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(English title: To Hold Up the Sky ) is a comprehensive collection of 11 short stories by Cixin Liu, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem . These stories, written between 1999 and 2017, explore the intersection of monumental scientific concepts and the small, intimate lives of individuals. Core Themes and Key Stories
: Unlike many "hard" sci-fi works, Liu explores art as a universal force. In "Sea of Dreams" , a cosmic being uses Earth's oceans to create a massive ice sculpture, while "Cloud of Poems" features a technological god attempting to surpass human poetry through pure computing power.
: A recurring theme is how individual human actions can have galactic consequences. This is best exemplified in "The Village Teacher" , where a dying teacher in an impoverished rural village inadvertently saves Earth from an interstellar war by teaching his students Newton's Laws.