Head of Zeus

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Cixin Liu's Sea of Dreams: A Graphic Novel

by Cixin Liu, illustrated by JOK

An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's – 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) – award-winning stories into graphic novels.

It was the Ice and Snow Arts Festival that lured the low-temperature artist to Earth. Drawn by the beauty and technical skill of the sculptures displayed, the extraterrestrial visitor longed to collaborate and share its own art.

But while humans learnt to craft ice into exquisite ephemera, the low-temperature artist's civilisation mastered the manipulation of whole worlds to create artworks – drawing on the seas and ice caps, and cooling their temperature to beautiful effect.

Faced with the inevitable devastation and heat death of their planet, humankind must use their final breaths to fight for existence. But the artist will only speak to one human: Yan Dong, the ice sculptor whose beautiful work first drew its eye.

Praise for Cixin Liu:

'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' 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

Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book * Graphic Novels

05 Aug 2021 * 96pp * £9.99 * 9781800249981

REVIEWS

'A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology'

George RR Martin

'Wildly imaginative, really interesting ... The scope of it was immense'

Barack Obama

'A milestone in Chinese science fiction'

New York Times

'A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters ... Exhilarating, mind-stretching'

TLS

'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke'

The New Yorker

Author

Cixin Liu

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.

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Illustrator

JOK

JOK was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has been working as a writer and artist since 1993. His work has been published in USA, England, Italy, France, Spain, Cyprus, Canada, China, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. He has run a studio along with his comrades-in-arms since 2001, splitting his time amongst several endeavours, including work-for-hire projects, creator-owned books, children's illustration, and colour work, as well as attending conventions all over the world, doing some writing, and never missing his weekly football game with friends and colleagues.

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