eBook, 421 pages
English language
Published Oct. 20, 2020 by Tor Boks.
In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physicas to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself.
Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's most visionary writers.
Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in this stunning collection.
Stories included are: …
In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physicas to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself.
Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's most visionary writers.
Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in this stunning collection.
Stories included are: Contraction Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming The Village Teacher Fire in the Earth Time Migration Ode to joy Cloud of Poems Mirror Sea of Dreams Cloud of Poems The Thinker
To Hold Up the Sky is a collection of short stories from Liu Cixin who's mostly known for his Three Body Problem trilogy.
This collection is a mixed bag. The stories range from very bad, to middling to great. Two (out of eleven) stories really spoke to me and the rest were mostly meh.
I have to say, the one thing that kept bothering me throughout the audiobook was that the spaces between one story and the next were shorter than spaces between words in a sentence as spoken by the narrator at times. I probably could have fixed it somehow by fidgeting with some settings or something, but mostly I like how audible app works with other books, and didn't find in one quick look. So yeah, I started taking breaks from listening after each story ends, so that I could think about the latest story a little bit. With all that, it's the last story that stands out the most to me, even though I don't think it was the most interesting idea or anything. It just had a lot of things I really like. Stars in a little bit magical way, neuro science, slightly sciency pattern art, a connection between people …
I have to say, the one thing that kept bothering me throughout the audiobook was that the spaces between one story and the next were shorter than spaces between words in a sentence as spoken by the narrator at times. I probably could have fixed it somehow by fidgeting with some settings or something, but mostly I like how audible app works with other books, and didn't find in one quick look. So yeah, I started taking breaks from listening after each story ends, so that I could think about the latest story a little bit. With all that, it's the last story that stands out the most to me, even though I don't think it was the most interesting idea or anything. It just had a lot of things I really like. Stars in a little bit magical way, neuro science, slightly sciency pattern art, a connection between people that doesn't require day-to-day upkeep. I hope I remember other stories too, because they were kind of cool too, but "Thinker" won for me.
