{"product_id":"a-view-from-the-stars-stories-and-essays","title":"A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We're as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe sci-fi fans are people from the future.\"--Cixin Liu, from the essay \"Sci-Fi Fans\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA VIEW FROM THE STARS\u003c\/i\u003e features a range of short works from the past three decades of \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Science fiction without guile, without snark, without ironic disaffection and all its exhausting modern baggage. It just asks \u003ci\u003ewhat would happen?\u003c\/i\u003e Waits for someone to answer. And then it asks again.\"--NPR on the works of Cixin Liu\u003c\/b\u003e\r","brand":"Cixin Liu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44441518244076,"sku":"9781250292117","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781250292117.jpg?v=1720445372","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/a-view-from-the-stars-stories-and-essays","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}