Another prominent theme was that of destruction or the end of the world. In some you had a character bringing himself out of poverty, in others you had philosophical discussions on the distribution of wealth and its consequences. A few stories also touched on concepts of money and capitalism. Sometimes this was benign, if puzzling, other times it was world shattering. Several dealt with humanity's first contact with alien species. There were many themes throughout Liu's stories. In fact, I think several concepts there were probably seeds of ideas that would eventually make it into the The Three Body Problem. I couldn't help but compare them against The Three Body Problem series. I would classify these as hard science fiction as they generally take a few scientifically motivated topics and explore them in some way.
It's not clear if these are ordered by publication date or in some other fashion. There are 10 short stories in this collection. Read on after the jump for my impressions. Because this is not a novel, I won't review it in the same fashion but rather give you my impressions as a whole. I had already read the titular short story (you can find my review here), but had not yet read any of the other ones. I picked this up at Balticon, a local science fiction and fantasy convention. The Cultural Revolution as ‘partially denouncable’The Wandering Earth is a collection of short stories by Liu Cixin and translated by Ken Liu, Elizabeth Hanlon, Zac Haluza, Adam Lanphier, and Holger Nahm. Ken Liu’s anthology of Chinese sci-fi: Invisible Planets The Emerging Japanese Superstate by Herman Kahn - 70s think tank guy does a yellow peril, history buries himĬhuang article: The Wandering Earth: A Reflection of the Chinese New RightĢ00 Drones Fall Out Of The Sky In China’s Zhengzhou Jairo’s musical pairings: Gymnopédie No 1 by Erik Satie & 消愁 - Xiao Chou (Drown One's Sorrows) by Mao Buyi 毛不易Īngus’ musical pairing: Black Light Machine by Frost TrChFic Meta News: The Leeds Centre Taiwan Literature SymposiumĪnnounced by Tweet: Amazon Crossing will publish a translation of Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy
The Tyranny of Neutrality - Virginia L Conn reviews AI 2041 We get deep into postnationalism, censorship, cultural transmission, and the sublime spectacle of the utter annihilation of our planet’s fragile surface. Calling into the show from the Peruvian Engine Bunker is Jairo Morales. In the sixty second episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are setting sail on The Wandering Earth (流浪地球 / Liúlàng Dìqiú), drawn up and captained by Liu Cixin himself. In my tipsy haze, tears began to gush down my cheeks. Before us stood the long abandoned skyscrapers of Manhattan, the Sun's weak light casting their long shadows across the quiet ice of the New York Harbor.
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