Holding the Sky, by Cixin Liu

I recently read that the big bang may not be the beginning of something but the end. With which we would find ourselves in the last chords of the symphony of the Universe. The question for the great science fiction writers of any age is to see the confines of reason and science to propose alternatives to limited empiricism from the imagination.

And perhaps that is why literature occasionally kicks science's ass when a new discovery points more to the imagined than the science of the settled or taken for granted from tests based on logic rather than projection. If God exists and is our maker, it will make more sense to trust our imagination and the speculations of literature than in the certainty of our sensory limitations bound by strictly earthly rules.

CixinLiu He is one of the great current storytellers in an arduous task to suppose and imagine. In the first place to entertain but also to reach the wanderings capable of bringing lucidity. And when it comes to randomly brushing the universe, the story is the best possible creative space. Then the time will come to assume that yes, some of those stories were right. In the meantime, we can fully enjoy parallel worlds, planes, boundaries and interstellar battles ...

En Hold the sky, Cixin Liu takes us through time and space. From a rural community in the mountains, where students have to resort to physics to prevent an alien invasion, to the coal mines of northern China, where new technology could potentially save lives or start a fire. that will burn for centuries. From a time very similar to ours, in which superstring computers predict our every move, to ten thousand years from now, when humanity has finally managed to start from scratch. And also until the very end of the universe.

These stories, written between 1999 and 2017 and now published in Spanish, saw the light during decades of great changes in China and will take readers through time and space, from the hand of the most visionary writer of science fiction of the XXI century.

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