- Hugo Award Winner, Human-alien encounters, Imaginary wars and battles, Fiction
Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular.
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- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- 刘慈欣, Vincent Schmitt, Gwennaël Gaffric, Marc Simonetti
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 417
- Publisher
- Ithaki Yayinlari, Howes Limited, W. F., Tor Books
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- Japanese, Italian, tur, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9782330070748
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