first edition Hardcover
2017 · London
by Liu, Cixin
London: Head of Zeus, 2017. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A first UK edition, with full number line indicating the first printing, of The Wandering Earth, the basis for the international film and the first collection of short stories by the Hugo and Locus Award-winning science fiction novelist Cixin Liu, author of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, now a Netflix streaming series written and developed by Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D.B. Weiss with True Blood's Alexander Woo.
9 1/4" X 6". 447pp, plus ads. Mild shelfwear and dust spotting to unclipped pictorial dust jacket featuring the artwork of Stephan Martiniere. Bound in black paper over boards, with white lettering to spine. Moderate wear to binding, with lean to spine, gentle bumping to tail of spine, and hint of a smudge to top edge of text block. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable first UK printing of Cixin Liu's The Wandering Earth.
ABOUT THE WANDERING EARTH:
From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.
These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction 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. (Inventory #: 15941)
9 1/4" X 6". 447pp, plus ads. Mild shelfwear and dust spotting to unclipped pictorial dust jacket featuring the artwork of Stephan Martiniere. Bound in black paper over boards, with white lettering to spine. Moderate wear to binding, with lean to spine, gentle bumping to tail of spine, and hint of a smudge to top edge of text block. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable first UK printing of Cixin Liu's The Wandering Earth.
ABOUT THE WANDERING EARTH:
From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.
These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction 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. (Inventory #: 15941)
