Nova 2019

First short story collection by the Chinese author who dazzled five million readers with The Three-Body Problem.

The sun is dying, and Earth, consumed by the last breaths of this star, will also vanish. But instead of abandoning the planet, humanity builds twelve thousand colossal fusion engines to unhinge Earth from its orbit and propel it toward Proxima Centauri on a journey that will last centuries…

Welcome to the first anthology of stories by Cixin Liu, the acclaimed author of The Three-Body Problem, the best seller awarded the Hugo Prize for Best Novel that captivated Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and George R. R. Martin.

Five of the ten stories in this collection won China’s Galaxy Award. And among them shines The Wandering Earth, the tale whose film adaptation became the first Chinese big-budget science fiction movie, breaking box-office records and reaching more than thirty countries thanks to Netflix.

With depth and mastery worthy of the greatest minds, Cixin Liu’s stories take the reader to the very edge of time and the universe, but above all, they reveal humanity’s struggle to survive in a desolate cosmos.