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The Wandering Earth
The Wandering Earth | Liu Cixin
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Eleven short stories from China's greatest SF writer. Cixin Liu is China's bestselling science fiction author and one of the most important voices in world SF. 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: eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet earth, its pasts and its futures.
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Oldschool_millenial
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Our guy Liu Cixin likes his exposition dumps, but damn if they aren't terrifyingly close to home sometimes! This one paints a horrific hypothetical on rampant capitalism. Read it for yourself and try not to be freaked by how relevant the piece is!

In a future where aliens hover in limbo above Earth, a hit man questions why he was tasked with "processing" a number of homeless people, and stumbles on the history of these interstellar migrants.

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I swear to God this exposition is dense but dammit it keeps chilling me!

Apparently on First Earth, the Alien's homeworld, the rich isolated themselves in such a radically different environment that they literally split off into a different species from the rest of humanity.

@quotescreatorapp

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Been buried in reading and a new part-time, but still demanding, job.

Anyways:
The last sentence gave me chills.

An alien from a different Earth is describing how the wealth gap--or rather CHASM--lead all the residents of his planet to flee to this Earth. After education became less, and less affordable, an advance in technology changed the nature of education and the transferring of information.

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So Stephen Hawking makes an appearance in this one...
If only he DID live past a hundred

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More Liu Cixin.

Part alternate history, part political satire, part cautionary tale. Ants and Dinosaurs work together to create an industrial age, but growing friction and eventual mistrust lead to horrendous consequences.

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From the second story in this collection. It's called "Mountain"

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I had to share this poem from the end of the story before I move on

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Finished this novella. On to the next story in the collection.

#recommendsday

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Oldschool_millenial
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I have so much library reading 😰
Forgot to utilize the dang suspend function so here we are 🙄
This one is good so far. I heard about the movie first and watched Because Science's episode on it and the (im)plausibility of the premise, BUT there is still a lot of scientific thought put into this and that's what I am enjoying.

Because Science ep
https://youtu.be/Dgu1syQP124
B/c Sci Footnotes ep
https://youtu.be/qdzTFSOsb98

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rwmg
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An anthology of Liu's short stories. Fascinatingly different feel from Western hard sf

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Even nail clippers and bottle openers were no exception. The former could analyse the cut nail matter and send an alert about a calcium deficiency via text or email. The latter could determine if the spirits in the bottle were the genuine article and send a notification if the bottle had won a sweepstakes. The bottle openers were even capable of forcing breaks in drinking, if the user had become excessively intoxicated.

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rwmg Of Ants and Dinosaurs is a great story 7y
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Marchpane
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These hard sci-fi stories are smart, thought provoking and intellectually chewy. Characters & prose take a back seat to concepts and ideas. The parable-like stories include:

- Earth relocates to a distant star
- Aliens arrive from a "bubble world"
- Super intelligent ants and dinosaurs at war with each other
- The gods (aliens) who created us return to earth to be looked after by humans in their dotage

#inagalaxyfarfaraway #maybookflowers

AlaMich "Intellectually chewy"... that is a superb way to describe the phenomenon!!! ? 8y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk You had me at "Super-Intelligent Ants vs Dinosaurs". 8y
RaimeyGallant Great preview! 8y
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Hmm, reading has slowed to a snail's pace this month (I'm not calling it a slump!). I've been slowly working through this collection of sci-fi novellas/stories & am thoroughly enjoying it 👍

#slowingdown #notaslump #gratuitousbeachpic

JanuarieTimewalker13 Beautiful photo!! 8y
Reviewsbylola Sometimes slowing down is a good thing! I constantly try and remind myself of that! 8y
CoffeeBooksRepeat Beautiful! 8y
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Cinfhen Gorgeous pic💙I mailed the books to you last week, the post office told me 7 days...so hopefully you'll have some new options to choose from soon! 8y
Izai.Amorim Now that's a beach! If you sail straight ahead, will you arrive in Chile? (I always wonder what's on the other side) 8y
WarpedSweetness My reading has slowed down the last couple of months. That is a gorgeous view. I'm slightly jealous. Lol 8y
Marchpane @Reviewsbylola @WarpedSweetness I'm enjoying the slower pace of life at the moment 😊 8y
Marchpane @Cinfhen yay! Thanks so much, I can't wait 😊 8y
Marchpane @Izai.Amorim going due east, eventually you'd get to northern Chile, yes! First you have to go almost half way around the globe (the Pacific Ocean is BIG) 🌎 8y
Izai.Amorim @Marchpane I know it was a silly question but it comes automatically to me. As a child I already wondered, "straight ahead, Africa. But how much to the left to Europe?" It's probably genetic. We from the New World got there because some ancestor asked, "what's on the other side?" Never seen the Pacific. ☹️ 8y
Marchpane @Izai.Amorim I don't think it's silly at all. From here, almost everywhere is "over the sea and far away" ? I have a bit of a thing with latitudes, I always wonder "what is the northern hemisphere equivalent of here?" Eg we are roughly the same distance from the equator as Miami, Florida 8y
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