More by Liu Cixin
Quantitative change eventually gives way to qualitative change.
A View from the Stars (2024)
Numbness to the universe is pervasive in society.
A View from the Stars (2024)
That humans will biologically alter themselves is inevitable, which makes life sciences the most terrifying of the sciences.
A View from the Stars (2024)
The worlds described in today’s sci-fi are entirely different from those of a few decades ago, whereas today’s fantasy worlds aren’t so different from those of the Middle Ages.
A View from the Stars (2024)
It’s an interesting thing, really: The rigorous, science-based predictions of scientists and futurologists and the spirited “flights of fancy” of sci-fi writers are just about equally (in)accurate!
A View from the Stars (2024)
A professor of philosophy once said that lesson one for freshman in his field should consist of a long, hard look late at night at the stars. I think this would be an even more apt first lesson for aspiring writers of sci-fi.
A View from the Stars (2024)
The truth is that sci-fi and fantasy have many more similarities than differences. They have the same goal: both strive to create ethereal, free worlds of the imagination from which readers can derive the shocks and delights of beauty. (Personally, I’ve never thought it’s sci-fi’s job to represent reality or human nature.) The only difference between the two is the source of their imaginings.
A View from the Stars (2024)
The cosmos had not chosen humanity after all. In the old timeline, humans had created the apex civilization on earth, but that had been a one-time and accidental chance. In our human conceit, we’d taken the accidental for the inevitable.
A View from the Stars (2024)
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