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Ken Liu

    Ken Liu è un autore americano di narrativa speculativa le cui opere esplorano spesso l'intersezione tra tecnologia, storia e cultura umana. La sua scrittura è celebrata per la sua ricca immaginazione e la complessa costruzione del mondo, dove ingegneria e mito si intrecciano. Come traduttore ed editore, è anche diventato un tramite cruciale per la fantascienza cinese contemporanea per raggiungere un pubblico globale. Le narrazioni di Liu approfondiscono come l'innovazione e la tradizione plasmano le società umane e i loro destini.

    Ken Liu
    100 Paintings from the Collections of the National Trust
    The Veiled Throne
    Death's End
    The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
    The Wall of Storms
    Speaking Bones
    • The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty - one of the Greatest Fantasy Series of all Time (Time Magazine). Ukyu-Gondé. Stalked by foes and dogged by betrayal, Princess Théra is pursued across a continent vaster than she could ever have imagined, to the hidden valleys of the World's Edge Mountains, into the barrows and subterranean halls of the City of Ghosts, across the ice floes of the far north. She breached the Wall of Storms intent on taking war to the Lyucu homelands, but how do you conquer the unconquerable? Dara. Empress Jia, Prince Phyro and Pékyu Tanvanaki find themselves bound to paths they never would have chosen. Amid atrocity and subterfuge, they will discover that the Courage of Brutes is no substitute for the Grace of Kings, and that little separates the Grace of Kings from the Madness of Tyrants. On both sides of the Wall of Storms, defeat's bitter tears mix with the fruits of knowledge new and ancient as two empires bound by blood and bone, by writ and iron, by time and custom, face a whirlwind that threatens to utterly consume them. The teeth, as they say, are on the board.

      Speaking Bones
    • Death's End

      • 592pagine
      • 21 ore di lettura

      Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

      Death's End
    • The Mythic Dream

      • 368pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      "Madeleine L'Engle once said, 'When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe'. The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations."--Provided by publisher

      The Mythic Dream
    • The three-body problem

      • 434pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredicatable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.

      The three-body problem
    • Made To Order

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      A cutting-edge anthology, published on the 100th anniversary of the word Robot, exploring the impact it has had on the world.

      Made To Order
    • Sixteen of Ken Liu's latest science fiction and fantasy stories - plus a new novelette. From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his latest science fiction and fantasy stories over the last five years - sixteen of his best - plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne .

      The Hidden Girl and Other Stories