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Wuhan (Paperback)
John Fletcher; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
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R340
R286
Discovery Miles 2 860
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A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan
stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. 'Fletcher
impresses in this searing debut... Fletcher makes all his
characters realistic, even if they only appear briefly, and excels
at portraying the horrors of war and the moral challenges it poses.
Fans of J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun will be riveted'
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 1937. CHINA IS AT WAR. Soldiers
of the Empire of Japan sweep through the country, killing and
displacing the millions who stand in their way. As vast swathes of
the country fall to the invaders, Wuhan, an industrial city in the
centre of China, is appointed wartime capital. While the rest of
the world looks the other way, the citizens of Wuhan stand alone
against a whirlwind of violence - transforming militarily,
educationally, medically and culturally. Their heroic efforts
halted the Japanese. Weaving together a multitude of narratives,
Wuhan is a historical fiction epic that pulls no punches: the
heart-in-mouth tale of a peasant family forced onto a thousand-mile
refugee death-march; the story of Lao She - China's greatest writer
- leaving his family in a war zone to assist with the propaganda
effort in Wuhan; the hellish battlefields of the Sino-Japanese war;
the approaching global conflict seen through a host of colourful
characters - from Chiang Kai-Shek, China's nationalist leader, to
Peter Fleming, a British journalist based in Wuhan and the
prototype for his younger brother Ian Fleming's James Bond.
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning
from the author of The Three-Body Problem. In a sunlit clearing in
central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late
Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization
were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch.
Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile
commodity - a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history.
That Earth should harbour not just one but two intelligent species
at the same time, defies the odds. That these species, so unalike -
and yet so complementary - should forge an alliance that kindled a
civilization defies logic. But time is endless and everything comes
to pass eventually... The alliance between ants and dinosaurs, was
of course, based on dentistry. Yet from such humble beginnings came
writing, mathematics, computers, fusion, antimatter and even space
travel - a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry
comes at a price - a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and
then by all those dependent on it. And yet the Dinosaurs refused to
heed the Ants' warning of impending ecological collapse, leaving
the Ant Federation facing a single dilemma: destroy the dinosaurs,
destroy a civilization... or perish alongside them?
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Hold Up the Sky (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
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R316
R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
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A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The
Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a
breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up
the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural
mountain community where elementary students must use physics to
prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where
new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will
burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when
superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in
the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the
very collapse of the universe itself. Written between 1999 and 2017
and never before published in English, these stories came into
being during decades of major change in China and will take you
across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's
most visionary writers. Experience the limitless and pure joy of
Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in this stunning collection.
Praise for Cixin Liu: 'Cixin's trilogy is SF in the grand style, a
galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war' GUARDIAN
'Wildly imaginative, really interesting ... The scope of it was
immense' BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States 'A
unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics
and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology' GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' NEW YORKER
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Wuhan (Hardcover)
John Fletcher; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
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R651
Discovery Miles 6 510
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Wuhan, 1937. China is at war, invaded by the Japanese Army, who
sweep through the country killing indiscriminately. As the capital
city falls, Wuhan takes its place and will become pivotal in
China's future. 1937. China is at war. Japanese soldiers sweep
through the country, killing and displacing the millions who stand
in their way. Nanjing has fallen, and Wuhan promoted in its place.
While the rest of the world looks the other way, Wuhan stands alone
against a whirlwind of violence which forced unprecedented cultural
and political change. This will be a moment that shapes China's
future. Weaving together a multitude of narratives, Wuhan is a
historical fiction epic that pulls no punches: the heart-in-mouth
story of a peasant family forced onto a thousand-mile refugee
death-march; the story of Lao She - the influential Chinese
novelist - who leaves his family in a war-zone to assist with the
propaganda effort in Wuhan; the hellish battlefields of the
Sino-Japanese war; the incipient global conflict seen through a
host of colourful characters - from Chiang Kai-Shek, China's
nationalist leader, to Peter Fleming, British journalist based in
Wuhan and a prototype for his younger brother Ian Fleming's James
Bond.
From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and Hugo
Award-winning author of The Three Body Problem, comes a new science
fiction masterpiece in Supernova Era. In those days, Earth was a
planet in space. In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth. On
this night, history as known to humanity came to an end. Eight
light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that
showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year,
everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown
begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the
knowledge they'll need to keep the world running. But the last
generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents'
world. And though they imagine a better, brighter world, they may
bring about a future so dark humanity won't survive.
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