Sign-In
Cart
Memory of the Earth
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $32.00
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798240825620
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is the eighth collection in Hong Zeng's series of short stories. It is poetic, philosophical, and tinged with magical realism. All stories derive their core ideas and central images from the author's own creative poetry. This series can be categorized in the genre of science fiction. Eyes on the Birch Trees is a science fiction novel that blends speculative fiction, mystery, and existential inquiry. Through a restrained, atmospheric narrative, it constructs a silent city woven from memory, information, and consciousness, unraveling layer upon layer of mystery while exploring the nature of identity, memory, and the self.
In Protocol of the Water of Lethe, the city is a visualization of Lin Zhiyao's mind. Streets represent neural pathways, buildings store memories, and structural collapse reflects psychological instability. As her understanding grows, the city stabilizes, mirroring emotional integration. The story suggests that memory is not a burden to erase but a bond that shapes identity, love, and responsibility.Memories of the Earth explores how memory outlives individuals and civilizations, suggesting that while humans forget and disappear, the Earth quietly absorbs every life, place, and moment into its own endless memory.The motifs of Dream of Butterfly explore the hidden connections between reality, perception, and existence. Recurring images such as mirrors, leaf veins, water reflections, butterflies, and city networks represent the same underlying structure appearing in different forms. The story questions the role of the observer, showing that while humans believe they are discovering reality, they may also be shaped and observed by it. It explores themes of identity, time, memory, and the uncertainty between illusion and truth.The motif of Overview Effect is the transformation of human perception when one experiences the world from a larger, more complete perspective. Through Lin Xu's journey, the story explores how seeing the interconnectedness of all events, people, and systems challenges ordinary ideas of meaning, identity, and certainty. High-Dimensional Vision of Trees explores the limitation of human perception and the possibility of seeing reality beyond ordinary dimensions. Through ants, snails, trees, and stars, the story explores the idea that humans may perceive only a small slice of a larger structure, mistaking movement for change and sequence for time itself.Hong Zeng holds two PhDs in literature and served as a professor of literature at Carleton College and Hamline University in the United States for thirteen years. She is the author of five books of literary criticism published in America, dozens of critical essays, and a bilingual poetry collection in English and Chinese.
Also from
Zeng, Hong
Also in
Fiction Anthologies
Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters
Druckman, Charlotte
Paperback
$28.50
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Pirsig, Robert M.
Pirsig, Wendy K.
Hardcover
$25.64
James Weldon Johnson: Writings (Loa #145): The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / Essays and Editorials / Selected Poems
Johnson, James Weldon
Hardcover
$60.00
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Shelley, Mary
Paperback
$9.45
Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt
McCourt, Frank
McCourt, Malachy
Hardcover
$27.00
Sherlock: Short Story Anthology: Ten New Cases. Ten Master Storytellers. One Immortal Detective.
The Conan Doyle Estate
Hardcover
$27.55
异乡故人（壹嘉-人文）
刘宗坤
Paperback
$24.99
Here in New England: Unforgettable Stories of People, Places, and Memories That Connect Us All.
Allen, Mel
Paperback
$19.00
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Paperback
$23.75
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews
Poe, Edgar Allan
Hardcover
$27.00
Learn Russian with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Russian to English
Van Den End, Kees
Hyplern, Bermuda Word
Gettys, Serafima
Paperback
$17.99
Obvious Adams -- The Story of a Successful Businessman: New Business Edition
Updegraff, Robert R.
Paperback
$12.49
The World of Jane Austen: A Conversation Puzzle: 500-Piece Puzzle: Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults
Oakley, Jacqui
Other
$22.00
Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year: A Charming Collection of Wit & Wisdom
Richardson, Tara
Hardcover
$16.14
Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free Online Audio Recording)
Sato, Anna
Sato, Eriko
Paperback
$18.99