![]() ![]() ![]() And that, unfortunately, turns out to be a bit appropriate, because the story itself never quite leaves the ground. So, anticipating – chapter-by-chapter – an eventual shift into orbit based on the cover art is a fruitless wait. But, in my eyes, the cover also shows what appear to be dozens of satellites circling Earth, which look for all the world like giant, orbiting skyscrapers and although it could certainly be argued that imagining these objects to be inhabited satellite-cities was a product of an over-active imagination on my part, the fact is that the story takes place entirely on Earth, with the exception of a cryptic reference in the Epilogue to a settlement on Mars – never a mention of a veritable cloud of fancy-looking orbiting structures. ![]() The cover art does admittedly include a bright explosion off in the distance beyond a picture of Earth, apparently representing the supernova of the title. I certainly found that to be the case for the hardcover edition of Cixin Liu’s science fiction novel, Supernova Era. Sometimes you truly can’t judge a book by its cover. Translated from the Chinese by Joel Martinsen (2019) ![]()
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