The Collected Stories

Charlotte says about The Collected Stories of Cixin Liu:
I’m halfway through this formidable collection of short stories, and every page feels laden with thick, golden honey. From warping time and space travel, to the cosmic horror of a dying sun, every story spun feels undeniably rooted in reality. Cixin Liu is clearly a keen observer of our universe both in a macro and micro scale, and writes a convincingly human story time after time. This collection points out one irrefutable fact; our universe feels only as big as it does because of how diminutive we are in comparison. Once I’ve finished, this will be the biggest book I’ve ever read, but still I wish it was bigger.

The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem.

From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore our place in the universe, pitting the vastness of space against the fragility of humanity.

The scale of Liu’s imagination is immense, exploring both the infinite and the infinitesimal, the epic and the intimate. Here, machine intelligences create art or sow terror, humanity is annihilated or created anew, alien civilizations come bearing gifts, or they come in the cold logic of universal war. Solar systems are devoured, planets are turned into spaceships, and time is reversed.

With a physicist’s mind and a philosopher’s heart, Liu takes us to the boundaries of the cosmos and consciousness... but that’s just where his imagination begins.

STORIES INCLUDE: With Her Eyes, Contraction, End of the Microcosmos, Whale Song, The Wandering Earth, Fire in the Earth, The Micro-Era, Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming, The Village Teacher, The Messenger, Fibers, Sun of China, Devourer, Sea of Dreams, The Thinker, Destiny, Heard It in the Morning, Butterfly, Cannonball, Cloud of Poems, Glory and Dreams, Of Ants and Dinosaurs, Mirror, The Circle, For the Benefit of Mankind, Taking Care of God, Ode to Joy, Mountain, 2018-04-01, Moonlight, Curse 5.0, The Time Migration.