
Cixin Liu's The Village Teacher: A Graphic Novel
By: Cixin Liu, Zhang Xiaoyu (Illustrator)
Paperback | 1 October 2021
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In the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition, one man has dedicated his life to igniting a passion for maths and science in the hearts of the peasant children around him. Now his life is coming to its end, he draws his students around him so he can impart knowledge on them to his final breath.
All the while, in a far corner of outer space, fifty thousand light-years away, an interstellar war that has waged for thousands of years is coming to an end. The victor plans to perform the full-scale extermination of any low-intelligence lifeforms that remain in what is now his solar system.
In order to gauge the intelligence of a planet, the victor devises a test – posed to a group of lifeforms selected at random by a computer – of science and mathematics. On a green-and-blue planet nestled in a spiral arm of the Milky Way, the computer's selection falls to a group of children, in the depths of mountains shrouded with ignorance and superstition...
Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel
About the Author
Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem - the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.
Industry Reviews
Wired
'Immense'
Barack Obama
'Unique'
George R.R. Martin
'SF in the grand style'
Guardian
'Mind-altering and immersive'
Daily Mail
'A milestone in Chinese science-fiction'
New York Times
'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke'
New Yorker
ISBN: 9781800249998
ISBN-10: 1800249993
Series: The Worlds of Cixin Liu
Published: 1st October 2021
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 110
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: HEALTHKIT/ZENITH EDUCATIONAL S
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 1.4 x 18.1 x 25.3
Weight (kg): 0.35
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