Cixin Liu's The Wandering Earth

The whole project offers a fascinating insight to a ‘new’ author, with the graphic novels serving as a gateway drug to a traditionally inaccessible voice in the realm of SFF * SciFiNow *The graphic novel format enables both ends of the spectrum to be demonstrated wonderfully, with crisp, clear artwork from Stefano Raffaele that fairly glows on the page. Scene-setting panels that break across the top of a double page give voice to fabulous vistas of future cities, scenes of natural disasters, epic sunrises and large-scale technological installations. They are panels that draw in the eye and that you can spend quite some time absorbing… This is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing graphic novel that has whetted my appetite further for the forthcoming editions in the series’ * SF Crowsnest *A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology – George R.R. MartinWildly imaginative, really interesting… The scope of it was immense’ – Barack ObamaA milestone in Chinese science fiction * New York Times *A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters… Exhilarating, mind-stretching’ * TLS *China’s answer to Arthur C. Clarke * The New Yorker *

Christophe Bec was born in France and grew up in Morocco and the south of France. He learnt to read with Tintin, which sparked a lifelong interest in comics and graphic novels. He studied illustration at the Ecole Européene Supérieure de l’Image in Angoulême – home of the prestigious International Comics Festival. As writer or illustrator, Christophe Bec’s works include Absolute Zero, Sanctuary, Bunker and Prometheus; as well as Pandemonium, Sarah, Olympus Mons and Under written in collaboration with illustrator Stefano Raffaele.

Stefano Raffaele was born in Milan, Italy, where he still lives now. He began his career working on the Lazarus Ledd series, before moving to the USA where he worked on famous characters including Batman, Conan the Barbarian and X-Men. Since 2007, he has worked in collaboration with writer Christophe Bec, publishing successful titles including Pandemonium, Sarah, Olympus Mons and Under.

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.