A review by physteph
Supernova Era by Cixin Liu

5.0

At its core, this book is about the about the many ways that adults fail to understand children. Beginning with the irradiation of the earth, caused by a nearby supernova, which sentences everyone over the age of 13 to death within a year. In that time, the adults attempt to teach their descendants how to keep the world running, in the same manner that they have been running it. Though there are some struggles, this plan seems to work well for the most part, and the adults are free to rest in peace, with the children to care for the world that is left for them. This peace does not last a day, or even an hour, before the children's world evolves into many different kinds of disorder that the adults could not possibly imagined for them.
Interesting speculative fiction that centers around children, but doesn't portray children as anything more or less than what they are, just that they fundamentally different from the adults around them.