Three-Body Problem | Liu | All Numbered/Signed | 6 Matching #

Description: Overview: The 7 limited/numbered Cixin Liu books from Subterranean Press, where the first six books have matching numbers. Books 1-3 form the Wandering Earth Trilogy, Book 4 is official sequal by author Baoshu, Book 5 and 7 are standalone novels, and Book 6 is a collection of short stories. Netflix is producing a series based on books 1-3, and will be out later this year. Titles:1. The Three-Body Problem (by Cixin Liu, illustrated by Marc Simonetti) 2. The Dark Forest (by Cixin Liu, illustrated by Marc Simonetti) 3. Death's End (by Cixin Liu, illustrated by Marc Simonetti) 4. The Redemption of Time (by Baoshu, illustrated by Marc Simonetti) 5. Supernova Era (by Cixin Liu, illustrated by Dominic Harman)6. To Hold Up the Sky (by Cixin Liu, illustrated by David Ho)7. The Cretaceous Past (by Cixin Liu, illustrated by David Ho) Edition: Limited/Numbered set from Subterranean Press, signed by Cixin Liu (books 1-3, 5-7) and the translators Ken Liu and Joel Martinsen (see photos). Book 4 signed by the author Baoshu. Books 1-6 have matching numbers (#4XX) and are cloth-bound. The Cretaceous Past only had 250 copies so cannot match the #4XX number. It comes with a slipcase and is leather bound. Any available rights will be transferred to the new owner. Condition:Books 1, 2, and 6 are Like New. All other books are Brand New. Shipping: Books will be carefully packaged by, and intended for, a book collector From the Publisher The Three-Body ProblemCixin Liu, China’s preeminent science fiction writer for more than twenty years, first came to the attention of English speaking readers with the 2014 publication of The Three-Body Problem, the opening movement of a dazzling, dizzying trilogy called The Remembrance of Earth’s Past. Its appearance here was an immediate cultural event, and it became the first work in translation ever to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel. It isn’t hard to understand why.The book takes its title from a classical physics problem involving the effects – gravitational and climatic – of three celestial bodies occupying a limited space. It also refers to an immensely sophisticated “game” in which players enter a world (Trisolaris) dominated by three different suns. Under the shifting influence of these suns, Trisolaris cycles repeatedly between “Chaotic Eras” and “Stable Eras” as their planet moves inexorably toward destruction. When a signal from Earth—a compatible planet—reaches them, the Trisolarians initiate an extremely long-range plan to vacate their dying planet and make Earth their new home.This is the central element in an enormously erudite narrative that ranges from the Cultural Revolution of 1967 to the imperiled present, illuminating events from the alternating perspectives of its human and non-human protagonists. Seamlessly combining politics, social history, and rigorous hard science, The Three-Body Problem is an alien invasion story unlike any you have ever read. It offers the sort of speculative pleasures only science fiction can provide, and leaves us waiting, satisfied and anxious, for the unpredictable pleasures still to come.The Subterranean Press edition of The Three-Body Problem will be oversize, printed in two colors throughout on 80# Finch, and feature a number of full-page full-color interior illustrations. The lettered edition will also include a gatefold illustration not in the limited. Those who purchase The Three-Body Problem direct from us will have first rights to preorder the next novel in the trilogy, The Dark Forest.Limited: 500 signed numbered copies, oversized, printed in two colors The Cretaceous PastAll the years of human civilization represent an infinitesimal fraction of the time since life first burgeoned on planet Earth. How likely is it, then, in those great depths of time, that humanity alone benefitted from the spark of intelligence which gave rise to culture?This is the question posed by China’s preeminent science fiction writer for more than twenty years and Hugo-Award-winner for The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu in his magisterial new short novel, The Cretaceous Past. The answer he offers is unexpected, supposing an unlikely alliance between the largest creatures in the world of the deep past and some of the smallest.And it all begins with a toothache.When a Tyrannosaurus rex suffers pain from meat trapped between its enormous teeth, a nearby colony of ants risks entering the great creature’s maw to make their own repast from the remains of the dinosaur’s most recent meal. From this humble beginning, over the course of millennia, a symbiotic civilization achieves amazing advances, reaching dizzying heights in countless endeavors scientific and social, facing dangers and exploiting opportunities at every turn. In this absorbing tale, Cixin Liu manages to describe the history of successive epochs of a might-have-been world, doing for the past what Olaf Stapledon’s classic Last and First Men did for the future. Here, Liu embarks on a new journey, sure to please the legions of devoted readers of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy.The Cretaceous Past offers Liu at his finest, demonstrating flights of imagination and depths of speculation sure to reward new fans and old alike.Limited: 250 signed numbered copies, housed in a custom slipcaseTrade: 1500 fully cloth-bound hardcover copiesFrom Publishers Weekly:“Liu (the Three-Body Problem trilogy) delivers a sharp allegory of ant-dinosaur relations in this high concept alternate history… Liu mingles real science with prescientific beliefs and invests his critters with enough anthropomorphic attributes to make them understandable but not so much as to render them humans in costumes, similar to Orwell’s masterful pigs and sheep in Animal Farm. Fans of smart, politically charged sci-fi should check this out.”From Paul di Filippo, in Locus Online:“More light-hearted (although still full of Liu’s patented grand-scale disasters), it’s an old-fashioned speculative look back into the deep past, as well as a wry parable about politics, hubris, power, competitiveness, and intolerance… In the end, this novel harks to no other author more than Stanislaw Lem. It’s like one of those lunatic forays into some bizarre yet organically authentic culture as detailed by cyber-savants Trurl and Klapaucius. From an Olympian perspective, jumping in and out of assorted time frames and viewpoint characters, Liu seeks to convey that shared glory and shame that attends to all attempts by any kind of sentience to mold the physical universe nearer to the heart’s desire—even if the hearts in question are as small as mustard seeds or as large as furnaces.”

Price: 2400 USD

Location: Eugene, Oregon

End Time: 2024-10-21T07:01:41.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD