"Bloomsbury presents Death's End by Cixin Liu, read by Daniel York Loh.
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
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 and, with human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has made humanity complacent.
Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
Praise for The Three-Body Problem:
'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
Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel P 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC C 2010 Cixin Liu"
"Bloomsbury presents Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu, read by Feodor Chin
'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 C 2005 Macmillan Publishing"
"Un jour lointain des tréfonds du Crétacé qu’un Tyrannosaurus rex s’agace d’un morceau de viande coincé entre ses énormes dents, une colonie de fourmis voisine prend le risque d'entrer dans sa gueule pour en faire son festin. À partir de cet humble début va se développer au fil des siècles et des millénaires une civilisation symbiotique qui réalisera des progrès étonnants, atteindra des sommets vertigineux dans d'innombrables domaines scientifiques et sociaux, mais qui devra aussi affronter des dangers et savoir exploiter des opportunités à chaque tournant. Dans ce récit captivant, Liu Cixin, à son meilleur, parvient à décrire un monde qui aurait pu être."
"Bloomsbury presents A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu, read by Brian Nishii.
We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We’re as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future.' – Cixin Liu, from the essay 'Sci-Fi Fans'
A View from the Stars features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years. C 2024 Macmillan Publishing"
"A mezzo secolo dall'Ultima Battaglia sembra essersi creato un equilibrio tra terrestri e Trisolariani: i primi beneficiano della conoscenza degli invasori spaziali e stanno compiendo grandi progressi tecnologici, mentre gli alieni stanno assimilando la cultura terrestre. Pare che le due civiltà siano pronte per iniziare una convivenza pacifica, tra eguali, senza l'assurda minaccia della reciproca distruzione. Tutto cambia quando Cheng Xin, ingegnere aerospaziale ibernata all'inizio del XXI secolo, si risveglia. La donna porta con sé il ricordo di un programma ormai dimenticato, risalente agli albori dell'Epoca della Crisi, e la sua sola presenza potrebbe alterare il fragile equilibrio instauratosi tra terrestri e alieni. L'umanità riuscirà a raggiungere le stelle, o morirà nella sua culla?
contributori TR Benedetta Tavani LE Dario Dossena"
"Après cinq cents millions d'années d’existence, une étoile inconnue de la constellation du Cocher finit ses jours en une spectaculaire explosion d’énergie : une supernova. Elle déclenche des tempêtes de radiations qui touchent bientôt la Terre et endommagent l'ADN de tous les êtres vivants de manière irréversible. Les études scientifiques montrent que ces dégâts ne sont pas irréversibles pour les individus humains de moins de treize ans. Les enfants seront donc les seuls survivants de leur espèce, et leur tour sera bientôt venu de présider à la destinée du monde… Fable philosophique en forme d’hommage à 'Sa Majesté des mouches', 'L’Ere de la supernova' est une puissante réflexion sur la transmission entre générations."
"L'universo è un'immensa foresta abitata da feroci predatori. Nascondersi significa sopravvivere, rivelarsi significa diventare prede. È quello che ha fatto la Terra, e ora i predatori stanno arrivando. Impiegheranno 400 anni, attraverso gli spazi siderali, e la Terra tenta di organizzare una disperata resistenza. I terrestri che avevano cercato di collaborare con i Trisolariani sono stati sconfitti, ma sul pianeta sono presenti i sofoni, particelle subatomiche in grado di dare agli alieni accesso istantaneo a tutte le conoscenze umane: ciò comporta che i piani difensivi sono a totale disposizione del nemico. Solo la mente umana rimane inaccessibile: è questa l'unica speranza di salvezza attorno a cui si costruisce il Progetto Asceti Impenetrabili, un audace programma che garantisce enormi risorse e affida poteri straordinari a quattro persone perché trovino una strategia difensiva efficace: tre sono importanti uomini politici e scienziati. Il quarto è un oscuro, mite astronomo e sociologo cinese, stupito che abbiano voluto affidargli quell'incarico. Eppure è proprio lui quello che gli invasori Trisolariani vogliono morto...
contributori LE Dario Dossena"
"Nella Cina della Rivoluzione culturale, un progetto militare segreto invia segnali nello spazio cercando di contattare intelligenze aliene. E ci riesce: il messaggio viene captato però dal pianeta sbagliato, Trisolaris, l'unico superstite di un sistema orbitante attorno a tre soli, dominato da forze gravitazionali caotiche e imprevedibili, che hanno già arso undici mondi. È quello che i fisici chiamano 'problema dei tre corpi', e i trisolariani sanno che anche il loro destino, prima o poi, sarà di sprofondare nella superficie rovente di uno dei soli. A meno di non trovare una nuova casa. Un pianeta abitabile, proprio come il nostro. Trisolaris pianifica quindi un'invasione della Terra.
Sul Pianeta azzurro, nel frattempo, l'umanità si divide: come accogliere i visitatori dallo spazio? Combattere gli invasori o aiutarli a far piazza pulita di un mondo irrimediabilmente corrotto?
contributori TR Benedetta Tavani LE Dario Dossena"
"El libro que reúne por primera vez los ensayos y relatos de Cixin Liu, el aclamado autor de El problema de los tres cuerpos.
La vista desde las estrellas recopila una gran variedad de textos cortos escritos en las últimas tres décadas por Cixin Liu, el mayor maestro de la ciencia ficción desde Isaac Asimov, gracias a su obra cumbre la Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos. Los ensayos y entrevistas que en él se incluyen explican algunas de sus experiencias como lector, escritor y amante de la ciencia ficción a lo largo de toda su vida. Asimismo, en sus magistrales relatos de ficción, asistimos a la evolución de su voz imaginativa a través de los años. El resultado es la mirada única de una de las mentes más visionarias de nuestro tiempo.
«Somos alienígenas misteriosos entre la multitud. Saltamos como pulgas del pasado al futuro y del futuro al pasado, y flotamos como nubes de gas entre las nebulosas. En un abrir y cerrar de ojos, podemos llegar hasta los límites del universo, convertirnos en un quark o nadar dentro de un núcleo estelar... Ahora somos pocos y débiles, como las humildes luciérnagas, pero cada vez somos más y crecemos como la hierba en primavera. Los aficionados a la ciencia ficción somos los habitantes del futuro».
«Increíblemente imaginativo».
BARACK OBAMA"
"Bloomsbury presents The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, read by Daniel York Loh.
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.
Earth has. Now the predators are coming.
Crossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.
This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown.
Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
Praise for The Three-Body Problem:
'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
Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel"
"Bloomsbury presents The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu, read by Jeremy Domingo.
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. C 2013 Macmillan Publishing"
"Bloomsbury presents The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, read by Daniel York Loh.
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
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.
Praise for The Three-Body Problem:
'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
Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel C 2023 Cixin Liu P 2023 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC C 2023 Ken Liu"
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