Description
Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China's science fiction grandmaster. Members of the Earth Protection Force circle the planet's atmosphere, neutralising threats before they come close enough to cause harm. Most days the threats come in the form of asteroids or meteorites, inanimate bodies set on a trajectory thousands of years ago - but not today. Instead, a great crystal sent by a faraway alien intelligence has been intercepted. It carries a simple message: The Devourer approaches. The Devourer consumes planets, gorging itself on their inhabitants and plundering the land, only stopping once nothing living remains. Soon, the first Devourer ship enters the solar system and Earth's fate is sealed. Sealed, that is, unless humanity can fight - and win...
Humanity must rally together to save the Earth when its existence is threatened by a ruthless alien empire that consumes every planet it comes across.
About the Author
JD Morvan is a French comic book author. He has published more than 230 comics to date and been honoured a number of times at the world famous Angouleme International Comics Festival and by the Prix Saint-Michel. Weilin Yang is an artist from Taipei, Taiwan. She has received numerous awards for her experimental and conceptual fibre installations in Taiwan, and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions within Taiwan and internationally. Weilin Yang currently teaches in the Department of Material Arts and Design at Tainan National University of the Arts. 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.
Reviews
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 melange 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 *
The graphics are gritty and dark... A great epic story [that] really plays out well through the medium of a graphic novel * SF Crowsnest *
Some entertaining twists, turns and diversions... all good, cynical fun which many comic readers will enjoy. * ParSec Magazine *
Book Information
ISBN 9781803282824
Author Jean-David Morvan
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Humanity must rally together to save the Earth when its existence is threatened by a ruthless alien empire that consumes every planet it comes across.
About the Author
JD Morvan is a French comic book author. He has published more than 230 comics to date and been honoured a number of times at the world famous Angouleme International Comics Festival and by the Prix Saint-Michel. Weilin Yang is an artist from Taipei, Taiwan. She has received numerous awards for her experimental and conceptual fibre installations in Taiwan, and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions within Taiwan and internationally. Weilin Yang currently teaches in the Department of Material Arts and Design at Tainan National University of the Arts. 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.
Reviews
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 melange 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 *
The graphics are gritty and dark... A great epic story [that] really plays out well through the medium of a graphic novel * SF Crowsnest *
Some entertaining twists, turns and diversions... all good, cynical fun which many comic readers will enjoy. * ParSec Magazine *
Book Information
ISBN 9781803282824
Author Jean-David Morvan
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
