Cixin Lius fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we ever could have imagined. The only way to survive is to find a way to propel Earth out of its orbit. The 10 stories in THE WANDERING EARTH, including five Chinese Galaxy Award winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts and its futures. If humanity leaves Earth behind, our continued existence is impossible. The novella focuses on humanitys efforts to move the Earth in order to avert. Spaceships stand no chance in open space, and the nearest inhabitable planet lies hundreds of thousands of years away. The Wandering Earth is a science fiction novella by Chinese writer Cixin Liu. How to reach our new solar system is more difficult. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body. It is the star closest to our own, a mere 4.3 light-years away. Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. Reaching a consensus on a destination has been easy: the only viable target is Proxima Centauri. Interstellar emigration is the only way out. Helium will soon permeate its core, triggering a violent explosion, and its burning-hot diameter will increase until it has consumed everything that stands in its way.Īs long as we remain in its path, humanity stands no chance. Clarke’ ( New Yorker) – award-winning stories into graphic novels. To survive, humanity constructs massive engines on Earth that keep. The life-bringing sun is on track to have a catastrophic helium flash within the next four hundred years, which would wipe the Earth from the universe entirely. 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. The second in a new series of graphic novels from Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin and Talos Press.

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