

Turn them a bit and you can stop the earth rotating and maneuver it."į: "Crazy man, crazy cool. Liu sucks back another massive hit, before letting the smoke furl from his nostrils in dragon-like tendrils It’ll take decades, maybe, I dunno, 400 years to build them."į: "Wow. No one can yell 'she cannae take any more captain!' without engines." Pretty shitty spaceship if it can only go in circles. The water bubbles a long while until Liu stops inhaling, pauses, and slowly blows out a long column of smoke, slowly lifting the rocket bong above it as though it were taking off on a plume of exhaust "S.S Earth, going boldly to infinity and beyond!"į: "No engines. LC: "The biggest spaceship of all, with a crew of billions." Liu reaches for the glass object on the table, fastens his mouth on its top and raises a lighter to a protrusion on its side. Liu: "Have you… have you ever thought that the Earth is really just a giant spaceship? A great big spaceship, with life support, power, shields… carrying us all through space?"įriend: "Wow. They both have sleepy, glazed expressions. Liu Cixin and his Friend sit on the couch. In front of the couch is a glass coffee table with a bulbous, hollow glass object that resembles a rocketship sitting on it. Yanquan City, Shanxi Province, Peoples Republic of ChinaĪ plain brown couch sits opposite a bookcase full of engineering and SF books.
