[pbhjpbhj]

>build a planet-sized spacecraft //

We have one of those already, just need to work on the propulsion and life-support systems.

[twic]

And we're back to the stories of Liu Cixin again:

http://www.pornokitsch.com/2012/07/underground-reading-the-w...

[anigbrowl]

Hmm, that sounds very similar to this 2006 sci-fi novel: http://www.amazon.com/Cusp-Robert-A-Metzger/dp/0441013015

It reads like William Gibson reimagined by Michael Bay but I ended being entertained despite myself.

[twic]

Oh wow, yes, definitely some overlap there! Judging purely from the blurb on Amazon, i'd say that the stories at least have rather different styles - Clarke-Baxter-style grand-scale hard SF vs Walter Jon Williams-style cyberpunk-tinged space opera.