Description
Children inherit the Earth when radiation from a supernova kills all the adults: some forge an imitation of their parent's society; others devolve into savagery and violence. From Cixin Liu the award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem.
About the Author
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. Joel Martinsen is the translator of The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu and (with Alice Xin Liu) of The Problem With Me, a collection of essays by Han Han. His translations of short fiction have appeared in Pathlight, Chutzpah, and Words Without Borders. He lives in Beijing.
Reviews
A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology -- George R.R. Martin
A marvellous melange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters * TLS *
Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense' -- Barack Obama
China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke * New Yorker *
A milestone in Chinese science fiction * New York Times *
Book Information
ISBN 9781800248960
Author Cixin Liu
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC