The Collected Stories

Cixin Liu

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Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
02 December 2025

Science fiction; Short stories; Science Fiction

The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem.

From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore our place in the universe, pitting the vastness of space against the fragility of humanity.

The scale of Liu’s imagination is immense, exploring both the infinite and the infinitesimal, the epic and the intimate. Here, machine intelligences create art or sow terror, humanity is annihilated or created anew, alien civilizations come bearing gifts, or they come in the cold logic of universal war. Solar systems are devoured, planets are turned into spaceships, and time is reversed.

With a physicist’s mind and a philosopher’s heart, Liu takes us to the boundaries of the cosmos and consciousness... but that’s just where his imagination begins.

STORIES INCLUDE: With Her Eyes, Contraction, End of the Microcosmos, Whale Song, The Wandering Earth, Fire in the Earth, The Micro-Era, Full-Spectrum Barrage Jamming, The Village Teacher, The Messenger, Fibers, Sun of China, Devourer, Sea of Dreams, The Thinker, Destiny, Heard It in the Morning, Butterfly, Cannonball, Cloud of Poems, Glory and Dreams, Of Ants and Dinosaurs, Mirror, The Circle, For the Benefit of Mankind, Taking Care of God, Ode to Joy, Mountain, 2018-04-01, Moonlight, Curse 5.0, The Time Migration.

By: Cixin Liu
Imprint: Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 52mm
Weight: 1.000kg
ISBN: 9781035903931
ISBN 10: 1035903938
Pages: 960
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for The Collected Stories

'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 you’re 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' * Daily Mail *