About the book
In the future, humanity begins to develop Antarctica. To establish fast travel to the South Pole, humanity undertakes an enormous engineering project: constructing a tunnel that runs through the entire Earth. But the tunnel soon suffers a major catastrophe and causes an economic crash. As the climate worsens, manufacturing shifts to outer space to remodel the tunnel, transforming it into a cannon that can launch rockets, allowing humanity’s large-scale expansion into outer space.
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About the Author
Wu Qingsong, born 1980 in Chengdu, China.
When Wu Qingsong was just three or four years old, he used chalk to fill the stairwells of his own apartment building with drawings of ‘little guys.’ In high school physics class, he would only focus on trying to draw comics, getting caught three times doing this by the teacher, who later gave him the advice to go Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, to the department of printmaking. After graduation, he worked for a newspaper as arts editor and visual supervisor, but he never gave up his dream to create comics.
Early in 2010, he was part of the team that drew the graphic fiction collection Jade Gate. Afterwards, the French publisher Fei invited him to draw the graphic novel Shixiu: Queen of the Pirates. He made four trips to France, appearing at comics festivals in Saint-Malo, Port-de-Bouc, Bourges, and Dunkirk. He also completed drawing-autographs for many of his readers in continental Europe.
In early 2018, he began work on Mountains and Seas Slaying. In October the same year, this work won him the Golden Dragon Award for Chinese comics, as well as the first Qingwu award for comics.
His style is realist, with avid use of Chinese brushwork. Wu Qingsong especially likes history, science fiction and fantasy stories.
