AFinancial TimesBook of the Year
From the author ofThe Three-Body Problem, a collection ofaward-winning short stories – a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard sciencefiction.

InHold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, froma rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics toprevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technologywill either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to atime 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; tothe very collapse of the universe itself.

Written between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, thesestories came into being during decades of major change in China and will takeyou across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction’s mostvisionary writers.

Experience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu’s writing and imagination inthis stunning collection.
Praise for Cixin Liu:
‘Cixin’s trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-richnarrative of invasion and war’GUARDIAN

‘Wildly imaginative, really interesting… The scope of it was immense’BARACKOBAMA, 44th President of the United States

‘A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics andhistory, conspiracy theory and cosmology’GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

‘China’s answer to Arthur C. Clarke’NEW YORKER

About the Author

Cixin Liuis China’s #1 SF writer and authorofThe Three-Body Problem– the first ever translated novel towin a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in apower plant in Yangquan.