“Book Descriptions: He has an opportunity to travel and so he takes a pair of eyes along. In the future, those who cannot go on their own journeys can ask travelers to take electronic eyes along for them, offering another a virtual window to their experiences. Whose eyes is he carrying? And why is she insistent to the point of tears that he show her a sunrise?
China Galaxy Science Fiction Award of Year 1999
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Liu Cixin's writing will remind SF fans of the genre's golden age, with its positive focus on scientific development, combined with a consistently constructive vision of China's future role as a global superpower. It's characteristic of an SF genre which has been embraced by Chinese culture because it is seen as representing the values of technological innovation and creativity so highly prized in a country developing more quickly than any other in the world today. – Damien Walter, The Guardian
A science fiction tale with a Chinese touch. The Wandering Earth is filled with imaginative tech and a moving world, literally. – Indiebookoftheday.com” DRIVE