the wandering earth cixin liu graphic novels 2 liu cixin

Because of this, the engine jets needed to be set at a very precise angle, causing the massive beams to slant across the sky. It was the tangential thrust component generated by the engines that halted the Earth’s rotation. Actually, that description was not totally accurate.

And you, you are just a microbe on the palace’s floor. Inside the palace, countless massive columns rise up to the vaulted ceiling, each one blazing with the blue-white light of a fluorescent tube. Imagine an enormous palace, as big as the Parthenon on the Acropolis. In total, there were twelve thousand engines scattered across the Eurasian and North American plains.įrom where I lived, I could see the bright plasma beams of hundreds of engines.

They had been installed all across Asia and North America – only the solid tectonic plate structure of these two continents could withstand the enormous thrust they exerted. The Earth Engines brightly illuminated the whole Northern hemisphere. During that endless sunset, I was born.ĭusk did not mean darkness. The Sun lay just below the horizon, its glow filling half the sky. The Eastern hemisphere was shrouded in perpetual dusk for a long time, maybe a decade or so. Of course, afterward there was no more ‘day’ or ‘night’. It took three days and three nights to finally set. The Sun sank very slowly, as if stuck on the horizon. My mother told me about the time our family watched the last sunset. It had taken forty-two years to halt the Earth’s rotation, three years longer than the Coalition had planned. I was born as the Braking Era ended, just as the Earth stopped turning. I have never seen spring, fall or winter.

The wandering earth cixin liu graphic novels 2 liu cixin