![]() Including an introduction by Ken Liu and three essays exploring Chinese science fiction, this is a phenomenal collection of strange worlds, hypnotic landscapes and unbridled imagination. Invisible Planets is the title of a Chinese short story about different imaginary planets and their. In ' Taking Care of God' by Liu Cixin – author of The Three-Body Problem, the first translated novel to win the Hugo Award – a race of white-haired, white-robed beings arrive on Earth, claiming they are God, creators of everything who now want to spend their retirement years with us. Design a book for text of your own choice. Xia Jia's ' Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse' describes a post-apocalyptic world where machines have outlived the humans who engineered them. ![]() ![]() Hao Jingfang's Hugo-Award-Winning ' Folding Beijing' takes place in a near-future dystopia where the title city's buildings fold into and out of the earth, allowing three different strata of society to spend part of the day above ground. The book features illuminating discussions of microbes in space the dividing line between day and night exploding stars and light echoes fast radio bursts. Here are thirteen short stories from the new frontiers of Chinese science fiction, selected and translated by Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu. ![]()
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