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The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai...Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China - taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019. Liu's writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.

When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge.

Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died.Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged.And so the countdown begins.Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running.But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world. And though they imagine a better, brighter future, they may not be able to escape humanity's dark instincts...

Cílem této nové učebnice standardní hovorové čínštiny je vést studujícího po nejpřímější cestě ke zvládnutí nového jazyka. Důraz je kladen především na schopnost začít komunikovat co nejdříve. Tomu je přizpůsobena struktura učebnice – látka v lekcích se odvíjí od autentických dialogů. Věty v rozhovorech jsou tedy od začátku složitější, ale to je jen drobná daň za to, že ihned na konci první lekce studující používá reálnou čínštinu. Připravené dialogy fungují jako sada ověřených šablon, do kterých se studující naučí správně dosazovat připravenou slovní zásobu. Koláče nebývají bez práce, ale díky praktickému návodu se studující bude z vlastnoručně napečených koláčů radovat prakticky okamžitě. Učebnice je vhodná pro výuku s učitelem i pro samouky; pracuje s moderními reáliemi a představuje jazyk v jeho přirozeném prostředí.