Liu Cixin's 2000 novella about humanity building engines to move Earth itself out of the solar system to escape an expanding sun — the basis for the hugely successful Chinese film — notable for its collectivist approach to human survival.
Creates the definitive Chinese science fiction vision of collective survival — unlike Western SF where individuals save the world, The Wandering Earth imagines collective humanity building civilization-scale engineering to escape extinction.
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