"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
I'm sure you've heard it, in some form or another: it's the famous Infinite Monkey Theorem, and it centres on the idea that, given an infinite amount of time and permutations, a monkey with a typewriter would be able to replicate the works of William...
This is a really splendid collection of stories, some shorter than other, and I wouldn’t have collected them this way: you have proper sci-fi stories and fairy tales, stories about science (with very little fiction), a story on coal mines and a war tale. But,...
As I was saying a few days ago, some of Cixin Liu's short stories have been adapted into wonderful graphic novels. This one is a heartfelt story that touches many topics that are dear to the author's heart, mainly the importance of knowledge and the impact...
Cixin Liu is one of the most brilliant sci-fi writers of our time and some of his short stories have been adapted into graphic novels."For the Benefit of Mankind" is a story I found in the collectiontitled after "The Wandering Earrh" and one of the...
The collection is extraordinary and spans from grand feats of sci-fi imagination (the titular story) to humorous tales such as the one in which a writer called Cixin Liu becomes homeless after spending all his money and energy on a grand saga called The Three-Thousand-Body...
This is just the second book I have read by this author, following, of course, the previous title in the series, so I don’t claim to be an expert. Nevertheless, for those who wish to approach and enjoy his work, I can give you two...
