A review by sweetcuppincakes
The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

4.0

It's more of a collection of fascinating ideas than stories. Many of the sci-fi concepts necessitate a lot of explanation and exposition, which is fine when the narrator fills the reader in. But when Liu opts to have a character go on and on about what has transpired in x years while someone was in hibernation, or when an alien species explains their entire civilization in a way that humans could understand (i.e. us readers could understand), things get awkwardly unrealistic and clunky, prose-wise. That's really the only downside here though – the ideas and imagination of possible futures and other beings is awe-inspiring and, like with the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, many of these ideas are bound to stay with you for a long time.