{"product_id":"hold-up-the-sky-paperback","title":"Hold Up The Sky (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Three-Body Problem\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of\naward-winning short stories - a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science\nfiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn \u003ci\u003eHold Up the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from\na rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to\nprevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology\nwill either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to a\ntime very much like our own, when superstring computers predict our every move;\nto 10,000 years in the future, when humanity is finally able to begin anew; to\nthe very collapse of the universe itself.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWritten between 1999 and 2017 and never before published in English, these\nstories came into being during decades of major change in China and will take\nyou across time and space through the eyes of one of science fiction's most\nvisionary writers.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nExperience the limitless and pure joy of Cixin Liu's writing and imagination in\nthis stunning collection.\u003cbr\u003e\nPraise for Cixin Liu:\u003cbr\u003e\n'Cixin's trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich\nnarrative of invasion and war' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense' \u003cb\u003eBARACK\nOBAMA, 44th President of the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and\nhistory, conspiracy theory and cosmology' \u003cb\u003eGEORGE R.R. MARTIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCixin Liu\u003c\/b\u003e is China's #1 SF writer and author\nof \u003ci\u003eThe Three-Body Problem\u003c\/i\u003e - the first ever translated novel to\nwin a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a\npower plant in Yangquan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45010516148431,"sku":"9781838937621","price":21.34,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_4f055c03-b9e7-4563-bd39-b3edf206a371.jpg?v=1777446937","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/hold-up-the-sky-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}