[1] The protagonist returns to the Solar System after a long but unsuccessful interstellar mission in search of a new home planet for humanity.
In 2012, China Film Group bought the rights to three of Liu Cixin's best-known science fiction stories, The Wandering Earth, Supernova Era and The Micro-Age.
Gwo replied that he was particularly interested in making science fiction films, but Supernova Era and The Micro-Age were technically more demanding and set in a more distant time.
[4] Jaymee Goh wrote on Strange Horizons, that the "expository paragraphs [....] are particularly tedious in first contact stories such as 'Mountain,' 'Devourer,' and 'The Micro Era,' where there is barely any human drama and the protagonists are flat.
"[5] Gareth D Jones wrote on SF Crowsnest, to wonder "if it’s a Chinese habit or whether it is Cixin Liu’s own penchant for giving every period of history a defining name as an Era.