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. Obsessed by the search of eternal life, King Zheng must call upon an unlikely ally to create a system that will reveal that great secret.
Xavier Besse is a French comic book artist. He is a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and of the University of London, and of the China department of the Guimet Museum in Paris. He first began as an illustrator of illustrated books for children published by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, but after a few decisive encounters with writers, such as Jean-David Morvan and Olivier Supiot, he now devotes himself mainly to comics. His interest in Sinology inspired him to create Laowaï in 2017, a series of historical adventures that plunges readers into nineteenth-century Chinese history. Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem – the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.
A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation,
politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology
*George R.R. Martin*
Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was
immense'
*Barack Obama*
A milestone in Chinese science fiction
*New York Times*
A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever
plotting and quirky yet plausible characters... Exhilarating,
mind-stretching'
*TLS*
China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke
*New Yorker*
It's incredibly creative, smart, and might just get you interested
in mathematics, computing, and Chinese history
*Set The Tape*
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