Supernova Era - 2003 - Liú Cíxīn (刘慈欣)

Supernova Era, 超新星纪元, (2003)

An audio book from the author of the Three Body Problem.

In those days, Earth was a planet in space.
In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth.
On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end.

Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die.

And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running.

In this fascinating thought experiment Cixin imagines a world without adults. Like a global Lord of the Flies, that somehow makes the CPC look like a altruistic and corruption free force for humanity.

Absurd at times, always fascinating, and engaging, this work has sorely been missing from this TPB