regresa a la ciencia ficción con una advertencia ecológica en forma de fábula: la historia de unos pobres dinosaurios que no escucharon los avisos de las hormigas sobre un inminente desastre ambiental.
La inteligencia es un destello fugaz en la larga noche de la historia cósmica. Que pueblen la tierra no una sino dos especies inteligentes al mismo tiempo pone en cuestión cualquier
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2022
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Español
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Una impresionante colección de relatos del aclamado autor de El problema de los tres cuerpos.
Ocho millones de lectores en todo el mundo.
Libro del año del Financial Times
En Sostener el cielo, Cixin Liu nos lleva a través del tiempo y del espacio. De una comunidad rural en las montañas, donde unos estudiantes tienen que recurrir a la física para prevenir una invasión
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2022
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Español
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Primera antología de relatos del autor chino que ha deslumbrado a cinco millones de lectores con El problema de los tres cuerpos.
El sol se está muriendo, y la Tierra, consumida por los últimos suspiros de esta estrella, también desaparecerá. Pero la humanidad, en lugar de abandonar el planeta, construye doce mil grandiosos motores de fusión para desorbitar la Tierra y propulsarla hacia Próxima Centauri en un viaje que
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"From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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384 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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...
11) Death's End
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
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623 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
12) Supernova era
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2019.
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348 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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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Pub. Date
2024.
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vii, 203 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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, writier, 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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[2018]
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xi, 592 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Science fiction writers have been using aliens as a metaphor for the Other for over one hundred years. There are stories of assimilation, or the failure to assimilate. Stories of resistance. Stories told from the alien viewpoint. In Not One of Us, over twenty bestselling and award-winning authors grapple with both the best and worst aspects of human nature in a collection of thorugh provoking and thrilling science fiction.
