Ten stories, including five works that are laureates of the Chinese "Galaxy" award, are a dazzlingly original ode to planet Earth, its past and future. With a melancholic yet sharp understanding of human nature, Liu portrays humanity's attempts to understand, to find itself, and above all, to survive in the emptiness of space. Liu Cixin takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time to tell the stories of people with fates we could never have imagined.