From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Liu's writing 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.

Stories included are:
1. The Village Teacher.
2. The Time Migration.
3. 2018-04-01.
4. Fire in the Earth.
5. Contraction.
6. Mirror.
7. Ode to Joy.
8. Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming.
9. Sea of Dreams.
10. Cloud of Poems.
11. The Thinker.