Humanity must rally together to save the Earth when its existence is threatened by the violent death throes of the sun. Cixin Liu's 'The Wandering Earth' is now realised as a graphic novel for the first time.
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
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'
A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology
Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense'
A milestone in Chinese science fiction
A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters... Exhilarating, mind-stretching'
China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke
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.
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.