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(Originally published on my blog: http://sentidodelamaravilla.blogspot....)Liu Cixin is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. After reading "Taking Care of God" and Mountain I have now read The Wandering Earth and, again, I am completely amazed. Cixin's imagination is astonishing. The images in his works are absolutely striking. His ability to provoke powerful emotions in the reader, without equal.In The Wandering Earth, our planet is in extreme danger. The Sun has become unstable and it'...
A really good and interesting idea, but a really cheesy ending ruined the experience a bit. Still, that was enough to peak my interest in a movie which is based on this book and released a couple months ago. Probably I'll watch it.
The Wandering Earth (both the short story itself and the anthology of the same title) is a masterpiece of hard science fiction that fearlessly tackles our place in the universe and our potential encounters with alien or extraterrestrial civilizations. While none of the plots is boring (on the contrary, most of them are actually quite exhilarating), the true core of these stories is a reflection about our far distant future, the actual requirements of space travel, and how we will need to eventua...
Reread in anticipation for the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lsOw...From what I see it’s not quite like the novelette, however, looks damn good.Back to the story, the Sun is about to become a red giant and humanity must find a way to survive. 12,000 engines are built in order to propel Earth from its orbit, away from the Sun and toward the nearest star, the Proxima Centauri.The novelette is one of the best I read so far. But how else could it be being Cixin’s? You’ll find it in the col...
I found the concept quite interesting and was satisfied with the ending which matched the story. Some of the dialogue however seemed a little stiff and it was interesting to see the populace so subservient to the command structure and somewhat a lack of empathy shown though whether that was the intent or the background of the author I could not say. I would also have liked more science to back up the technology that was involved.
4.20pm, 16/10/1999. Yanquan City, Shanxi Province, Peoples Republic of ChinaLocation: Liu Cixin’s Apartment.A plain brown couch sits opposite a bookcase full of engineering and SF books. In front of the couch is a glass coffee table with a bulbous, hollow glass object that resembles a rocketship sitting on it.Liu Cixin and his Friend sit on the couch. They both have sleepy, glazed expressions.Liu: "Have you… have you ever thought that the Earth is really just a giant spaceship? A great big space...
Reading this book was like attending a lecture on a really interesting topic given by a really boring person who speaks only in a monotone voice. It had a lot of potential but it was a chore to read.
Solid 5 out of 5. I almost cry at the end of story.
In time, I will be gone,So distant our solar story,But call me at the dawnWhen the trees bloom with fresh gloryThis is a wonderful thought experiment about what it would be like to turn Earth into a spaceship and send it outside the Solar System.Oh, Earth, my wandering Earth...
This was a really well written short story that chronicles the death of the Sun and how the last residents of Earth change the trajectory of the planet's orbit in order to survive.Liu's prose is beautiful and poetical and the world-building simply fantastic making it a really good science-fiction story.Based on this short story, I would definitely be interested in reading more from this author.
I was able to download this short story for free from Amazon. The premise seems interesting - the sun is set to explode and instead of trying to build thousands of spaceships to transport humanity over many generations to another inhabitable planet, they've instead decided to turn the entire Earth into a spaceship by building "Earth Engines."I don't pretend to have a firm enough grasp of astrophysics to speak with any authority, but I find it implausible that humanity would be able to successful...
I forgot where I got The Wandering Earth, but it has been sitting on my kindle for more than a year. It's a short read, so I'm not sure why I didn't start it sooner.The premise is that scientists discover that the sun will die in 300-500 years and swallow up all the planets in its inner orbit, including Earth, in the process. To ensure survival, the people of Earth decide to find a nearby star for its new sun and somehow propel Earth out of its current orbit, out of the solar system, and toward
If I had been thinking, "What I really need right now is an awesome Big-Idea story that turns the earth into an inter-solar spaceship, reminding me pleasantly of some of the early Stephen Baxter tales," then after reading this, I'd say, "Holy shit!"Well, as it so happens, I've been in a Bigger-Is-Better frame of mind for the last few days, so getting something like this was like unwrapping a mystery gift and actually getting a 24 karat gold ring. Liu Cixin turned a great tale, following lifetime...
I so wanted to get into Liu Cixin. I found myself bogged down in ‘The Three-Body Problem ’, and thought I might have more luck with his short story/ novella ‘The Wandering Earth’, but I had the same response. Although I think the books are so inventive and the plots are good, I can’t do with long scientific description. It just turns me cold. I always hear my inner self screaming “get on with it”. It’s not the book’s problem, and if you are into that lengthy scientific stuff, you will love it.
4.5 Very good for such a short story! I also liked it because it's quite different from the movie adaptation (except for the earth becoming a spaceship of course ^^).
The Wandering Earth is a sci-if novella in which the Sun is going to explode and drastic measures are needed to save humanity. The Earth is turned into a giant spaceship in which it will be propelled out of the solar system and towards Proxima Centauri the nearest star. The story is told from the point of view of an unnamed narrator and it spans his lifetime. He was born in one of the underground cities and never saw the Sun until on a class trip around the Earth. All of the children are terrifi...
The sun is about to expand into a red giant, so humanity decides to move the Earth towards the orbit of Proxima Centauri. I won't say how and if the threat is real, you have to read to find out :)Thanks, Claudia, for reminding me to read this before I will see the movie!
Liu CixinThe Wandering EarthBeijing Guomi Digital Technology45 pages8.2 (Best Book)The Wandering Earth is developed from Liu's ambitious and wild idea, but his gentle and humane touch turns this novella into something that's sentimental, beautiful, and full of hope.In 2007, Liu Cixin released The Three-Body Problem, an astonishing and groundbreaking sci-fi novel where he plants the seed of space war on one place that's familiar to all of us: the Earth. For an epic war, The Three-Body Problem is
The book is set in Earth's near future, where the countdown to the end of the world has already begun. It tells a wonderful story of struggle and endurance, as we follow the protagonist throughout their life. In the Pre-Solar Age, nobility meant money and power, but now one must only hold to hope. Hope is the gold and the jewels of this age.This is science fiction at its best.
Even though Cixin Liu is not the greatest storyteller of all times, his imagination and original ideas more than make up for it. The fact that he is Chinese is an extra advantage to all westerners, because his stories are even more original, more poetic, less "American" so to say. All in all, this book contains some of the best SF I have read in a long time. Definitely recommended if you read and liked the Three Body Problem trilogy - but not only.