The Collected Stories

Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!"Wildly imaginative." -President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyThis near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. 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 information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther BooksBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)

Der letzte Tag der Menschheit ist angebrochen. Eine gewaltige Strahlenwolke, ausgelöst durch eine Sternexplosion acht Jahre zuvor, wird schon bald alle Menschen über dreizehn Jahren töten. Seit acht Jahren läuft der Countdown, und seitdem werden die Kinder und Jugendlichen der Welt auf eine Zukunft allein vorbereitet. Einige von ihnen jedoch wollen gar nicht so weitermachen wie zuvor. Sie träumen von einer neuen, einer besseren Zukunft für sich und ihren Planeten. Dies ist ihre Geschichte ...

Das neue Buch vom Autor des Weltbestsellers »Die drei Sonnen«, jetzt als große TV-Serienverfilmung auf Netflix Mit seinem Weltbestseller »Die drei Sonnen« hat sich Cixin Liu in die Weltgeschichte der spekulativen Literatur eingeschrieben. Zusammen mit »Der dunkle Wald« und »Jenseits der Zeit« hat Lius Trisolaris-Trilogie den Horizont der Science-Fiction verschoben. In der vorliegenden Sammlung von Erzählungen, Essays und Interviews gibt Cixin Liu erstmals Einblick in die Entstehungsgeschichte seines literarischen Denkens. Was hat Liu zur Science-Fiction gebracht? Kann ein Schmetterling einen Krieg verhindern? Welche Spezies ist der wahre Herrscher des Erdballs? Was sehen wir, wenn wir von den Sternen her zur Erde zurückblicken? 19 Texte, in denen Cixin Liu die Weiten des kosmischen Erzählens durchmisst ... (lib)

Wang Miao ahnt, dass '3 Body Problem' viel mehr als nur ein Spiel ist. Um herauszufinden, was wirklich hinter den unbegreiflichen Phänomenen steht, die er beobachtet, muss er selbst tief in die Simulation einsteigen. Dabei begegnet er berühmten Figuren aus Geschichte und Mythologie und entdeckt nach und nach die Welt dieses fremdartigen Planeten, auf dem die Jahreszeiten außer Kontrolle sind und der von einem merkwürdigen Alien-Volk bewohnt wird...    '3 Body Problem' ist der erste Teil von 'Trisolaris', dem globalen Science- Fiction-Bestseller von Cixin Liu. Diese Adaption wird von Liu höchstpersönlich beaufsichtigt und setzt den Roman in 10 Bänden als hochkarätigen Manhua um.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES THE AWARD-WINNING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, MILLION-COPY-SELLING SCI-FI PHENOMENON Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum. Available now in one boxed set, including: 1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM 2 THE DARK FOREST 3 DEATH'S END'Extraordinary' NEW YORKER'SF in the grand style' GUARDIAN'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED'Wildly imaginative... immense' BARACK OBAMA'War of the Worlds for the 21st century' WALL STREET JOURNAL'A breakthrough book' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'The best kind of science fiction' KIM STANLEY ROBINSON'Concludes with sweep and scope and majesty' DAVID BRIN'Even what doesn't happen is epic' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS (lib)

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 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.Praise for Cixin Liu: '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'A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' NEW YORKER (lib)

Una impresionante colección de relatos del aclamado autor de El problema de los tres cuerpos. Ocho millones de lectores en todo el mundo.Libro del año del Financial Times. En Sostener el cielo, Cixin Liu nos lleva a través del tiempo y del espacio. De una comunidad rural en las montañas, donde unos estudiantes tienen que recurrir a la física para prevenir una invasión alienígena, a las minas de carbón de la región septentrional de China, en las que una nueva tecnología podría llegar a salvar vidas o a desatar un incendio que arderá durante siglos. De una época muy parecida a la nuestra, en la que ordenadores de supercuerdas predicen todos nuestros movimientos, a dentro de diez mil años, cuando la humanidad al fin haya conseguido empezar de cero. Y también hasta el mismísimo final del universo. Estos relatos, escritos entre 1999 y 2017 y que ahora aparecen publicados en castellano, vieron la luz durante décadas de grandes cambios en China y llevarán a los lectores a través del tiempo y del espacio, de la mano del escritor más visionario de la ciencia ficción del siglo XXI. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 physicas 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.