Devourer
A crystalline structure floating through the depths of space bears tidings of destruction: “The Devourer approaches!” The Devourer is a gigantic ring monstrosity that attaches itself to planets harboring carbon-based life. With its titanic tubes it strips those planets of all their natural resources, spewing out their remnants like mere scraps. Epsilon Eridani has already been visited by this catastrophe. Will Earth escape the same fate?
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The Wandering Earth
I’ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I’ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.
The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash, threatening to swallow all terrestrial planets in the solar system. On Earth, the Unity Government has erected Earth Engines. With them it plans to propel our planet out of the solar system, setting it on a journey into outer space in search of a new sun. The Earth begins its centuries-long, wandering travels through outer space.
Just as we began our journey, my grandfather passed away, his burnt body ravaged by infection.
In his final moments, he repeated over and over, “Oh, Earth, my wandering Earth...”
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About the author
Liu Cixin, born in June 1965, is a representative of the new generation of Chinese science fiction authors and recognized as a leading voice in Chinese science fiction. His works have received wide acclaim on account of their powerful atmosphere and brilliant imagination. Liu Cixin's stories successfully combine the exceedingly ephemeral with hard reality, all the while focussing on revealing the essence and aesthetics of science. He has endeavoured to create a distinctly Chinese style of science fiction. Liu Cixin is a member of the China Science Writers' Association and the Shanxi Writers' Association. He was awarded the China Galaxy Science Fiction Award for eight consecutive years, from 1999 to 2006 and again in 2010. He received the Nebula (Xingyun) Award in both 2010 and 2011.