The Wandering Earth cover art

The Wandering Earth

 Preview
Prime Member Exclusive

3 Months Free

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 15 July 2026 at 11:59 BST.
More purchase options

The Wandering Earth

By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Jeremy Domingo
Get this deal

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £16.20

Buy Now for £16.20

Bloomsbury presents The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu, read by Jeremy Domingo.

NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM.
The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai...

Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.

Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners. This collection's title story, The Wandering Earth, is the biggest SF movie ever to come out of China – taking the world's #1 box office ranking in February 2019.

Liu's writing takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined. With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu's stories show humanity's attempts to reason, navigate and, above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.

'Cixin's trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war' GUARDIAN.

'Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense' BARACK OBAMA, 44th President of the United States.©2013 Cixin Liu Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories China
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c

Critic reviews

Complex and grandiose... this is a mind-altering and immersive experience'
A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts... exhilarating, mind-stretching'
Top-flight SF; smart, informative and engaging
Liu conjures up a genuine sense of wonder
Absolutely fantastic... The hardback is a thing of beauty and its translations are wonderful'
A wonderful collection and brings Cixin Liu's own unique flavour to the genre
Liu uses the exotic foreignness of alien environments to lure readers into an enchanted literary escape pod. The story's backdrop might be one of spectacular beauty or entropic devastation but the distancing effect its abnormality provides is always stirring
Short stories [...] allow an idea to be developed without getting bogged down with having to fill hundreds of pages and in this collection Cixin Liu has ably demonstrated the form... One of the most interesting books I have read'
Liu has continued to write and publish stories which share similar ideas and offer a vision for a better world through scientific fantasy
As with other Chinese works in the genre, it is tempting to draw parallels with the Communist regime, even when the writers themselves do not - and dare not - make those analogies explicit. For Western readers, Chinese sci-fi thus offers a window into the country's hopes and fears. Especially its fears
Beautifully written, the Sun hangs 'motionless in the sky, surrounded by a faint, dawn-like halo'. The ten other stories collected here are just as great
Earth-shattering... While built around a hard-science outlook that acknowledges the bleakness of humanity's chances, these stories also feature a lot of the heart and hopefulness that draw readers to science fiction in the first place. Liu conjures a sense of wonder while grounding his tales in well-wrought characters. This is a masterwork'
All stars
Most relevant
As usual I’m amazed and grateful to have to hear Cixin Liu’s work read to me so well! You can hear both the depth of Liu’s literary lineage and get a sense of the breadth of his mind as he brings forth tale after tale from the stars and from the center of the earth. A wonderful listen!

Astonishing & Admirable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I find the narration a bit robotic enough that I would avoid books narated by the same person in future. I do feel that is very much just my opinion and would encourage listening to a sample

good story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
just a mess of short stories and illogical changes. it goes back on what it said in each new story

an absolute mess

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It’s almost as if the Author forgot his original idea so just started writing short, unrelated stories.
Not good.

This was not good

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As other reviews stated, these are lots of short stories unrelated and conflicting with each other. I got quickly fed up with it, overrated and will return the title.

Not impressed at all

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews