The Wandering Earth
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4.4 • 51 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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 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.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Climate change is the least worrying threat in this earth-shattering (literally) collection of 11 brilliant tales from Hugo Award winner Liu (The Three-Body Problem). In universes indifferent to humanity—filled with pragmatically minded, planet-stripping dinosaurs ("Devourer"), or where gods look to move back in with their offspring ("Taking Care of God")—survival depends on those people brave or noble enough to take the long view, even if it takes 2,500 years to reach a new solar system, as in the title story. Despite the hardships Liu throws at his characters, he cushions his rougher truths with a wry humor; the elder humans in "For the Benefit of Mankind" pilot spaceships that "looked like an intergalactic cold-relief capsules," and "Curse 5.0" pokes fun at Liu's own sci-fi ambitions. 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.
Customer Reviews
Well worth the read
A wonderful collection of stories by a remarkably talented observer, thinker, author.
Wacky ideas with poor execution
All told with endless expository monologues occasionally laced with CCP propaganda.
So new, wish they were all full stories
Each unique