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微纪元
本作品为刘慈欣近年发表的短篇作品的合集，包括《微纪元》、《时间移民》、《微观尽头》、《坍缩》、《天使时代》、《诗云》、《思想者》、《赡养人类》、《纤维》、《西洋》、《信使》、《圆圆的肥皂泡》共十二篇。
267 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2008
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September 9, 2016
-De los excelentes bocaditos deliciosos que te dejan con hambre.-
Género. Relato.
Lo que nos cuenta. Una de las naves fletadas por la humanidad hace 25.000 años para explorar diferentes sectores espaciales en busca de planetas habitables, la UNS Ark, está volviendo a la Tierra con un retraso de 9.000 años sobre su llegada prevista. Su único tripulante, al entrar en el Sistema Solar y cruzar la órbita de Plutón, descubre que hace unos 18.000 años se produjo el temido estallido de actividad solar que tanto temía la humanidad.
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Género. Relato.
Lo que nos cuenta. Una de las naves fletadas por la humanidad hace 25.000 años para explorar diferentes sectores espaciales en busca de planetas habitables, la UNS Ark, está volviendo a la Tierra con un retraso de 9.000 años sobre su llegada prevista. Su único tripulante, al entrar en el Sistema Solar y cruzar la órbita de Plutón, descubre que hace unos 18.000 años se produjo el temido estallido de actividad solar que tanto temía la humanidad.
¿Quiere saber más de este libro, sin spoilers? Visite:
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May 22, 2012
Este relato de Liu no me ha gustado tanto como otras. Es más una anécdota extendida, que en ciertos puntos es bastante inverosímil (en cuanto a la complejidad, ¿seguro que el tamaño importa?). Sin mucha historia. Podría ser una utopía CF, pero hay elementos que cojean y quedan sin explicación.
En la parte buena, las excelentes imágenes de Liu, que tiene un talento innegable para hacer fotografías a lo posible.
En la parte buena, las excelentes imágenes de Liu, que tiene un talento innegable para hacer fotografías a lo posible.
August 10, 2020
The Micro-Age was a short story than managed to pull my three-point-five-star rating up to a four-star rating through the ending. It was an easy read, one that gripped throughout, but it didn’t completely wow me at first. I was certainly curious and wanted more details, but it wasn’t until I experienced the surprise at the end that I felt it was worth it.
This is certainly one that is worth sticking with to see how it plays out.
This is certainly one that is worth sticking with to see how it plays out.
June 1, 2019
I found the micro humans to be very annoying. Yes, he explains why they are. Kind of. It was very hand-wavy.
Also, if he was carrying a bunch of human embryos in his ship, WHY DID HE GO ON AND ON ABOUT HOW HE’S THE LAST (macro) HUMAN? And that humanity is extinct?
Also, if he was carrying a bunch of human embryos in his ship, WHY DID HE GO ON AND ON ABOUT HOW HE’S THE LAST (macro) HUMAN? And that humanity is extinct?
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December 27, 2023
Another interesting sci-fi story from the author. Alone, survivor of earth destruction comes back to earth that he never possibly could have dreamed would exist. How would this human come to terms with the fact that humanity survived by existing in a microscopic form? And how will he fit into this new society? Another very thought-provoking story from Cixin Lou.
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August 22, 2022
His work reminded me why I got into sci fi in the first place: the fantastical imagery combined with probable/possible realities that you can’t really get from anything else.
June 29, 2020
If you want a stupid story with some of the most annoying characters you're likely to encounter, then do I have a book for you.
Even writing this review gives this pitiful excuse for a book too much credit. It's simply a brainfart of an established author that would be an embarrasment at even a high-school level.
There's no character work. There's no story. The world is built on poor science and even worse understanding of human nature. The dialogue is atrocious and I wanted to personally beat every single character in this story. If I could give negative stars, this would get a whole bunch of them.
Even writing this review gives this pitiful excuse for a book too much credit. It's simply a brainfart of an established author that would be an embarrasment at even a high-school level.
There's no character work. There's no story. The world is built on poor science and even worse understanding of human nature. The dialogue is atrocious and I wanted to personally beat every single character in this story. If I could give negative stars, this would get a whole bunch of them.
February 29, 2020
A funny LITTLE read.
However, some parts of the story are not convincing. For example, how did the macro-humans fail to include the necessary safeguards to prevent only one macro human from remaining? If the macro-humans were sophisticated enough to have very fast star ships, how were they not sophisticated enough to figure out which stars would have habitable planets?
But those issues are obviously not the focal point of the story, so it is best to put them aside and enjoy the interesting premise.
However, some parts of the story are not convincing. For example, how did the macro-humans fail to include the necessary safeguards to prevent only one macro human from remaining? If the macro-humans were sophisticated enough to have very fast star ships, how were they not sophisticated enough to figure out which stars would have habitable planets?
But those issues are obviously not the focal point of the story, so it is best to put them aside and enjoy the interesting premise.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 1, 2015
Wow, what a roller coaster ride of emotions. From deep loneliness and sadness to hopeful dreams and then sudden shock of an ending, the sensation of a delicate ball dropped, bouncing at the soft cushion with a soar better crashing with a shatter. Give me more.
January 14, 2018
Interesting concept. The ending shocked me. I enjoyed the story, but unlike some of the others by this author, I'm totally fine not reading anything else about this. Honestly, I don't think I could have enjoyed a full novel, so everything went better than expected.
February 24, 2023
Collected in The Wandering Earth: Classic Science Fiction Collection. Humanity has been over-utilizing the Earth's resources which have been depleted to such an extent it will no longer support our population, especially after the Sun has an energy flash that will result in inter planetary orbits getting larger and the earth's temperature falling by 80 degrees on average. Thus humanity built the UNS Ark, crewed by Forerunners, tasked to find a planet to which humanity could migrate. It returned to the solar system twenty-five thousand years after its departure, 9000 years later than planned.
The last forerunner finally gets close to earth, and receives a transmission that seems initially bizarre. He sees a girl, tells her he is the last Forerunner and is invited to land on earth to raucous cheers and a song about the Macro-Era??!? He is incredulous when they tell him humanity's Plan B (with other Arks) also failed, so they resorted to Plan C, which is to miniaturize humanity so they could survive with much fewer resources. My mind immediately jumped to the Matt Damon movie, Downsizing, because the concept is the same, except here the humans are reduced to microns instead of inches.
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They go over the history of what happened after. Since some folk really dislike change and others want control the eventual outcome wasn't exactly unexpected. Up to here this had been an average story, and then the ending ... wow that was worth one ⭐ just for pure shock value. To me this is one of Liu Cixin's trademark story telling techniques, to have something unexpected right at the end. That was honestly the best part about this story.
The last forerunner finally gets close to earth, and receives a transmission that seems initially bizarre. He sees a girl, tells her he is the last Forerunner and is invited to land on earth to raucous cheers and a song about the Macro-Era??!? He is incredulous when they tell him humanity's Plan B (with other Arks) also failed, so they resorted to Plan C, which is to miniaturize humanity so they could survive with much fewer resources. My mind immediately jumped to the Matt Damon movie, Downsizing, because the concept is the same, except here the humans are reduced to microns instead of inches.
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They go over the history of what happened after. Since some folk really dislike change and others want control the eventual outcome wasn't exactly unexpected. Up to here this had been an average story, and then the ending ... wow that was worth one ⭐ just for pure shock value. To me this is one of Liu Cixin's trademark story telling techniques, to have something unexpected right at the end. That was honestly the best part about this story.
October 29, 2024
Cixin Liu’nun Üç Cisim Problrmi kitabını okuduktan sonra, yazarın diğer eserlerine olan merakım daha da arttı. Genellikle Black Mirror tarzında, çarpıcı ve düşündüren kısa hikayeler (wandering earth); fakat bu kitabı (micro age), diğerlerinden daha eğlenceli ve akıcı buldum. İnsanlığın sınırlarını sorgularken sürükleyici bir dünya sunuyor. Gelecek hakkında düşündüren, temposu yüksek ve hayal gücünü zorlayan bir bilim kurgu arayanlara kesinlikle tavsiye ederim.
September 25, 2018
缺乏说服力，人怎么可能变得像一个细胞大小？那他们还是由细胞构成的么？
还有，宏世界的人怎么可能如此轻易的放弃他的身份，更不可能也不应该随便决定了他同胞的生命。
还有，宏世界的人怎么可能如此轻易的放弃他的身份，更不可能也不应该随便决定了他同胞的生命。
December 10, 2018
既然地球的资源有限，那就只能减少人类自己消耗的资源。如何做到这点呢？大刘给出了一个很新颖的想法：人类进入微纪元
November 19, 2019
Novel idea. A bit boring at some points due to repetitive lines/concepts. Not nearly as good as the novels from Cixin.
October 20, 2022
Tan buenos que me molesta que sean tan cortos y terminen. Ojalá que los productores de la tierra errante hagan todos los cuentos
July 17, 2023
I didn't understand the purpose for this story (and it was such a stretch for suspension of science!). It also had extremely awkward and stilted conversations.
January 20, 2024
This author's short stories feel much more surreal than his fully-fledged novels. I don't mind that at all.
February 1, 2024
one thing about cixen liu …. he knows how to write an ending
December 31, 2016
Lilliputian indeed.
April 16, 2024
Chinese Downsizing (2017)
February 28, 2022
a very cool book, in the book, there is the ideas of what will it be like in future.
I most like two ideas.
One is making people smaller and all the people can live in a big bubble like thing, and the book tells a lot of the physical things that is different to the "normal" people, for example they can jump really high compared to how tiny they are because they got less mass and the
gravity stays the same. and instead of drinking water, they can grab water use their hand and put the water in their mouth with hand as well because they became too small but the tension of water stay the same. there is one only "normal" human in the world that came back earth and find the "big bubble" (because the earth has became a very died looking place so i's not hard to find a place like the "big bubble"). the "normal people" and the man that came back earth has a video call and all the "small people" feel very happy they don't need to worry about any thing. they told him there is a war between the "normal people" and them and the "normal people" people somehow loss the battle, they told him what happens when the war starts and how they won the war...
The other is there is a people who made time machine and he use it to sent letter to a normal people in long time ago and they became very good friends. one day, he got a letter from his friends saying it's very good to know him and hopefully they can meet again if there is second life. He get very shocked and he try to find how his friend died and he find it in a history book that there is a war at that time and his friends name is on the list of "a group of people suicide because enemy try abuse them". after he find out this, he decided to use the time machine to go back to that time and save his friend, but because making time machine is illegal and there is one of his friend tell the police because the friend don't want him to go back time, there is never a human test on the time machine and the items test on the time machine always is some work some not work and they didn't find a common ground for the items test yet. Before the police broke the door and came in the lab, he activated the time machine, after some time, he find out he is still in the same time same place. he then find out he the time machine can only sent the things "causal chain" think don't going to change history. "grandfather paradox" is solved also, if you will change history, you can't travel time, if you travel time, then you won't kill your grandfather and you won't do anything can change history". After he find out he was "fight against god" all the time before, he get crazy and being sent to a mental hospital.
the book is very cool and the science things Cixin Liu use and the way he wrote it make the book very real.
I most like two ideas.
One is making people smaller and all the people can live in a big bubble like thing, and the book tells a lot of the physical things that is different to the "normal" people, for example they can jump really high compared to how tiny they are because they got less mass and the
gravity stays the same. and instead of drinking water, they can grab water use their hand and put the water in their mouth with hand as well because they became too small but the tension of water stay the same. there is one only "normal" human in the world that came back earth and find the "big bubble" (because the earth has became a very died looking place so i's not hard to find a place like the "big bubble"). the "normal people" and the man that came back earth has a video call and all the "small people" feel very happy they don't need to worry about any thing. they told him there is a war between the "normal people" and them and the "normal people" people somehow loss the battle, they told him what happens when the war starts and how they won the war...
The other is there is a people who made time machine and he use it to sent letter to a normal people in long time ago and they became very good friends. one day, he got a letter from his friends saying it's very good to know him and hopefully they can meet again if there is second life. He get very shocked and he try to find how his friend died and he find it in a history book that there is a war at that time and his friends name is on the list of "a group of people suicide because enemy try abuse them". after he find out this, he decided to use the time machine to go back to that time and save his friend, but because making time machine is illegal and there is one of his friend tell the police because the friend don't want him to go back time, there is never a human test on the time machine and the items test on the time machine always is some work some not work and they didn't find a common ground for the items test yet. Before the police broke the door and came in the lab, he activated the time machine, after some time, he find out he is still in the same time same place. he then find out he the time machine can only sent the things "causal chain" think don't going to change history. "grandfather paradox" is solved also, if you will change history, you can't travel time, if you travel time, then you won't kill your grandfather and you won't do anything can change history". After he find out he was "fight against god" all the time before, he get crazy and being sent to a mental hospital.
the book is very cool and the science things Cixin Liu use and the way he wrote it make the book very real.
September 11, 2016
Quiero harto a Liu Cixin, es como mi abuelo chino que me cuenta cuentos cursis y ñoños pero re bonitos.
July 2, 2012
Fantástica historia corta de ciencia ficción. Es tan corta (6 capitulos de nada) que ni vale la pena explicar de qué se trata. Si te gusta la ciencia ficción, esta historia tiene una idea central muy interesante y un final que te deja con ganas de leer mil páginas más sobre ese (micro) mundo. Muy recomendable.
Tengo ganas de leer más sobre este autor (es la primera vez que leo a un autor chino), espero que traduzcan alguna novela suya pronto, porque de momento solo hay historias cortas como ésta (por lo menos en Amazon).
Tengo ganas de leer más sobre este autor (es la primera vez que leo a un autor chino), espero que traduzcan alguna novela suya pronto, porque de momento solo hay historias cortas como ésta (por lo menos en Amazon).
July 19, 2012
Another great story from Cixin Liu. If you are a Sci Fi fan, try these.
December 22, 2015
Thought provoking, but not overly amusing.
July 23, 2013
Great short stories, one and all
August 2, 2016
Good entertaining science fiction.
June 29, 2019
挺有创意的科幻小说
January 8, 2021
Wonderful and hopeful short story!
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