A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award-winning author of Folding Beijing.
2080, the world is divided, dominated by two antagonistic factions, the Pacific League and the Atlantic Alliance. Tensions are high and the smallest disturbance in the status quo could set the world on fire.
And a signal flickering through deep space could be just that spark.
As three young scientists form an alliance to decode the signal, they realise that the answers don't only lie in deep space, they also lie deep in humanity's past.
What they discover will change everything: our past, present and future.
If we have one.
Review
A fresh approach - emphasising Chinese history, and including scenes of martial artistry along with philosophical debates - adds extra zest to the popular idea of wise and helpful aliens in this entertaining adventure. - The Guardian
An invigorating, jostling mix of hard science, adventure, Chinese philosophy and good old martial arts. - Daily Mail
A twisty first-contact thriller...genuinely entertaining and inventive - SFX
Relentlessly charming... It is precisely its madcap range that makes it such a treat, its total lack of interest in distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow entertainment or between philosophy and mere fancy - Washington Post
The imagination and world-building is excellent and the debates about the choices and directions that human civilisation faces are interesting - Birmingham SF Group
Book Description
A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award-winning author of Folding Beijing.
About the Author
Hao Jingfang is an author and Economic Research Fellow. She graduated from the Tsinghua University Department of Physics in 2006, and got her doctor's degree from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in 2013. In 2016, her story
Folding Beijing won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and the same year she was selected as one of
People Magazine's 'Top 10 People of the Year'. She is the founder of Fangjing Science Fiction Studio, a film and television studio dedicated to the creation of sustainable science fiction literature and films. In 2018, she became a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School.
Ken Liu is the author of the epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and other top genre awards around the world for his fiction. A programmer and l
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