Reviews

To Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu

nanimao's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

The crucial role of science and teachers explored in short stories that ask profound questions.

mtyler12's review

5.0

Such an interesting and creative set of short stories, I enjoyed them all, and a couple were sublime. If you ask me, Cixin Liu is the best science fiction author working today

ericmppaq's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

carlitabeth's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

estanceveyrac's review against another edition

5.0

Ah! Delightful!
Only half the stories I had not read elsewhere before, but I'm glad I got my hand on this.
Ode to Joy, a happy surprise. It was weird for me a bit, because it's the hymn for the EU, so I wouldn't think anyone would see it as an international/universal rallying point, but why not I guess, it's as good as anything else. Really wonderful to read, especially now.

zone_a3's review

informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

ksfinnerty's review

inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

mathematicalcoffee's review

2.0

Didn't really enjoy. Nothing super interesting and very flat characters.

strategineer's review

2.0

To Hold Up the Sky is a collection of short stories from Liu Cixin who's mostly known for his Three Body Problem trilogy.

This collection is a mixed bag. The stories range from very bad, to middling to great. Two (out of eleven) stories really spoke to me and the rest were mostly meh.

jonahbf's review

2.0

There are a few diamonds in the rough, but most of these stories are thoroughly mediocre and uninspired. You can tell that Liu used all of his best stories in The Wandering Earth: this collection contains those that didn't make the cut