Cixin Liu #4

Plot

Cover by Nicolas Vallet. Translated by Nicholas Blackburn Smith.

Ever since she was a child, Yuanyuan always dreamed of blowing big bubbles. But her father worries about her fascination; he wants Yuanyuan to be as responsible and devoted to a calling as her mother was. As an adult, Yuanyuan creates a multimillion-dollar business out of the technology she developed for her doctoral thesis. But she still dreams of blowing the biggest bubble she can.

When his daughter uses her high-tech methods to blow a bubble big enough to envelop a city, Yuanyuan's father thinks back to the dreams he and Yuanyuan's mother chased when they were young. Will her father's dreams com back to life?