The Wandering Earth

The sun is dying. Astrophysicists have discovered that a helium flash will soon consume the inner solar system, and to survive, humanity abandons its oldest certainty: that the Earth stays still.

Over generations, the nations of the world unite to build ten thousand towering "Earth Engines" that halt the planet's rotation and drive it out of orbit — beginning a 2,500-year voyage to a new star.

Narrated by a man born in the underground cities beneath a frozen, storm-lashed surface, who has never seen the sun, Liu Cixin's award-winning novella The Wandering Earth is a vast, melancholy vision of survival, sacrifice, and the sheer scale of what it would take to move a world.