Liu Cixin

Cixin Liu is China's bestselling science fiction author and one of the most important voices in world SF. His novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet earth, its pasts and its futures.

Wandering Earth

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I would not be able to explain the highly complex process of wealth concentration to you, the alien said, but in essence resembles the movements of capital on your world. During my great-grandfather 's lifetime, sixty percent of the wealth on First Earth was controlled by ten million people. During my grandfather's lifetime, eighty percent of our world's wealth was controlled by ten thousand people. During my father's lifetime, ninety percent of the wealth belonged to just forty two people. When I was born, capitalism had reached its apex on First Earth and had worked an unbelievable miracle: ninety-nine percent of the planet's wealth was held by a single person! This person became known as the Last Capitalist. 

Wandering Earth

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