“The Thinkers,” by Liu Cixin

If you enjoyed The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin, the novel that won the 2015 Hugo award, you might enjoy this short story.

It was translated by Joel Martinsen at Paper Republic, a website dedicated to Chinese literature in translation. Martinsen has also translated The Dark Forest, the sequel to The Three Body Problem.

This is a story about the links between thinkers, and about the sun and stars:

https://paper-republic.org/pubs/read/the-thinkers/

— Sue Burke