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Hold Up the Sky

By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
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About this listen

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction.

Stories included are:

  1. 'The Village Teacher'
  2. 'The Time Migration'
  3. '2018-04-01'
  4. 'Fire in the Earth'
  5. 'Contraction'
  6. 'Mirror'
  7. 'Ode to Joy'
  8. 'Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming'
  9. 'Sea of Dreams'
  10. 'Cloud of Poems'
  11. 'The Thinker'
©2020 Cixin Liu (P)2020 Head of Zeus Ltd Anthologies & Short Stories Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Fiction Interstellar Space Short Story

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The best writer currently writing in the Hard Science Fiction genre. Thought provoking ideas in each story.

Hard Science Fiction at its best.

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These are hard stories to get into and besides some flowery language bordering on poetry, there's very little new here or written better elsewhere. It was an experience, no more.

Hard slog

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This was my first voyage into the world of Liu Cixin, and it most certainly will not be my last.

I will admit that I skipped a few of the stories in this book as they were not to my taste, but the others were so good that the five star rating is very much deserved. They are exquisitely written, and the Chinese cultural style is much softer on the mind than its Western counterparts. I thoroughly enjoyed the majority of this book; particularly ‘The Contraction’ and ‘Mirror’.

Bruno Roubicek’s style of storytelling takes a bit of getting used to at first, but I firmly believe he was the perfect voice to convey the softness and intellect of these stories, and the author’s writing style. A very fine performance indeed.

Three Body Problem - here I come!

Beautifully written short stories

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Deeply unusual. Well written but unengaging, I soon found this book a chore and the narrator had a really dull, slow delivery. I won't be reading more from this author.

Some bizarre stories, some dull, some okay.

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I know I’m in the minority with this, but something about Cixin Liu’s writing style (or the translation of it) makes some interesting concepts feel like a drag to listen to

Interesting ideas, but stilted writing style makes it a little dull to listen to

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Decidedly mixed bag here. I'd forgotten this was a collection of short stories going on and was pleasantly surprised to find myself engaged with the first couple. The variation from the standard Western world voice is a nice break.

I think this is a 2 1/2 sort of thing

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The narration of these stories is hopeless,

Very slow and flat with no energy put into the story narration at all.

Ruined the stories for me.

The stories, I suspect, are very good but I cannot go further with this horrible narration.

Probably good stories ruined

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I really enjoyed some of these stories but others dragged quite a bit. I enjoy 刘慈欣's way of viewing the world on a very small and very large scale simultaneously.

A mixed bag

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I can’t say enough how good his writing is. Deep thinking, accurate and beautifully crafted. The narrator’s voice is sufficiently unique to be able to convey the Chinese origin of these exquisitely translated expositions of advanced scientific thinking with real people talking

Cixin Liu at his very best

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Listened to this following completion of the three body problem series, whilst not as good there are some really good stories, some okay ones. It was interesting to see the author toy with different science fiction ideas and thought experiments. You could the creativeness and style that went into creation of three body problem series.

Enjoyable science fiction short stories

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