Broken Stars, Ivan Kal
Broken Stars, Ivan Kal
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Broken Stars

Author: Ivan Kal

Narrator: James R. Cheatham

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/30/2024


Synopsis

They told us "No."

If they had taken the time to learn about us, to truly understand what it was that made us human, they would've known that that had been their greatest mistake.

Sixty-seven years ago the Qash'vo'tar conquered Earth. Ever since then, the aliens had ruled from above. The Qash'vo'tar did not care what humanity did on the ground, as long as they didn't attempt to build anything that could get them to the stars.

Instead of the stars, humanity explored the oceans, burrowed deep underground, and broadened its understanding of laws of physics. Until finally they could take no more. In secret the United Earth's best scientists attempted to find a way out. Deep underground, they created a portal to another universe.

They made a breach to a universe where there was magic. This new universe changed them, changed their own universe. This one accident gave them a new weapon against the Qash'vo'tar. And they studied it, integrated it with their technology, and they waited for the right time to strike back against their alien overlords.

And now, sixty-seven years after they had been conquered, it was time for humanity to show the Qash'vo'tar that they had been right to fear humanity.

About Ivan Kal

Ivan Kal is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. His books include the space opera series Rise of the Empire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Raquel on October 02, 2021

En esta antología Ken Liu traduce y presenta dieciséis relatos escritos por catorce autores chinos atendiendo a su gusto personal, y ofrece una buena visión del panorama de la ciencia ficción china actual. Son unos relatos de muy variada temática, que resultan originales, variados y entretenidos. Alg......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 01, 2020

This is Ken Liu's second collection of contemporary science fiction after Invisible Planets and it is a great read. There is a wide variety of styles and lots of female authors. I hope some more of their longer work gets translated into English. Makes me want to go back and re-read The Three Body Pr......more

Goodreads review by Matt on November 29, 2020

If you look back to my review of Invisible Planets, I praised Ken Liu for bringing more Chinese SFF to Western audiences after the flashbulb-debut of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past and delighted in the seven writers' works he'd selected for the collection. Going into Broken Stars I was......more

Goodreads review by Kalin on May 25, 2020

A wonderfully diverse (and wonderfully translated) anthology. Highly recommended. My impressions of the individual stories are here: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Librukie on May 25, 2021

Segunda antología de relatos de autores chinos editada por Ken Liu. Ya Planetas Invisibles me gustó, aunque noté algún que otro altibajo en los relatos, no todos me gustaron, aunque la inmensa mayoría sí. Tardé en ponerme con Estrellas Rotas porque coincidió que todas las reseñas que había leído coi......more