15 of the award-winning stories of Cixin Liu, dubbed "China's Arthur C. Clarke" by the New Yorker, have been turned into graphic novels through an international cooperation involving 26 authors and illustrators from 14 different nations. The low-temperature artist was drawn to Earth by the Ice and Snow Arts Festival. The extraterrestrial visitor was captivated by the artistic beauty and technical mastery of the sculptures on show, and it yearned to cooperate and exhibit its own work. The low-temperature artist's civilization, however, perfected the manipulation of entire planets to make artworks, drawing on the oceans and ice caps and reducing their temperature to stunning effect. While people learned to fashion ice into magnificent ephemera.