An international collaboration involving 26 writers and illustrators from 14 different countries have transformed 15 of Cixin Liu's â 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke' (New Yorker) â award-winning stories into graphic novels.
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It was the Ice and Snow Arts Festival that lured the low-temperature artist to Earth. Drawn by the beauty and technical skill of the sculptures displayed, the extraterrestrial visitor longed to collaborate and share its own art.
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But while humans learnt to craft ice into exquisite ephemera, the low-temperature artist's civilisation mastered the manipulation of whole worlds to create artworks â drawing on the seas and ice caps, and cooling their temperature to beautiful effect.
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Faced with the inevitable devastation and heat death of their planet, humankind must use their final breaths to fight for existence. But the artist will only speak to one human: Yan Dong, the ice sculptor whose beautiful work first drew its eye.