To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu
To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu
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To Hold Up the Sky

Author: Cixin Liu

Narrator: Brian Nishii, Catherine Ho, Emily Woo Zeller, Feodor Chin, Greg Chun, Nancy Wu, Natalie Naudus, P. J. Ochlan, Robert Fass, Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 13 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2020

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past.

In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physicas to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself.

Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's most visionary writers.

Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in this stunning collection.

Stories included are:
Contraction
Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming
The Village Teacher
Fire in the Earth
Time Migration
Ode to joy
Cloud of Poems
Mirror
Sea of Dreams
Cloud of Poems
The Thinker

This program is read by: Vikas Adam, Feodor Chin, Greg Chun, Robert Fass, Catherine Ho, Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, P. J. Ochlan, Emily Woo Zeller, and Nancy Wu

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About Cixin Liu

CIXIN LIU is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People’s Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award, an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award. Prior to becoming a writer, he worked as an engineer in a power plant. His novels include The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End.

About Robert Fass

Winner of the prestigious Audie Award (for History and Audio Drama), veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. A seven-time Audie nominee with over 100 unabridged audiobooks to his credit, Robert has also earned multiple Earphones Awards, including for his narration of Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Robert has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, John Steinbeck, Carlos Fuentes, Isaac Asimov, Ellery Queen, Steve Berry, Jeffrey Deaver, and Nele Neuhaus, plus bestselling nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, and business.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on October 10, 2020

Having been a long-time fan of Liu Cixin, it isn't much of a surprise that I fell into his short story collection. That being said, I *have* read a number of these from within other collections. This may have affected my overall impression of the entire thing. THAT being said, his stories ARE general......more

Goodreads review by TS on October 03, 2021

ARC received from publisher, Tor, in exchange for an honest review. 3.5 stars. True to his form as seen in his most renowned science fiction series, The Remembrance of Earth's Past, Cixin Liu's imagination in this short story collection, To Hold Up The Sky, was truly remarkable. The Three-Body Problem......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on March 28, 2024

3.5 Stars Video Review: [URL not allowed] This was a good short story collection. However I made the mistake of reading this one immediately after reading The Wandering Earth collection. That one was so incredible that this one paled in comparison. Some of the stories were better than other......more

Goodreads review by Antonio TL on October 10, 2021

Los cuentos Cixin Liu son muy imaginativos como lo es su trilogía El Problema de los 3 cuerpos. Si bien esta colección es en general un poco optimista para mi gusto, me gusta la forma en que el autor juega con el tiempo, las distancias, el arte y la tecnología con sus profundas influencias en el com......more

Goodreads review by Javir11 on November 21, 2021

5,75/10 Los primeros relatos no me desagradaron, incluso alguno de ellos me gustó, pero a partir de cierto momento se me hizo muy pesada la lectura, y eso cuando hablamos sobre textos de 20-50 páginas no es nada positivo. Iba a dejarlo en 2 estrellas, pero tampoco me parecía justo, al final se queda e......more

Quotes

“This audacious and ultimately optimistic early work will give Liu's English-reading fans a glimpse at his evolution as a writer and give any speculative fiction reader food for deep thought.”—Shelf Awareness on Supernova Era

Praise for the Three-Body trilogy

“Wildly imaginative.”—President Barack Obama

“The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.”—The Wall Street Journal

“A breakthrough book . . . A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.”—George R. R. Martin

“Tackles politics, philosophy, and virtual reality in a story that moves at a thriller's pace.”—The Washington Post

“Evokes the thrill of exploration and the beauty of scale.”—The New Yorker

“Stunning, elegant . . . A science fiction epic of the most profound kind.”—NPR

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