Description:<p>'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' <i>WIRED</i>. </p> <p>Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. </p> <p>Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged. </p> <p>And so the countdown begins. </p> <p>Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running. </p> <p>But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world. And though they imagine a better, brighter future, they may not be able to escape humanity's dark instincts... </p> <p><b>'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' <i>THE NEW YORKER</i>. </p> <p>'Wildly imaginative, really interesting ... The scope of it was immense' BARACK OBAMA. </b></p>