The Collected Short Stories
By (Author) Cixin Liu
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
2nd December 2025
11th September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Short stories
895.136
Hardback
1056
Width 170mm, Height 240mm
The collected short stories of Cixin Liu, author of The Three Body Problem trilogy (now a major Netflix series).
The collection will comprise of stories from:
- The Wandering Earth
- Hold Up the Sky
- Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Collected in a beautiful hardback anthology for the first time.
'Liu conjures a sense of wonder while grounding his tales in well-wrought characters. This is a masterwork.' * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
'The passion in Liu's writing becomes an unstoppable force. These are the stories that really leap off the page and stick with you long after youre done.' * Tor.com *
'This audacious and ultimately optimistic early work will give Liu's English-reading fans a glimpse at his evolution as a writer and give any speculative fiction reader food for deep thought.' * Shelf Awareness on Supernova Era *
PRAISE FOR CIXIN LIU:
'A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology' - George R.R. Martin
'Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense' - Barack Obama
'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' - The New Yorker
'SF in the grand style' Guardian
'Mind-altering and immersive'
Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.