The Wandering Earth
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The Wandering Earth
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Jeremy Domingo
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Narrated by:
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Jeremy Domingo
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Cixin Liu
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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 onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai...
Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.
Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China – taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019.
Liu's writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.
'Cixin's trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war' GUARDIAN.
'Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense' BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States.
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Critic Reviews
Complex and grandiose... this is a mind-altering and immersive experience'
A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts... exhilarating, mind-stretching'
Top-flight SF; smart, informative and engaging
Liu conjures up a genuine sense of wonder
Absolutely fantastic... The hardback is a thing of beauty and its translations are wonderful'
A wonderful collection and brings Cixin Liu's own unique flavour to the genre
Liu uses the exotic foreignness of alien environments to lure readers into an enchanted literary escape pod. The story's backdrop might be one of spectacular beauty or entropic devastation but the distancing effect its abnormality provides is always stirring
Short stories [...] allow an idea to be developed without getting bogged down with having to fill hundreds of pages and in this collection Cixin Liu has ably demonstrated the form... One of the most interesting books I have read'
Liu has continued to write and publish stories which share similar ideas and offer a vision for a better world through scientific fantasy
As with other Chinese works in the genre, it is tempting to draw parallels with the Communist regime, even when the writers themselves do not - and dare not - make those analogies explicit. For Western readers, Chinese sci-fi thus offers a window into the country's hopes and fears. Especially its fears
Beautifully written, the Sun hangs 'motionless in the sky, surrounded by a faint, dawn-like halo'. The ten other stories collected here are just as great
Earth-shattering... While built around a hard-science outlook that acknowledges the bleakness of humanity's chances, these stories also feature a lot of the heart and hopefulness that draw readers to science fiction in the first place. Liu conjures a sense of wonder while grounding his tales in well-wrought characters. This is a masterwork'
Take the idea of Australia becoming Humanity’s prison on earth when ET arrives(3BP) , or the idea where Anti matter weapons are used in stellar warfare(3BP) , or ants surviving a cataclysmic event (OAAD), or Antarctica being a point of global conflict (SNE) etc. These are the ideas that we see among many of the short stories in this compilation that reflect the crude versions of the same ideas that were refined and used in his later works. I enjoyed observing these tiny details in retrospect, and started appreciating Mr Liu more.
Coming to the stories, I’d like to start with the ones that I disliked the most. “For the benefit of Mankind”and “Mountain”. They were bad. And boring. And confusing in a way. I sleep-walked through them. Literally.
“The wandering earth” was an ambitious story that went downhill after a while. Had the potential to become a proper novelette, but now it’s just a mediocre short story.
“Sun of China” is a good A tier story with a good plot and a great emotional connection to the characters. Nice Hard science too. Journey of a man from being a normal farmer on earth to becoming a mirror farmer in space was really intriguing. The point of creating blue collar jobs in the space industry was something that I really thought about a lot.
“Curse 5.0” is my favourite. God tier story. Witty, quirky, fun and super chaotic. The author’s self insertion in the plot was a fun detail, I mean I’d definitely pay to read the 900,000 characters 3000 body problem! But yeah, the plot was sick. Computers, programming, AI and the parallel development of the Curse virus, and the ending OMG! Wild card character indeed!
“The Micro era”, again, was mid. Fun read, but mediocre at best. A normal sized human who left earth long ago comes back to earth, only to realise that the earth is now colonised by micro sized humans who have quick mood-swings ? Works on an idea level, sure, but the plot itself was doomed to be boring. It was Mr. Liu, so it was bearable. Optimistic ending though, cute.
“Devourer” is by far the best short story ever written by Cixin Liu, including the ones from “Hold up the sky” compilation. Giant space monsters coming to earth to steal our water and take us as livestocks? A Space war? An ancient connection? ANTS!? LOVED IT! Absolute cinema! Really, had a real potential to become a full length novel. If only watt-pad were still famous and people were still writing fan fictions. Huh.
“Taking care of God” attempted what seemed like a Devourer level plot, but it didn’t play out as expected and soon became more like a commentary about children not taking care of their parents in their old ages, and also about space colonisation. Fun read, a good A tier story.
“With her eyes” is a cute small story about space tourism, that quickly turns into a tragedy. Nicely written hard sci-fi plot with a proper length - not too long, not too short. Short and sweet, a perfect S tier. If only it’s source material, the bigger story of “Cannonball” was as good as this.
“Cannonball” is an interesting story, though the justification for the title comes at the very end. Very thoughtful ideas, new super solid state material that is super strong and super dense, a tunnel from one end of the planet to the other through earth’s core, the consequences of such a massive and almost fairy tale project - everything is cool. But the story somehow didn’t stick with me till the end. The ending was cool though, cannon balling people to the space? Sounds super fun! Mediocre overall, but great ideas nonetheless. B tier.
Overall, a solid 7 out of 10. Highly recommended to Cixin Liu’s fans out there.
Recommended to Cixin Liu’s fans
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