The Collected Stories

The collected stories of Cixin Liu international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem.From cosmological horror to wry satire from first contact to the end of everything these 32 stories explore our place in the universe pitting the vastness of space against the fragility of humanity.The scale of Liu''s imagination is immense exploring both the infinite and the infinitesimal the epic and the intimate. Here machine intelligences create art or sow terror humanity is annihilated or created anew alien civilizations come bearing gifts or they come in the cold logic of universal war. Solar systems are devoured planets are turned into spaceships and time is reversed.With a physicist''s mind and a philosopher''s heart Liu takes us to the boundaries of the cosmos and consciousness... but that''s just where his imagination begins.STORIES INCLUDE:With Her Eyes Contraction End of the Microcosmos Whale Song The Wandering Earth Fire in the Earth The Micro-Era Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming The Village Teacher The Messenger Fibers Sun of China Devourer Sea of Dreams The Thinker Destiny Heard It in the Morning Butterfly Cannonball Cloud of Poems Glory and Dreams Of Ants and Dinosaurs Mirror The Circle For the Benefit of Mankind Taking Care of God Ode to Joy Mountain 2018-04-01 Moonlight Curse 5.0 The Time Migration.