Supernova Era

By: Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

An NPR Best Book of the Year - 2019

"Feodor Chin is the perfect narrator to deliver this story.... His voice is clear and precise, even when providing stellar accented inflections for the Chinese dialogue. Overall, a perfect balance of appropriately didactic storytelling and an engaging narration is geared to fascinate listeners." (AudioFile Magazine)

From science fiction legend Cixin Liu, the New York Times best-selling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem, comes a vision of the future that unfolds like Lord of the Flies on a global scale in Supernova Era.

In those days, Earth was a planet in space.

In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth.

On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end.

Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of 13 will die.

And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running.

But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left to them. And in shaping the future however they want, will the children usher in an era of bright beginnings or final mistakes?

©2004, 2019 Liu Cixin; Translation copyright by China Educational Publications Import & Export Corp., Ltd. (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

Cixin Liu never disappoints

Very nice book. Just like all the Cixin Liu's books and series of books.

Interesting story

5th book I’ve heard from this author and I’m searching for the next one by Cixin Liu

Brilliant idea

Interesting story, unique point of view, I think it is over optimistic, but let's hope

Interesting idea disjointed delivery

The premise to this book is really intriguing and got me engaged for the first third of the story.
However, if you told me that this book had 4 to 5 different authors who wrote their versions and then they just combined it into one story. I would believe you.
I am not sure why the author decided to out of nowhere include the US children and then take on this very puzzling choice of discussing war games that were horrific , but also inconsequential to the story.

The conclusion felt unsettled and left me going okay while that just happened.
Hard to recommended this book, but it's not a bad book. Just a poorly delivered concept.

Very cool thought experiment

I thought this was a great exploration of what could happen in a scenario. If even more interest is viewing my own nation (USA) from a Chinese perspective. We see and read plenty of media about China from the American perspective, but not much the other way. It certainly is not a flattering image, but we don't typically paint the best portraits of others, either. I think it is also fair to say that Cixin Liu did not flatter any nation's children, including China's.

Fascinated by its creative and intellectual value

Its intellectual vision embraces politics, economics, psychology, sociology, history and so on. Mesmerized by the artistic beauty of the story as well.

Wow imagination

First 2/3 of the book are incredible. I liked absolute everything there - wow, this was full learning-entertaining experience...

thoughtful and imaginative

while a world without children has been imagined in a lot of stories, this approach is fresh and take unexpected turns.

strange story

I like the writing;however the story line is not very good. I urge you to read it and reach your own conclusion.

WTF did I just read?

If you read this book to get some clarification about what Liu said in his recent interview in the New Yorker, good luck to you.