To Hold Up the Sky

By: Cixin Liu

Narrated by: Brian Nishii, Catherine Ho, Emily Woo Zeller, Feodor Chin, Greg Chun, Nancy Wu, Natalie Naudus, P. J. Ochlan, Robert Fass, Vikas Adam

From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past.

In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physicas to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a time very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move; to 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to the very collapse of the universe itself.

Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these stories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take you across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's most visionary writers.

Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in this stunning collection.

Stories included are:
Contraction
Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming
The Village Teacher
Fire in the Earth
Time Migration
Ode to joy
Cloud of Poems
Mirror
Sea of Dreams
Cloud of Poems
The Thinker

This program is read by: Vikas Adam, Feodor Chin, Greg Chun, Robert Fass, Catherine Ho, Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, P. J. Ochlan, Emily Woo Zeller, and Nancy Wu

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

Critic reviews

<p>“This audacious and ultimately optimistic early work will give Liu's English-reading fans a glimpse at his evolution as a writer and give any speculative fiction reader food for deep thought.”—<i>Shelf Awareness </i>on <i>Supernova Era</i><br><br>Praise for the <i>Three-Body</i> trilogy<br><br>“Wildly imaginative.”—President Barack Obama<br><br>“<i>The War of the Worlds</i> for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.”—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>“A breakthrough book . . . A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.”—George R. R. Martin<br><br>“Tackles politics, philosophy, and virtual reality in a story that moves at a thriller's pace.”—<i>The Washington Post</i><br><br>“Evokes the thrill of exploration and the beauty of scale.”—<i>The New Yorker</i><br><br>“Stunning, elegant . . . A science fiction epic of the most profound kind.”—NPR</p>

Great collection read by multiple narrators.

Disregard any review complaint about the different narrators being hard to get used to. The audio is great for this book. I liked the creativity shown in each story. Chinese science fiction is so unique in its imagination and poetic prose.

Epic

To describe these stories as epic is inaccurate. Epic requires the use of an exponent, so let’s call these stories epic to the power of 23. And the language is beautiful.

Entertaining & thought-provoking

Well-told stories involving much real science, in addition to fantasy. Much food for thought, in each story.

Fun to explore

a new short story author. Stories were interesting an I enjoyed listening to the many different performers.

Great and Entertaining Collection of short stories

Very enjoyable, especially the Mirror. Creative interpretation of the modern physics and cosmology concepts in these stories.