dropitlolo 's review for:

The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

4.0

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Collection of short stories by Cixin Liu, the author of the Remembrance Trilogy, one of my favorite sci-fi sagas of all time. This book had a lot of really unique stories set in a near-future earth. Some were better than others, for example I thought that 'For the good of Mankind' and 'Mountain' were spectacular, while I wasn't a huge fan of 'The Wandering Earth' or 'Cannonball'. They were still good, just not really entertaining. However, my one big gripe with the stories in this book, as well as all of Liu's work is the atrocious dialogue. I don't know if it's something that's lost in translation, or is just the style in China, but every casual conversation that isn't exposition is cringe-worthy. However, this doesn't particularly take away from the stories themselves and they can still be enjoyed as a whole. I look forward to Liu's future work.