Invisible Planets
Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short sp...
THREEBODY PROBLEM
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu's The Butterfly
Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China's science fiction grandmaster. Bombs fall through ...
Cixin Liu's The Circle
Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China's science fiction grandmaster. Xianyang, capital o...
The Collected Short Stories
The collected short stories of internationally acclaimed science fiction author Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu's For the Benefit of Mankind
Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China's science fiction grandmaster. Earth. Our home. Th...
Cixin Liu's Yuanyuan's Bubbles
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. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels. Yuanyuan was five ...
Cixin Liu's The Devourer
Cixin Liu's The Devourer
Artificial Intelligence Revolution
The co-founder of Baidu explains how AI will transform human livelihood, from our economy and financial systems down to our daily lives. Written by Baidu cofounder Robin Li and prefaced by award-winning sci-fi writer Cixin Liu (author ofThe Three-...
Hold Up the Sky
A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem , a collection of award-winning short stories ? a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time...
Ball Lightning
'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his li...
Redemption of Time
Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Time extends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. Death is no release for Yun Tianming - merely the first step on a journey that will place him on the frontline of...
Supernova Era
'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age' NPR 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died.Tonight, a supernova tsunami ...
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated 'Folding Beijing' by Hao Jingfang, add up to a strong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards, some have garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year's Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu's personal favorites. To round out the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors, plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Anyone with an interest in international science fiction will find Invisible Planets an indispensable addition to their collection. For
Zadacha trekh tel
Kitajskaja premija 'Galaktika', amerikanskaja premija 'Khjugo', nemetskaja premija Kurda Lassvitsa, ispanskaja premija Ignotusa, japonskaja 'Premija Sejun', italjanskaja premija 'Italija', polskaja premija 'Nova fantastika', russkaja premija 'Kniga goda'. Tri ekranizatsii v Kitae i SSHA. Kniga desjatiletija po versii NPR. Kogda oni pridut - Zemlja vnov stanet garmonichnym i protsvetajuschim mirom... Kitaj okhvachen khaosom 'kulturnoj revoljutsii'. Nesmotrja na eto, v khode sekretnogo voennogo proekta, v kosmos otpravljalis signaly s tselju obnaruzhenija inoplanetnogo razuma. Proekt zavershilsja uspekhom, i odin iz signalov prinjala inaja tsivilizatsija. Vot tolko chuzhie nakhodjatsja na kraju gibeli i Zemlja kazhetsja idealnoj dlja vtorzhenija. V ozhidanii pribytija 'gostej' chast chelovechestva gotova sdat inoplanetjanam Zemlju, chtoby te izmenili porochnyj mir k luchshemu. Drugie zhe gotovy borotsja protiv vtorzhenija do poslednego. 'Eto novoe slovo v zhanre nauchnoj fantastiki... I
Cixin Liu's The Village Teacher
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. Clarke' (New Yorker) – award-winning stories into graphic novels. In the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition, one man has dedicated his life to igniting a passion for maths and science in the hearts of the peasant children around him. Now his life is coming to its end, he draws his students around him so he can impart knowledge on them to his final breath. All the while, in a far corner of outer space, fifty thousand light-years away, an interstellar war that has waged for thousands of years is coming to an end. The victor plans to perform the full-scale extermination of any low-intelligence lifeforms that remain in what is now his solar system. In order to gauge the intelligence of a planet, the victor devises a test – posed to a group of lifeforms selected at random by a computer – of science and
Zadacha trekh tel. Kniga 2
Suschestvuet li fizika na samom dele? Ili eto prosto esche odna religija? Posle togo kak eksperimenty na uskoriteljakh chastits pokazali protivorechivye rezultaty, odni uchenye nachali zadavatsja voprosami, a drugie v polnom otchajanii sovershili samoubijstvo. Pytajas vyjasnit pravdu o cherede strannykh sobytij v nauchnom mire, Van Mjao po prosbe politsii vstupaet v soobschestvo 'Rubezhi nauki'. S tekh por, kak on vvjazalsja v rassledovanie, emu nachali mereschitsja tsifry s obratnym otschetom. I esli dogadka fizika verna, to otschet - vremja, kotoroe ostalos do unichtozhenija chelovechestva. Za otvetami Van Mjao obraschaetsja k Shen Jujfej - odnoj iz kljuchevykh figur 'Rubezhej nauki'. Vot tolko vzamen na sotrudnichestvo ona trebuet zakryt proekt po razrabotke nanometeriala, nad kotorym uchenyj trudilsja dolgie gody...
Three-Body Problem
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. ...
The Dark Forest
The continuation of a tour de force near-future adventure from China's bestselling and most beloved science fiction writer
Dark Forest
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: 'A mind-bending epic.'--The New York Times - 'War of the Worlds for the 21st century.'--The Wall Street Journal - 'Fascinating.'--TIME - 'Extraordinary.'--The New Yorker - 'Wildly imaginative.'--Barack Obama - 'Provocative.'--Slate - 'A breakthrough book.'--George R. R. Martin - 'Impossible to put down.'--GQ - 'Absolutely mind-unfolding.'--NPR - 'You should be reading Liu Cixin.'--The Washington Post The Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. 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
To Hold Up the Sky
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 physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives or 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
Three-Body Problem Set
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America 'A mind-bending epic.'--The New York Times - 'War of the Worlds for the 21st century.'--The Wall Street Journal - 'Fascinating.'--TIME - 'Extraordinary.'--The New Yorker - 'Wildly imaginative.'--Barack Obama - 'Provocative.'--Slate - 'A breakthrough book.'--George R. R. Martin - 'Impossible to put down.'--GQ - 'Absolutely mind-unfolding.'--NPR - 'You should be reading Liu Cixin.'--The Washington Post The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series--The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End--by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens--and succeeds. Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth. News of the
The Wandering Earth
The Wandering Earth
Cixin Liu's The Wandering Earth
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. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels. The Sun is dying. ...
Of Ants and Dinosaurs
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermat...
The Three-body Problem
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. Praise for The Three-Body Problem: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel
Wandering Earth
NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM. 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 ...
The Supernova Era
Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died.Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged.And so the countdown begins.Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running.But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world. And though they imagine a better, brighter future, they may not be able to escape humanity's dark instincts...
Hold Up The Sky
In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics 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.
Der dunkle Wald
Der dunkle Wald
Ball Lightning
On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics.Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war; a desperate nation facing certain military defeat.Conjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation, Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled readers of Cixin Liu's award-winning Three-Body trilogy.
Cixin Liu's Sea of Dreams
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. Clarke' (New Yorker) - award-winning stories into graphic novels. It was the Ice and...
Death's End (Kinesiska)
Death's End (Kinesiska)