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A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays
"Narrator Brian Nishii perfectly conveys the author's joy and feelings of isolation at discovering science fiction as a child, the exhilaration of world-building as a science fiction writer, and the imaginative process of predicting our world in 50 years."—AudioFile
"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We’re as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future."—Cixin Liu, from the essay "Sci-Fi Fans"
A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.
"Science fiction without guile, without snark, without ironic disaffection and all its exhausting modern baggage. It just asks what would happen? Waits for someone to answer. And then it asks again."—NPR on the works of Cixin Liu
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We’re as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future."—Cixin Liu, from the essay "Sci-Fi Fans"
A VIEW FROM THE STARS features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.
"Science fiction without guile, without snark, without ironic disaffection and all its exhausting modern baggage. It just asks what would happen? Waits for someone to answer. And then it asks again."—NPR on the works of Cixin Liu
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
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May 9, 2024
4.0 Stars
Video Review: https://youtu.be/OqKPLv-OPAc
Cixin Liu has quickly become a new favourite author. I have read most of his translated books at this point, and I will continue to read whatever I can get my hands on. This collection is quite short but it had several worthwhile stories that I hadn’t read before. One of the stories is a repeat from the Wandering Earth collection. Thankfully I like that story quite a bit so I was happy to revisit it.
My favourite aspect of this collection was actually the details shared by the author. I find short stories so much more interesting when I understand the concept behind each story just as fascinating as the story itself.
As usual with this author, he explores a lot of big stakes for humanity in these short stories. I appreciate that he doesn’t shy aware from big ideas due to the page length. You can see some of the influence of the Earth’s Past Remembrance’s trilogy in his previous work.
If you are a mega fan of this author, this is a must read. I also think this collection would be an excellent place to start this with this author.
Disclaimer I received a copy of this book from the publisher.
Video Review: https://youtu.be/OqKPLv-OPAc
Cixin Liu has quickly become a new favourite author. I have read most of his translated books at this point, and I will continue to read whatever I can get my hands on. This collection is quite short but it had several worthwhile stories that I hadn’t read before. One of the stories is a repeat from the Wandering Earth collection. Thankfully I like that story quite a bit so I was happy to revisit it.
My favourite aspect of this collection was actually the details shared by the author. I find short stories so much more interesting when I understand the concept behind each story just as fascinating as the story itself.
As usual with this author, he explores a lot of big stakes for humanity in these short stories. I appreciate that he doesn’t shy aware from big ideas due to the page length. You can see some of the influence of the Earth’s Past Remembrance’s trilogy in his previous work.
If you are a mega fan of this author, this is a must read. I also think this collection would be an excellent place to start this with this author.
Disclaimer I received a copy of this book from the publisher.
May 26, 2025
4 Stars for A View From The Stars (audiobook) by Cixin Liu read by Brian Nishii.
The author explores some big ideas in this collection of short stories. This book would be a great introduction to the author to get a feeling for his style of science fiction. Then moving on to Three Body Problem.
The author explores some big ideas in this collection of short stories. This book would be a great introduction to the author to get a feeling for his style of science fiction. Then moving on to Three Body Problem.
March 12, 2024
Is Liu Cixin intelligent? Of course. Do I find the ways he discusses most issues very interesting? Not particularly. Do I tend to agree with him? Not really.
This was a weird project, because the interplay between short stories and essays felt poorly handled and a lot of the "essay" parts were pretty short and were clearly written for other things. Maybe a first half of fiction and a second half of nonfiction would have felt smoother? Regardless, I didn't really love any of it. Some of the stories were nice, and I liked his essay about Ken Liu's short stories, as well as the one where he talks about various sci-fi ideas. But largely I found the stories not long enough to sustain interest and the essays either something I disagreed with his thoughts on or just found kinda obvious. Overall, this collection made me slightly less likely to read this author more, which is not what you hope for.
This was a weird project, because the interplay between short stories and essays felt poorly handled and a lot of the "essay" parts were pretty short and were clearly written for other things. Maybe a first half of fiction and a second half of nonfiction would have felt smoother? Regardless, I didn't really love any of it. Some of the stories were nice, and I liked his essay about Ken Liu's short stories, as well as the one where he talks about various sci-fi ideas. But largely I found the stories not long enough to sustain interest and the essays either something I disagreed with his thoughts on or just found kinda obvious. Overall, this collection made me slightly less likely to read this author more, which is not what you hope for.
June 18, 2024
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*3.5
Major thanks to NetGalley and Tor Books for offering me an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts:
A wonderful foray into Liu’s writing and where his wonder comes from. In a mix of personal essays about the foundations of his work and the works himself, you get a nice appetizer in how his imagination works. Whimsy with dashes of humanity propel his work, and all of it is fixed in his fascination with life and the magic it brings to the realities he creates and the reality he lives in.
*3.5
Major thanks to NetGalley and Tor Books for offering me an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts:
A wonderful foray into Liu’s writing and where his wonder comes from. In a mix of personal essays about the foundations of his work and the works himself, you get a nice appetizer in how his imagination works. Whimsy with dashes of humanity propel his work, and all of it is fixed in his fascination with life and the magic it brings to the realities he creates and the reality he lives in.
June 30, 2024
3.5 to 4 depending on each story. As seems typical with Liu, his characters are mostly weak but his ideas are mind blowing. At first I didn’t like the introductions and essays but they definitely grew on me as the book continued. It was a nice peek into the world of Chinese science fiction and what it’s been through.
April 14, 2024
I love science!!! And this was such a fascinating collection and great for dipping your toe into Cixin’s work to see what he’s all about. He discusses a lot of concepts in here which make it into the Three-Body Problem trilogy and they are just as great. I definitely preferred the non-fiction parts of this book and found his essays about the science fiction community, as well as some science fiction ideas themselves absolutely amazing.
May 3, 2024
Whether we’re talking about science fiction across the globe or in China, it’s far too early to get nostalgic.
Interleaved stories and essays give a rough chronology of the life and times of the developing Cixin Liu, the Sirius of the current Milky Way of science fiction authors. Like many anthologies, View represents the sweeping left after his good stuff sold on its own merits. Some nuggets in here.
“The most obvious drawback of the horse-drawn carriage, compared to the automobile, is its speed.”
No, it’s how you feed the horses. (Not to mention dealing with fodder by-products.) Lui sees no problem with ant or bacteria-sized humans, forgetting that the human brain is unlikely to scale down so easily. He may be content to live under communist rule. Must of the world’s population may not.
The religious feeling of science fiction is a deep sense of awe at the great mysteries of the universe. you’re overcome by the realization that our civilization is but a tiny grain of sand in the desert of cosmic space-time.
By no means Liu’s best work, but worth reading. Flights of imagination interleaved with short essays from various SF publications. Liu alludes to his atheism but not his controversial views on the Chinese Communist Party. (Give him a break, he has to live there.)
The worlds described in today’s sci-fi are entirely different from those of a few decades ago, whereas today’s fantasy worlds aren’t so different from those of the Middle Ages.
Interleaved stories and essays give a rough chronology of the life and times of the developing Cixin Liu, the Sirius of the current Milky Way of science fiction authors. Like many anthologies, View represents the sweeping left after his good stuff sold on its own merits. Some nuggets in here.
“The most obvious drawback of the horse-drawn carriage, compared to the automobile, is its speed.”
No, it’s how you feed the horses. (Not to mention dealing with fodder by-products.) Lui sees no problem with ant or bacteria-sized humans, forgetting that the human brain is unlikely to scale down so easily. He may be content to live under communist rule. Must of the world’s population may not.
The religious feeling of science fiction is a deep sense of awe at the great mysteries of the universe. you’re overcome by the realization that our civilization is but a tiny grain of sand in the desert of cosmic space-time.
By no means Liu’s best work, but worth reading. Flights of imagination interleaved with short essays from various SF publications. Liu alludes to his atheism but not his controversial views on the Chinese Communist Party. (Give him a break, he has to live there.)
The worlds described in today’s sci-fi are entirely different from those of a few decades ago, whereas today’s fantasy worlds aren’t so different from those of the Middle Ages.
May 8, 2024
2.5 even... Liu's style and philosophy towards sci-fi and what it needs to accomplish, and the ways in which it should do that, or the role it plays in society... idk they are not for me!
April 3, 2024
I was so excited and thankful when I received this earc from NetGalley and the publisher! Especially right about the same time as The Three Body Problem series dropped on Netflix - one of the greatest sci fi series! This collection is mostly short essays which are non fiction. Science isn’t my favorite topic by any means but I still found it fascinating to learn about various topics from this great writer!
June 10, 2024
Great to have some analysis on sci-fi from an author who excels in the genre. The essays towards the end provide some really interesting brief sociological analysis. Not convinced by some of the short stories but Liu's recent success in the Three-Body problem proves he still has plenty to share with us. Also great to have a non-western perspective in a genre that tends to be overwhelmingly American.
March 28, 2024
I was provided and audio ARC of this book via Netgalley, all opinions are my own. I did enjoy the narrator, he did a good job with the voice acting for the fictional works.
If you are a fan of the author's work, this is a nice compilation of fiction and non-fiction short stories and essays that he has written over his career from various publications. I would not recommend this as a starting point for the author's work if you are a new reader. This complication includes a mix of short stories tied to novels he has written, complete standalone short stories, and essays and interviews composed for magazines and other outlets. I have previously only read the Remembrance of Earth's Past series (Three Body Problem) and was able to follow along with his writing style, which I do enjoy.
The author has very particular opinions on sci-fi and expresses them in his essays. You also have to keep in mind that many of the works are translated, and there is often something lost in the translation of a work because the translator will put their own "spin" on things. If this is where you start with the author's writing, I can see a new reader to his work being turned off by this compilation of interviews, essays, and short fiction. This is a more thought provoking insight into his life and works and how he sees science and science fiction based on his experiences.
Overall, I very much enjoyed the fictional short stories, but the addition of the non-fiction essays felt a bit disjointed. I feel like it should have been all essays or all short stories, I thought it was all short fiction but I misread the synopsis. There was no flow between the fiction and the non-fiction, at least in the audio version. Perhaps in the print book, where you can pick the book up and put it down between stories and articles it makes more sense to compile the book in this way.
If you are a fan of the author's work, this is a nice compilation of fiction and non-fiction short stories and essays that he has written over his career from various publications. I would not recommend this as a starting point for the author's work if you are a new reader. This complication includes a mix of short stories tied to novels he has written, complete standalone short stories, and essays and interviews composed for magazines and other outlets. I have previously only read the Remembrance of Earth's Past series (Three Body Problem) and was able to follow along with his writing style, which I do enjoy.
The author has very particular opinions on sci-fi and expresses them in his essays. You also have to keep in mind that many of the works are translated, and there is often something lost in the translation of a work because the translator will put their own "spin" on things. If this is where you start with the author's writing, I can see a new reader to his work being turned off by this compilation of interviews, essays, and short fiction. This is a more thought provoking insight into his life and works and how he sees science and science fiction based on his experiences.
Overall, I very much enjoyed the fictional short stories, but the addition of the non-fiction essays felt a bit disjointed. I feel like it should have been all essays or all short stories, I thought it was all short fiction but I misread the synopsis. There was no flow between the fiction and the non-fiction, at least in the audio version. Perhaps in the print book, where you can pick the book up and put it down between stories and articles it makes more sense to compile the book in this way.
January 10, 2025
Part essays, part short stories, this was an interesting exploration of the universe and one man's mind. I know I didn't quite grasp all of it, but I enjoyed every moment.
My favorite short story was "Butterfly". I've always loved the concept of the Butterfly Effect, so to see that played with in such a compelling and heartbreaking way was interesting. I also really enjoyed the last essay that brought the whole collection together.
I do not agree with everything posited in this collection, as I am a Christian so I come at things from a different view, but it was good for me to explore other types of thought and have driven home for me how much more hope I have with a God behind science.
My favorite short story was "Butterfly". I've always loved the concept of the Butterfly Effect, so to see that played with in such a compelling and heartbreaking way was interesting. I also really enjoyed the last essay that brought the whole collection together.
I do not agree with everything posited in this collection, as I am a Christian so I come at things from a different view, but it was good for me to explore other types of thought and have driven home for me how much more hope I have with a God behind science.
November 29, 2025
Ich habe zwar gemischte Gefühle gegenüber Liu Cixins Trisolaris-Trilogie, sie hat mir aber insgesamt einen beeindruckenden Eindruck hinterlassen. In dieser Kurzgeschichtensammlung hingegen hat er für mich wenig Interessantes zu sagen. Viele Geschichten wirken absurd, manche etwas töricht. Besonders störend finde ich es, wenn angeblich brillante Wissenschaftler sich auffallend vernunftwidrig verhalten. Zudem begeht Liu in mehr als der Hälfte der Geschichten grundlegende wissenschaftliche oder logische Fehlschlüsse, was die Lektüre für mich äusserst frustriert.
Wahlgesang 1* -- Hat sich Liu nicht über die Ernährungsgewohnheiten der Blauwale informiert?
Der Bote 2* -- Langweilig, klischeehaft.
Schmetterling 2* -- Nicht bewegend, nicht überzeugend, absurdes/kein richtiges Ende/keine Pointe.
Das Ende des Mikrokosmos 1* -- Doof, unwissenschaftlich.
Schicksal 1* -- Besonders frustrierend: ein toller Twist, dann die dümmste Unlogik.
Der Einstein Aequator 1* -- Die brillantesten Wissenschaftler der Erde sind dumm.
Wahlgesang 1* -- Hat sich Liu nicht über die Ernährungsgewohnheiten der Blauwale informiert?
Der Bote 2* -- Langweilig, klischeehaft.
Schmetterling 2* -- Nicht bewegend, nicht überzeugend, absurdes/kein richtiges Ende/keine Pointe.
Das Ende des Mikrokosmos 1* -- Doof, unwissenschaftlich.
Schicksal 1* -- Besonders frustrierend: ein toller Twist, dann die dümmste Unlogik.
Der Einstein Aequator 1* -- Die brillantesten Wissenschaftler der Erde sind dumm.
May 17, 2024
A beautiful book encapsulating the beauty and grandeur of sci-fi weaved together with Cixin’s previous short stories. I love sci-fi and it was amazing to hear an author describe the allure and awe of speculating on the great mysteries of the universe.
An interest little tidbit that stuck with me was that due to the current accelerating rate of technological advancement, science can not accurately forecast anything more than twenty years off, therefore science fiction writers can be given relatively the same amount of credence when speculating about the far future.
An interest little tidbit that stuck with me was that due to the current accelerating rate of technological advancement, science can not accurately forecast anything more than twenty years off, therefore science fiction writers can be given relatively the same amount of credence when speculating about the far future.
May 13, 2024
A mixture of essays and short stories from Liu's career, where the essays complement the succeeding story. Some of the ideas are grand and some are quite intimate. It is interesting how the author tries to define the differences between science fiction and science fantasy at different phases of his career and never quite seems to find a description that fits properly.
April 25, 2024
i read this because i liked the three body problem trilogy by the same author, which will probably be the reason most people are reading this. it's a collection of essays and short stories most of the essays are about how sci-fi should be grounded in actual science, and that nobody in china likes sci-fi. none of these essays were very good; liu really doesn't have anything interesting to say, unfortunately. the short stories are not much better. they all try and come off as very serious, but are all ridiculous.none of these are very memorable either. it's a relatively short collection, so nothing lost, but it would be hard to recommend this to someone who isn't a giant cixin liu fanatic.
May 18, 2024
Great short stories from the mind of a brilliant author. “We sci-fi fans are a people from the future.”
May 24, 2024
Read for AAPI month
4 for stories
3 for interviews/essays
4 for stories
3 for interviews/essays
April 26, 2024
Thank you NetGalley and Head of Zeus for the advance reader copy.
Sometimes an author writes an amazing piece of work and other times, like this collection of essays unfortunately, was not that.
I think the authors classic style of writing is still somewhat there within the essays but there’s not a lot to draw you in and keep you there.
Sometimes an author writes an amazing piece of work and other times, like this collection of essays unfortunately, was not that.
I think the authors classic style of writing is still somewhat there within the essays but there’s not a lot to draw you in and keep you there.
May 2, 2024
I think that it’s safe to say that I enjoyed my time reading ‘A View From the Stars’. Massive thanks to NetGalley for providing me an arc of this book. Despite me giving it 3.75 stars (which isn’t a bad rating but I haven’t really rated many books lower that 4 stars this year) I did enjoy every second reading this. I’ve been meaning to read a book by Cixin Liu for the longest time and I thought that I would have started with ‘The Three Body Problem’, which is probably his most famous work, but the arc of this is where I started. I would say not to start with this book if you’re looking to get into his work, probably start with The Three Body Problem (although I haven’t read it). I flew through the first 60% and it took me longer to get through the last 40% but that was just a time issue. I thought that the book was very thought provoking, and as an avid science fiction fan and someone who thinks a lot about physics, some of the essays in here really helped bring new light to some little arguments and conversations I have with myself about the things brought up. I also enjoyed learning a little more about the science fiction scene in china versus the United States. It really show how diverse they are from each other. Overall, I gave this 3.75 stars!
May 19, 2025
I was dying for more stories by Cixin so I picked this one up. While none of the stories surpassed my favorites from him, they were still excellent. I also enjoyed the various essays and interviews. Very interesting and a great explanation of what sci-fi is.
July 18, 2024
I was really excited to read this newly in English collection of stories and essays by one of my favorite authors. I found the stories intriguing, often somewhat dark, many interested in topics I've read before from Liu. The essays were mostly less compelling, but still fun to read as a fan.
August 1, 2024
Y'all I don't know if I'll even read Three Body after this. I read one scene in the beginning where a guy cuts another man's nose off and spends-I'm not even kidding-three pages laughing about it.
No thanks.
2 stars, and one star is for the beautiful cover.
No thanks.
2 stars, and one star is for the beautiful cover.
June 30, 2024
Deeply stupid
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June 10, 2024Because I loved The Three Body Problem and I wanted to understand Liu Cixin’s thought more deeply, I plunged into this mix of essays & short stories with a lot of curiosity and an open mind. I didn’t find the combination to work so well, jumping from essay to story again and again, and I can safely say this is a collection for fans, not for new readers. However, it seems I AM a fan and I did enjoy it, including reading about his predictions for the future, his thoughts on Chinese science-fiction, and random stuff I didn’t care about or didn’t agree with.
For example, “Whale song” is fun and sort of peculiar, because it shows an interest in ecological matters that doesn’t appear often in his bigger work (in the Three Body Problem’s universe, climate stuff is in the background because there are ‘bigger’ issues at play). I also found his idea that “If we already live in an environment full of danger, then science fiction won’t interest us” interesting (from the 2010 essay on finishing Death’s End). It’s completely opposed to what I am used to thinking about sci-fi and why I consider it useful, drawing from Le Guin, Butler and maree brown. But that’s because for Cixin, sci-fi is about man vs. the universe. Not so much for queer-feminists, not necessarily. Still, this divergence is exactly why I was interested in reading him - because he is this sort of classical hard sci-fi writer who pays too little attention to interhuman relationships, and YET I was not bored. His concepts of a micro-civilization (through shrinkage) was also fascinating, and so was the story “Destiny”, a sort of unexpected, amusing re-telling of evolution. All in all, time well spent.
Thanks to NetGalley & Head of Zeus for the e-arc!
For example, “Whale song” is fun and sort of peculiar, because it shows an interest in ecological matters that doesn’t appear often in his bigger work (in the Three Body Problem’s universe, climate stuff is in the background because there are ‘bigger’ issues at play). I also found his idea that “If we already live in an environment full of danger, then science fiction won’t interest us” interesting (from the 2010 essay on finishing Death’s End). It’s completely opposed to what I am used to thinking about sci-fi and why I consider it useful, drawing from Le Guin, Butler and maree brown. But that’s because for Cixin, sci-fi is about man vs. the universe. Not so much for queer-feminists, not necessarily. Still, this divergence is exactly why I was interested in reading him - because he is this sort of classical hard sci-fi writer who pays too little attention to interhuman relationships, and YET I was not bored. His concepts of a micro-civilization (through shrinkage) was also fascinating, and so was the story “Destiny”, a sort of unexpected, amusing re-telling of evolution. All in all, time well spent.
Thanks to NetGalley & Head of Zeus for the e-arc!
June 3, 2024
The hardest sci-fi I've read in some time.
Liu presents some fascinating theories in both fictional and factual form in A View from the Stars. You can tell early on that he keeps up to date with the latest scientific developments and won't begin writing until he has a firm grasp of the physics.
This leads to tales with huge ideas like transforming energy into mass and vacuum decay annihilating the universe, which Liu conveys with great attention to detail. However his characterisation is dwarfed by such description, leading to some rather two-dimensional protagonists. Such is the way with hard science fiction: plot is educated thought experiment and emotion its oppositional Greek chorus.
The author admits to this shortcoming himself in his essays, which intrigued me more than the stories. Liu's views on science fiction being at odds with literature scandalised me somewhat but his fan boy modesty and enduring respect for fantasy smoothed all that over. I appreciate where he's coming from, even if we don't see eye to eye.
In any case, A View from the Stars has succeeded at whetting my appetite for The Three-Body Problem and his other award-winning works. I'd say it's about time I delved into the truly empirical stuff. I recommend A View from the Stars to those who like their fiction scientifically approved.
Notable Prose
• Whale Song - the most lateral thinking approach to drug smuggling with an inspired ecological lesson.
• Butterfly - a grim tale of one man rushing around the globe to protect his homeland with engineered weather.
• We're Sci-Fi Fans - an essay that is a rallying cry to all nerds obsessed with space and uncanny science.
Liu presents some fascinating theories in both fictional and factual form in A View from the Stars. You can tell early on that he keeps up to date with the latest scientific developments and won't begin writing until he has a firm grasp of the physics.
This leads to tales with huge ideas like transforming energy into mass and vacuum decay annihilating the universe, which Liu conveys with great attention to detail. However his characterisation is dwarfed by such description, leading to some rather two-dimensional protagonists. Such is the way with hard science fiction: plot is educated thought experiment and emotion its oppositional Greek chorus.
The author admits to this shortcoming himself in his essays, which intrigued me more than the stories. Liu's views on science fiction being at odds with literature scandalised me somewhat but his fan boy modesty and enduring respect for fantasy smoothed all that over. I appreciate where he's coming from, even if we don't see eye to eye.
In any case, A View from the Stars has succeeded at whetting my appetite for The Three-Body Problem and his other award-winning works. I'd say it's about time I delved into the truly empirical stuff. I recommend A View from the Stars to those who like their fiction scientifically approved.
Notable Prose
• Whale Song - the most lateral thinking approach to drug smuggling with an inspired ecological lesson.
• Butterfly - a grim tale of one man rushing around the globe to protect his homeland with engineered weather.
• We're Sci-Fi Fans - an essay that is a rallying cry to all nerds obsessed with space and uncanny science.
February 12, 2024
Después de la decepción que fue para mi la última obra de Cixin Liu publicada en castellano, esta recopilación de relatos y ensayos (la mayoria de la primera década de este siglo) me ha parecido simplemente genial.
Nada tiene pérdida ni un solo relato, no un solo ensayo. Además podemos ver la coherencia del autor ya que aparecen muchas ideas que se han visto reflejadas y más desarrolladas en sus obras.
Ha sido interesante también venir de leer Paleontología Pop antes de La Vista desde las Estrellas, pues hay referencias paleontológicas que me han ayudado a seguir mejor las magnitudes temporales terrestres que utiliza el autor.
Además esta plagado de referencias a muchas obras y relatos de otros autores que no pienso dejar de leer.
Genial, como siempre. 5⭐️ y por supuesto, recomendable 100%!!
Una traducción delicuescente de David Tejera. 👏🏼👏🏼
Nada tiene pérdida ni un solo relato, no un solo ensayo. Además podemos ver la coherencia del autor ya que aparecen muchas ideas que se han visto reflejadas y más desarrolladas en sus obras.
Ha sido interesante también venir de leer Paleontología Pop antes de La Vista desde las Estrellas, pues hay referencias paleontológicas que me han ayudado a seguir mejor las magnitudes temporales terrestres que utiliza el autor.
Además esta plagado de referencias a muchas obras y relatos de otros autores que no pienso dejar de leer.
Genial, como siempre. 5⭐️ y por supuesto, recomendable 100%!!
Una traducción delicuescente de David Tejera. 👏🏼👏🏼
June 4, 2024
A view from the stars - Cixin Liu
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I love Three Body Problem series. I couldn’t get enough of it, so my interest was piqued immediately when I saw this book. This book contains short stories and I was expecting it to be similar to Ken Liu’s Paper Menagerie.
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Unfortunately the book was mostly commentaries, notes from the author, and some short stories. The stories were good enough, my fave was Destiny when space tourism was a common thing, but I felt cheated of more good stories so I was disappointed
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All in all, Cixin Liu is a brilliant sci fi writer. His stories and imaginations are amazing, but I was disappointed of this book because I expected more
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I love Three Body Problem series. I couldn’t get enough of it, so my interest was piqued immediately when I saw this book. This book contains short stories and I was expecting it to be similar to Ken Liu’s Paper Menagerie.
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Unfortunately the book was mostly commentaries, notes from the author, and some short stories. The stories were good enough, my fave was Destiny when space tourism was a common thing, but I felt cheated of more good stories so I was disappointed
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All in all, Cixin Liu is a brilliant sci fi writer. His stories and imaginations are amazing, but I was disappointed of this book because I expected more
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January 17, 2025
An assembled collection of fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu regarding the general landscape of sci-fi in China. It was interesting to learn more about the attitudes and background of why (or why not) sci-fi differs geographically. I enjoyed some stories - Civilisation's Expansion in Reverse, The "Church" of Sci-Fi, and The World in Fifty Years - which are all more on the speculative fiction side. There were also interviews and thinkpieces inserted, some of which were engaging, others not.
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