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A View from the Stars

✍ Scribed by Cixin Liu

Book ID: 113814616
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781250292124

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✦ Synopsis

**"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,...

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