Hold Up The Sky
Written by Cixin Liu
Narrated by Bruno Roubicek
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About this audiobook
Stories included are:
1. The Village Teacher.
2. The Time Migration.
3. 2018-04-01.
4. Fire in the Earth.
5. Contraction.
6. Mirror.
7. Ode to Joy.
8. Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming.
9. Sea of Dreams.
10. Cloud of Poems.
11. The Thinker.
2020 Head of Zeus Ltd
Cixin Liu
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.
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- mohsinRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Top class writer that stimulates the brain through this anthology. It makes one think and invest his time into it without you knowing it.
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- Evan and CarisRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Each tale more superb than the next.
Utterly top shelf, completely riveting, delightful Sci-Fi.