The opening installment of China's best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy.
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' TLS.
'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' The New Yorker.
'Even what doesn't happen is epic' London Review of Books.
'Cixin Liu began his massively ambitious trilogy with this dazzling
work of SF ... Hard to sum up in a few short lines, but one you
read it you'll be doing your best to tell everyone else to follow
suit' SciFiNow.
'This is the first of a trilogy that begins in the Sixties and
reaches a shattering climax 18,906,416 years later, by which time
the war for Earth has, quite literally, acquired new dimensions'
The Times.
'The most amazing story. You learn so much' Daily Mirror.
'If you like science fiction, this is one of the best science
fiction stories written ever' Ben Miller.
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