Nova, 2020

«A fascinating thought experiment by the author of The Three-Body Problem.»
— The Guardian

Eight years ago, eight light-years away, a star died. Tonight, a high-energy supernova will finally reach Earth. The sky will blaze as the new star blooms, and within a year, every adult over the age of thirteen will be dead. Their chromosomes will have been irreversibly damaged.

Thus begins the countdown to a new world without adults.

Parents are now apprentices to their children, trying to pass on the knowledge they’ll need to keep the world running. But the last generation may not want to carry on their parents’ legacy. Even as they imagine a brighter future, they may not be able to escape humanity’s darkest instincts.

The great master Cixin Liu invites us to interpret this novel as a fable about new generations advancing through a world their elders cannot comprehend, and about humanity itself—adrift, infantilized, and alone in the universe, with no user manual to guide it.