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A View From The Stars
''A View from the Stars'' is a collection of six science-fiction short stories and thirteen Essay, essays by China, Chinese writer Liu Cixin, published by Head of Zeus in April 2024 and by Tor Books in May 2024. Contents Stories Essays Reviews Paul Di Filippo wrote in the ''Locus (magazine), Locus Magazine'', that "this collection does not exist at quite the same summit as his previous one [''To Hold Up the Sky'']" since the stories "amuse, but do not represent the heights of his writing, save perhaps for the final one." Nonetheless, "there’s much to admire when they are considered en masse". He adds that "once more, the bevy of deft translators earn our loudest applause" and concludes: "As with the work of Stanisław Lem, Stanislaw Lem and the Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Strugatsky Brothers, Cixin Liu’s writings offer a rich and deep SF-centric worldview whose exoticisms are precisely balanced by the universal commonalities which all SF readers and writers share ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (, pronounced ; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer. In English translations of his works, his name is given as Cixin Liu. He is sometimes called "''Da'' Liu" ("Big Liu") by his fellow science fiction writers in China. He is a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award (China), Galaxy Award, and has also received the 2015 Hugo Award for his novel ''The Three-Body Problem (novel), The Three-Body Problem'', as well as the 2017 Locus Award for ''Death's End''. He is also a winner of the Chinese Nebula Awards (China), Nebula Award. He is a member of the China Science Writers Association and the vice president of the Shanxi Writers Association. Life and career Liu was born on 23 June 1963 in Beijing. He grew up in Yangquan, Shanxi, where his parents had been sent to work in the mines. Due to the violence of the Cultural Revolution he was sent to live in his ancestral home in Luoshan County, Henan. Liu graduated from the North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |