Cixin Liu's The Wandering Earth: A Graphic Novel

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The sun is dying. Its expanding diameter will consume Earth within centuries. Humanity's only option: install massive engines on one hemisphere and propel the entire planet out of its orbit, across four light-years of open space, to Proxima Centauri. The journey will take 2,500 years and require generations of sacrifice from people who will never see the destination. Cixin Liu's story — adapted here into a graphic novel — is one of his most iconic premises: planetary-scale engineering as an expression of human desperation and collective will. The Wandering Earth became a blockbuster Chinese film, but the original story is starker and more philosophically rigorous. A story about the moment humanity decides that surviving means abandoning everything — including the sky you were born under.