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Published: 2nd July 2024
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Published: 2nd July 2024
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Jumpnauts
By (Author) Hao Jingfang
Translated by Ken Liu
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
2nd July 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
895.136
Paperback
368
Width 148mm, Height 229mm
A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Awardwinning author of Folding Beijing. 2080, the world is divided, dominated by two antagonistic factions, the Pacific League and the Atlantic Alliance. Tensions are high and the smallest disturbance in the status quo could set the world on fire. And a signal flickering through deep space could be just that spark. As three young scientists form an alliance to decode the signal, they realise that the answers don't only lie in deep space, they also lie deep in humanity's past. What they discover will change everything: our past, present and future. If we have one.
Hao Jingfang won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, marking the first Hugo awarded to a Chinese woman. Hao works as a macroeconomics researcher at China Development Research Foundation in Beijing. Ken Liu is the author of the epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty, as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and other top genre awards around the world for his fiction. A programmer and lawyer, he speaks and consults on futurism, technology history, and sustainable storytelling.