Name: Invisible Planets par Ken Liu
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Invisible Planets Résumé

Invisible Planets Ken Liu

Here are thirteen short stories from the new frontiers of Chinese science fiction, selected and translated by Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu.

Hao Jingfang's Hugo-Award-Winning 'Folding Beijing' takes place in a near-future dystopia where the title city's buildings fold into and out of the earth, allowing three different strata of society to spend part of the day above ground. Xia Jia's 'Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse' describes a post-apocalyptic world where machines have outlived the humans who engineered them. In 'Taking Care of God' by Liu Cixin - author of The Three-Body Problem, the first translated novel to win the Hugo Award - a race of white-haired, white-robed beings arrive on Earth, claiming they are God, creators of everything who now want to spend their retirement years with us...

Including an introduction by Ken Liu and three essays exploring Chinese science fiction, this is a phenomenal collection of strange worlds, hypnotic landscapes and unbridled imagination.

Invisible Planets Avis

'Ken Liu is a genius' -- Elizabeth Bear
'A phenomenal anthology of short speculative fiction' * Kirkus Reviews *
'Whether or not Chinese SF really is a creature all to itself, on this evidence it's certainly worth reading' * Interzone *
'An excellent introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and the subtleties of woven symbology and allegory as intellectual discourse. To characterise some this content as stories of protest would deny them their detail, layers and intelligence' * Concatenation *
'Even what doesn't happen is epic' * London Review of Books *

À propos de Ken Liu

Ken Liu is an award-winning American author of speculative fiction. His collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. Liu's other works include The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, and Star Wars tie-in The Legends of Luke Skywalker, and a second collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work including the short story 'Good Hunting', adapted as an episode in Netflix's animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories. 'The Hidden Girl', 'The Message', and The Grace of Kings have also been optioned for development. Liu previously worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics including futurism, cryptocurrency, the mathematics of origami, and others. Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR008775404

ISBN 13

9781786692788

ISBN 10

1786692783

Titre

Invisible Planets Ken Liu

Auteur

Ken Liu

État

Occasion - Comme neuf

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Head of Zeus

Année de publication

2017-09-07

Nombre de pages

400

Prix

N/A

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