Eventually pan-global civil war erupts even as space beyond the solar system beckons. This story turns disturbing as we see what happens when humans deal with the massive levels of dread infecting them as they journey out of orbit and into space forever.
One of Liu’s pet themes is the idea that not just space exploration, but ‘space migration,’ should be a major concern to all of humanity today, because the planet could well be left uninhabitable by cataclysmic environmental change, either manmade or from nature.īut the path outward from the solar system is fraught with many trials, and technological challenges are just the beginning. Here, the legendary short story is brought to vivid life as a graphic novel, a form to which it adapts well.ĭespite being much shorter than any of his novels, “The Wandering Earth” still achieves the full scope of an epic quest, on perhaps the grandest scale ever envisioned: the whole planet Earth is leaving its home and facing trials, all to get to the next nearest star down the road. “The Wandering Earth” serves as a bridge between the short stories of Liu Cixin, with their technological cores and quick-sketched characters, and the same author’s signature novel series, the Three-Body Problem, with its epic scale, a vast drama in which the fate of planet Earth hangs in the balance.
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