A View from the Stars

A View from the Stars Stories and Essays

Liu Cixin2024
"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 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Eva Ströberg@cphbirdlady
2 stars
Jul 19, 2024

A view from the stars - Cixin Liu . ⭐️⭐️ . 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. . 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 . 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 . #cixinliu #aviewfromthestars #chineseauthor #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #currentlyreading📖 #currentlyreading #2024reads #2024readingchallenge

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lala@polijus
4 stars
Jun 3, 2024