About the Book: The Supernova Era
Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age NPR
Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel WIRED Eight years
ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died.
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.
And so the countdown begins.
Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge