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The Dark Forest - Remembrance Of Earth's Past: Book 2 (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Dark Forest - Remembrance Of Earth's Past: Book 2 (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen 1
R339 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R87 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future. The aliens' human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret.

This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.

The Three-Body Problem - Remembrance Of Earth's Past: Book 1 (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem - Remembrance Of Earth's Past: Book 1 (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Ken Liu 2
R305 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R33 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.

Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.

This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.

Death's End - Remembrance Of Earth's Past: Book 3 (Paperback): Cixin Liu Death's End - Remembrance Of Earth's Past: Book 3 (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Ken Liu 1
R349 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R85 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The bestselling conclusion to the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.

Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds.

Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

Three-Body Problem (Hardcover): Cixin Liu Three-Body Problem (Hardcover)
Cixin Liu
R2,024 Discovery Miles 20 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wandering Earth (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Wandering Earth (Paperback)
Cixin Liu
R540 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R55 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Death's End (Paperback): Cixin Liu Death's End (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Ken Liu 1
R535 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R230 (43%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cixin Liu's Yuanyuan's Bubbles - A Graphic Novel (Paperback, Flapped paperback): Cixin Liu Cixin Liu's Yuanyuan's Bubbles - A Graphic Novel (Paperback, Flapped paperback)
Cixin Liu; Adapted by Valerie Manguin; Illustrated by Steven Dupre
R451 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R43 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world science fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Liu's writing 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. Praise for Cixin Liu: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail 'A milestone in Chinese science-fiction' New York Times 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

To Hold Up the Sky (Paperback): Cixin Liu To Hold Up the Sky (Paperback)
Cixin Liu
R469 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R60 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Dark Forest (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Dark Forest (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen 1
R528 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R237 (45%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Three-Body Problem (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Ken Liu 1
R519 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R243 (47%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ball Lightning (Paperback): Cixin Liu Ball Lightning (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen 1
R518 R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Supernova Era (Paperback, Reissue): Cixin Liu The Supernova Era (Paperback, Reissue)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age' NPR 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged. 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 future, they may not be able to escape humanity's dark instincts...

Ball Lightning (Paperback, Reissue): Cixin Liu Ball Lightning (Paperback, Reissue)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics. Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war; a desperate nation facing certain military defeat. Conjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation, Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled readers of Cixin Liu's award-winning Three-Body trilogy. Praise for Cixin Liu: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail 'A milestone in Chinese science-fiction' New York Times 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

The Three-Body Problem Trilogy - Remembrance of Earth's Past (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem Trilogy - Remembrance of Earth's Past (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Ken Liu, Joel Martinsen
R884 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R62 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the ground floor while you still can' Esquire Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum. Available now in a single volume, including: 1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM 2 THE DARK FOREST 3 DEATH'S END Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-selling phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. Reviews for Cixin Liu: 'A milestone' New York Times 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail

The Wandering Earth (Paperback): Cixin Liu The Wandering Earth (Paperback)
Cixin Liu 1
R337 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R87 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM. The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai... Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China - taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019. Liu's writing 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'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.

Cixin Liu's Sea of Dreams - A Graphic Novel (Paperback, Flapped paperback): Cixin Liu Cixin Liu's Sea of Dreams - A Graphic Novel (Paperback, Flapped paperback)
Cixin Liu; Adapted by Jok; Illustrated by Jok
R453 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R44 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world science fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Liu's writing 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. Praise for Cixin Liu: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail 'A milestone in Chinese science-fiction' New York Times 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

Cixin Liu's Village Teacher - A Graphic Novel (Paperback, Flapped paperback): Cixin Liu Cixin Liu's Village Teacher - A Graphic Novel (Paperback, Flapped paperback)
Cixin Liu; Adapted by Zhang Xiaoyu; Illustrated by Zhang Xiaoyu
R459 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R42 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world science fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Liu's writing 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. Praise for Cixin Liu: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail 'A milestone in Chinese science-fiction' New York Times 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Paperback): Cixin Liu Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
R288 R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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?

Hold Up the Sky (Paperback): Cixin Liu Hold Up the Sky (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
R278 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R15 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

A View from the Stars: Cixin Liu A View from the Stars
Cixin Liu
R724 R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Save R184 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Three-Body Problem Boxed Set - (The Three-Body Problem, the Dark Forest, Death's End) (Paperback): Cixin Liu Three-Body Problem Boxed Set - (The Three-Body Problem, the Dark Forest, Death's End) (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Ken Liu
R1,655 R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Save R242 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lingua Cosmica - Science Fiction from around the World (Hardcover): Dale Knickerbocker Lingua Cosmica - Science Fiction from around the World (Hardcover)
Dale Knickerbocker; Contributions by Daina Chaviano, Jacek Dukaj, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Andreas Eschbach, …
R2,347 Discovery Miles 23 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daina Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable-if too-little-known-artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on Daina Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Angelica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilan, Vibeke Rutzou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.

The Dark Forest (Hardcover): Cixin Liu The Dark Forest (Hardcover)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen 1
R845 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R136 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Three-Body Problem (Hardcover): Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem (Hardcover)
Cixin Liu 1
R758 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R160 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

Lingua Cosmica - Science Fiction from around the World (Paperback): Dale Knickerbocker Lingua Cosmica - Science Fiction from around the World (Paperback)
Dale Knickerbocker; Contributions by Daina Chaviano, Jacek Dukaj, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Andreas Eschbach, …
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daina Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable-if too-little-known-artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on Daina Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Angelica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilan, Vibeke Rutzou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.

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