Liu Cixin

<b>Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of <i>Game of Thrones</i>.</b><br/><br/>Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.<br/><br/>Earth has. Now the predators are coming.<br/><br/>Crossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.<br/><br/>This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown.<br/><br/>Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.<br/><br/>Praise for <i>The Three-Body Problem</i>:<br/>'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' <i><b>Wired</b></i><br/>'Immense' <b>Barack Obama</b><br/>'Unique' <b>George R.R. Martin</b><br/>'SF in the grand style' <b><i>Guardian</i></b><br/>'Mind-altering and immersive' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b><br/><b>Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel</b>

An omnibus edition of books 1-3 in China's best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy, comprising The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death's End. The trilogy weaves a web of physics, philosophy and history, taking the reader from the Cultural Revolution to the heat death of the universe.

<b>Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of <i>Game of Thrones</i>.</b> 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. Praise for <i>The Three-Body Problem</i>: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' <i><b>Wired</b></i> 'Immense' <b>Barack Obama</b> 'Unique' <b>George R.R. Martin</b> 'SF in the grand style' <b><i>Guardian</i></b> 'Mind-altering and immersive' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b> <b>Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel</b>

<b>'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We're as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future.' -</b> <b>Cixin Liu, from the essay 'Sci-Fi Fans'</b> <i>A View from the Stars </i>features a range of short works from the past three decades of <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.

<b>The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! </b><br/><br/><b>WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL </b><br/><br/><b>Over 1 million copies sold in North America</b><br/><br/><b>"A mind-bending epic."--<i>The New York Times</i></b><br/><b> - "War of the Worlds for the 21st century."--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br/><b> - "Fascinating."--<i>TIME</i></b><br/><b> - "Extraordinary."--<i>The New Yorker </i></b><br/><b>- "Wildly imaginative."--Barack Obama </b><br/><b>- "Provocative."--<i>Slate</i> </b><br/><b>- "A breakthrough book."--George R. R. Martin </b><br/><b>- "Impossible to put down."--<i>GQ</i> </b><br/><b>- "Absolutely mind-unfolding."--NPR </b><br/><b>- "You should be reading Liu Cixin."--<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br/><br/><b>The Three-Body Problem is the first novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.</b><br/><br/>Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

<b>The collected short stories of Cixin Liu, author of The Three Body Problem trilogy (now a major Netflix series). </b><br/><br/>The collection will comprise of stories from:<br/><br/>- The Wandering Earth<br/>- Hold Up the Sky<br/>- Of Ants and Dinosaurs<br/><br/>Collected in a beautiful hardback anthology for the first time.