The Supernova Era

by Cixin Liu (Author), Cixin Liu (Author), Joel Martinsen (Translator)

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  2019

  $12.02

  'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired.

  The radiation from a suddenly glowing supernova is destined to kill everyone on Earth over the age of thirteen. Only children, who tissues can still regenerate, will survive. The doomed older generation desperately throws its time and resources into educating the children of tomorrow and future leaders of the world.

  With the adults gone, the children become divided: some forge an imitation of the previous society, aided by the discovery of a new power source utilizing the supernova's energy; the others devolve into savagery and violence.

  It is a stark, mournful story of survival, probing the fragility of moral inhibition, and what happens when the civilisation we know collapses.

  'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' The New Yorker.

  'Wildly imaginative, really interesting ... The scope of it was immense' Barack Obama.