A collection of award-winning hard science fiction short stories. From the author of The Three-Body Problem , a collection of award-winning short stories – a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Stories included are: 1. The Village Teacher. 2. The Time Migration. 3. 2018-04-01. 4. Fire in the Earth. 5. Contraction. 6. Mirror. 7. Ode to Joy. 8. Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming. 9. Sea of Dreams. 10. Cloud of Poems. 11. The Thinker.