{"product_id":"la-vista-desde-las-estrellas-a-view-from-the-stars-9788466677622","title":"La vista desde las estrellas","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe book that for the first time gathers the essays and stories of Cixin Liu, the acclaimed author of The Three-Body Problem.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A View from the Stars compiles a wide variety of short texts written in the last three decades by Cixin Liu, the greatest master of science fiction since Isaac Asimov, thanks to his crowning work, the Three-Body Trilogy. The essays and interviews included in it explain some of his experiences as a reader, writer, and science fiction lover throughout his life. Likewise, in his masterful fictional stories, we witness the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years. The result is the unique perspective of one of the most visionary minds of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"We are mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from the past to the future and from the future to the past, and we float like clouds of gas between nebulas. In the blink of an eye, we can reach the limits of the universe, become a quark, or swim inside a stellar core... Now we are few and weak, like humble fireflies, but we are growing in number like grass in spring. Science fiction fans are the inhabitants of the future.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. We sci-fi fans are people from the future.\"―Cixin Liu, from the essay \"Sci-Fi Fans\"\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17275946\"\u003eLiu Cixin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ediciones B\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788466677622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8466677623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e Spanish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC028040\"\u003eScience Fiction | Collections \u0026amp; Anthologies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC028020\"\u003eScience Fiction | Hard Science Fiction\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCixin Liu\u003c\/b\u003e is the most prolific and popular science fiction author in the People's Republic of China. Liu has won the Galaxy Award (the equivalent of the Hugo Award in his country) eight times and the Chinese Nebula, before making his \"Three-Body Trilogy\" a work capable of selling a million copies in China alone, sparking unanimous interest throughout the West, winning the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and earning endorsements from the likes of Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His enormous success is now repeated in all international markets, thanks to genre fans, but also, and above all, to the millions of readers interested in current geopolitics and in China's past and future. It is all of them who have managed to turn a perfect stranger, arrived from the most mysterious and hermetic East, into one of the great literary sensations of recent years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Before becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer at a power plant in the Chinese city of Yangquán, in Shanxi province, now temporarily closed due to air pollution.","brand":"Ediciones B","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48460689899757,"sku":"9788466677622","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_21a9dfc1-b329-4422-bca2-8118e6fb3ac2.jpg?v=1753667998","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/la-vista-desde-las-estrellas-a-view-from-the-stars-9788466677622","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}