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Death's End

by Cixin Liu

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Death's End by Cixin Liu appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, tales from around the world, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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