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The Wandering Earth
by Cixin Liu
I forgot where I got The Wandering Earth, but it has been sitting on my kindle for more than a year. It's a short read, so I'm not sure why I didn't start it sooner.
The premise is that scientists discover that the sun will die in 300-500 years and swallow up all the planets in its inner orbit, including Earth, in the process. To ensure survival, the people of Earth decide to find a nearby star for its new sun and somehow propel Earth out of its current orbit, out of the solar system, and toward this new sun.
This may sound very scientific and space-travel-like, but the story itself is more about the people on earth. I especially liked the rich descriptions of the different phases of this new elliptical orbit Earth has to take as it gets ready to exit the solar system. The way Earth's atmosphere and topography changes was surreal, as was the fact that most coastal cities become destroyed because of 300 foot waves.
One thing that was nagging me was, how did Honolulu, Hawaii end up surviving if the polar ice caps all melted and most coastal cities are underwater?
For how much I put off reading this book, I enjoyed it immensely. The writing has a poetic feel to it and everything feels like it's being seen through a dimmer filter.
The premise is that scientists discover that the sun will die in 300-500 years and swallow up all the planets in its inner orbit, including Earth, in the process. To ensure survival, the people of Earth decide to find a nearby star for its new sun and somehow propel Earth out of its current orbit, out of the solar system, and toward this new sun.
This may sound very scientific and space-travel-like, but the story itself is more about the people on earth. I especially liked the rich descriptions of the different phases of this new elliptical orbit Earth has to take as it gets ready to exit the solar system. The way Earth's atmosphere and topography changes was surreal, as was the fact that most coastal cities become destroyed because of 300 foot waves.
One thing that was nagging me was, how did Honolulu, Hawaii end up surviving if the polar ice caps all melted and most coastal cities are underwater?
For how much I put off reading this book, I enjoyed it immensely. The writing has a poetic feel to it and everything feels like it's being seen through a dimmer filter.