Bring Her Eyes: Collection of Liu Cixin's Science Fiction Short Stories I
by Liu Cixin
About This Novel
This collection of novels is based on time and includes Liu Cixin's outstanding short science fiction novels since "Whale Song", including popular works adapted into films and TV shows such as "The Wandering Earth" and "Country Teacher", as well as science fiction classics such as "Bring Her Eyes on". Liu Cixin's works are majestic and imaginative. They not only focus on the combination of extreme ethereal and heavy reality, but also emphasize scientific connotation and beauty, setting a new height for Chinese science fiction.
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I am very happy that this edition of Liu's short story collection is named after "Bring Her Eyes on". This novel can be regarded as my science fiction enlightenment reading. As a text for the sixth grade of elementary school, this novel brought great shock to me who was naive and ignorant at that time. Although I didn't understand what the teacher meant by science fiction, as a young person, I believed that there really was a magical pair of glasses in the world that could share vision, smell, and even touch, and that there really was a brave man who stayed in the center of the earth forever. I kept searching for information and news about Sunset 6 on the Internet. Unsurprisingly, I found nothing except the content in the text. But this didn't stop me from falling in love with science fiction. I remembered the essay "Me in Twenty Years" that I wrote when I was younger. In the essay, I had become a scientist and landed on Mars (hahaha). This should be regarded as my earliest science fiction creation. Later, in junior high school, I came into contact with science fiction novels such as "The Three-Body Problem" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". It was also at this time that I began to read other novels by Liu, from "Whale Song" to "Devil's Blocks" (this is also one of my favorite Liu's works), until I read "The Cannon of the Earth", and the next one was "Bring Her Eyes". I was shocked. It turns out that these two novels are companion pieces. Of course, after a few years, when I read this novel again, I found that this novel is different from Liu's previous style in that even if it does not describe those grand backgrounds and only has a few simple science fiction settings and a few foreshadowings, it does not prevent it from becoming an excellent novel. Why, I personally think it is because of the suspense set at the beginning, as well as the first-person description of the protagonist and other factors, which make the readers of this novel have a strong sense of involvement and curiosity. Until the final answer is revealed, their heads will explode. Even if I read it again already knowing the answer, I will still be attracted by the charming storyline, and once again impressed by Liu's imagination and writing style. Now I am a member of the school's science fiction society and have read many different types of science fiction. After many years, I took this opportunity to read Liu's short stories again, hoping to have a different experience.
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
I am very happy that this edition of Liu's short story collection is named after "Bring Her Eyes on". This novel can be regarded as my science fiction enlightenment reading. As a text for the sixth grade of elementary school, this novel brought great shock to me who was naive and ignorant at that time. Although I didn't understand what the teacher meant by science fiction, as a young person, I believed that there really was a magical pair of glasses in the world that could share vision, smell, and even touch, and that there really was a brave man who stayed in the center of the earth forever. I kept searching for information and news about Sunset 6 on the Internet. Unsurprisingly, I found nothing except the content in the text. But this didn't stop me from falling in love with science fiction. I remembered the essay "Me in Twenty Years" that I wrote when I was younger. In the essay, I had become a scientist and landed on Mars (hahaha). This should be regarded as my earliest science fiction creation. Later, in junior high school, I came into contact with science fiction novels such as "The Three-Body Problem" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". It was also at this time that I began to read other novels by Liu, from "Whale Song" to "Devil's Blocks" (this is also one of my favorite Liu's works), until I read "The Cannon of the Earth", and the next one was "Bring Her Eyes". I was shocked. It turns out that these two novels are companion pieces. Of course, after a few years, when I read this novel again, I found that this novel is different from Liu's previous style in that even if it does not describe those grand backgrounds and only has a few simple science fiction settings and a few foreshadowings, it does not prevent it from becoming an excellent novel. Why, I personally think it is because of the suspense set at the beginning, as well as the first-person description of the protagonist and other factors, which make the readers of this novel have a strong sense of involvement and curiosity. Until the final answer is revealed, their heads will explode. Even if I read it again already knowing the answer, I will still be attracted by the charming storyline, and once again impressed by Liu's imagination and writing style. Now I am a member of the school's science fiction society and have read many different types of science fiction. After many years, I took this opportunity to read Liu's short stories again, hoping to have a different experience.
