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 multple-award-winning phenemonenon 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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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,...
3) Death's end
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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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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. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen's quest provides a purpose for his lonely life, his reasons for chasing this elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists...
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Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories – a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction.
Stories included are:
1. The Village Teacher.
2. The Time Migration.
3. 2018-04-01.
4. Fire in the Earth.
5. Contraction.
6. Mirror.
7. Ode to Joy.
8. Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming.
9. Sea of Dreams.
10. Cloud of Poems.
11. The Thinker.
2020...
Stories included are:
1. The Village Teacher.
2. The Time Migration.
3. 2018-04-01.
4. Fire in the Earth.
5. Contraction.
6. Mirror.
7. Ode to Joy.
8. Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming.
9. Sea of Dreams.
10. Cloud of Poems.
11. The Thinker.
2020...
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Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
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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 multiple-award-winning phenomenon 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 subatomic...