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The Supernova Era

By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
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From Cixin Liu, the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of The Three Body Problem, comes a new science fiction masterpiece in Supernova Era.

In those days, Earth was a planet in space. In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth. On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end. Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of 13 will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running. But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world. And though they imagine a better, brighter world, they may bring about a future so dark humanity won't survive.

©2004 Liu Cixin (P)2019 Head of Zeus Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Fiction

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I very much enjoyed listening to the book. this is my third book that I've read from the author and I'm not disappointed. The plot line follows certain logic and there are many instances of unsaid horrors and side events that kind of support the story. for example, the book never really says that most nations collapsed but it did only mention top super powers. even the great usa is implied to be down to 5 states (with their five star flag) also, if it wasn't for the Chinese quantum AI, China would have also probably dissolved into 1000s of pieces of smaller kingdoms. I kind of don't buy into the whole "30 years later and there is a colony in mars". sure, lots of work and money was probably invested because of the fact that the kids really wanted to see mars but yea, I would have thought that there should have been at least a few decades or centuries of a super mediaval dark age because kids can't really take care of themselves in such massive groups.


anyway, it's a good story if you already like this kind of literature.

Awesome but strange

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It is something else.
The culture influence is really interesting, seeing how the author envisions the world.
Close to a young adult novel but a great idea.
The end was a little... disappointing and there is a huuuge missed opportunity in my opinion.
There is this incredible AI that pretty much makes the entire story move along in the middle but then it is gone. Just gone.
I did expect that to be more of a pivot point but it feels like the writer just changed his mind in the middle of the story and went in another direction.

Interesting but not great

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yet another great book from a wonderful author well thought out and filled with wonderful characters

the general idea of the story

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Earliest of the author's major works - so he was still finding his feet.
Some great ideas - but quickly gets preposterous.
Ignore unless you are on a mission.

Great start - loses its way - never comes back

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This has a great concept and some interesting subjects broached. Makes you if are getting any of it right?

Just great

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The premise is fascinating and I was hoping for an interesting read. However the very masculine take on things was very disappointing. It's given me plenty of food for thought though!
The narrator of this and Liu's other works is very flat, I would hesitate to chose him again unless it was a 'must read' book.

Starts off well but ...

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A well told tale of what if.....
The author, as ever, creates characters of scary authenticity and goes beyond the nth degree in another wonderful exposee on the human condition.

Pure, brilliant and chilling sci-fi

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A novel of alternate history.

As I was reading this I almost began to feel this could’ve been Lord of the flies set in the future. A very good read.

Children run the world!

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If this book is typical of those from Chinese authors then it serves as a window into how the people of that country think. For that reason this and the other books from this author are useful and in a way interesting.

The book itself is to be blunt awful. It reads like a bad children’s book. The concept is flawed, the plot is underdeveloped and the characters lack any depth at all.

Yet is recommend it for that window into there thought. For that it does have some value.

An insight into Chinese thought

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The idea and the beginning of this book are great. Liu did it again, I thought. But the children era started and the book turned into a mindless trash. It’s like author never knew any kids and has no idea how they act.

Like it’s written by two different authors

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