{"product_id":"book-hl3t","title":"A View from the Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Narrator Brian Nishii perfectly conveys the author's joy and feelings of isolation at discovering science fiction as a child, the exhilaration of world-building as a science fiction writer, and the imaginative process of predicting our world in 50 years.\"—\u003ci\u003eAudioFile\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We’re as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe sci-fi fans are people from the future.\"—Cixin Liu, from the essay \"Sci-Fi Fans\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA VIEW FROM THE STARS\u003c\/i\u003e features a range of short works from the past three decades of \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Science fiction without guile, without snark, without ironic disaffection and all its exhausting modern baggage. It just asks \u003ci\u003ewhat would happen?\u003c\/i\u003e Waits for someone to answer. And then it asks again.\"—NPR on the works of Cixin Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49351073988912,"sku":"BDhl3t","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/527281-hl3t-Square.jpg?v=1734304539","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hl3t","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}