Title: The Wandering Earth
Author: Liu Cixin
Publisher: Actes Sud
Year: 2020
Pages: 80
Size: 10 x 18,8 x 0,7 cm
Language: French
Condition: like new
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Publisher’s summary:
"I had never seen the night. I had never seen the stars. I had never seen spring, nor autumn, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Braking Era. The Earth had just stopped turning."
When astrophysicists discover that the conversion of hydrogen into helium has accelerated inside the Sun, they understand that our star is about to transform into a red giant that will inevitably swallow the Earth. To counter this programmed extinction of humanity, the nations band together to set in motion a project of staggering ambition: to develop gigantic engines in order to turn the blue planet into a real spacecraft and send it on a search for a new star...
In this novella written in 2000, Liu Cixin already demonstrates all the talent that will be on display in the trilogy of the Three-Body Problem. Available on Netflix under the title «The Wandering Earth,» the film adaptation released in 2019 climbed to third place at the worldwide box office.