The Wandering Earth [Paperback]

FromNew York Timesbestselling author Cixin Liu,The Wandering Earthis a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.

These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined.

With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.

CIXIN LIU is a prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award and a multiple winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and the Xing Yun Award (the Chinese Nebula). His novels include The Three-Body Problem series andBall Lightning.He lives with his family in Yangquan, Shanxi.

Liu conjures a sense of wonder while grounding his tales in well-wrought characters. This is a masterwork.Publishers Weekly, starred review

The passion in Liu's writing becomes an unstoppable force. These are the stories that really leap off the page and stick with you long after youre done.Tor.com

This audacious and ultimately optimistic early work will give Liu's English-reading fans a glimpse at his evolution as a writer and give any speculative fiction reader food for deep thought.Shelf AwarenessonSupernova Era

Praise for the Three-Body trilogy:

Wildly imaginative.President Barack Obama

The War of the Worldsfor the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.The Wall Street Journal

A breakthrough book . . . A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.George RlÃ0