Liu's most famous work "The Three-Body Problem" was published in China in 2007 and eight years later, the novel's English translation won the Hugo Award for best novel, making Liu the first Asian to receive the prize. A 2015 New Yorker profile called his stories "fables about human prog...
Cixin Liu began his massively ambitious trilogy with this dazzling work of SF... Hard to sum up in a few short lines, but one you read it you'll be doing your best to tell everyone else to follow suit *SciFi Now* Show more
And then the countdown starts. Written by Cixin Liu and translated into English by Ken Liu,The Three-Body Problemis – and you have to forgive me the cliché – a tour-de-force. The story goes back and forth in time, following two main characters and bridging all the aforementioned dispa...
'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED . Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within...
Liu’s father’s family had been torn apart by the Chinese Civil War. Although his paternal grandparents remained ideologically neutral, Liu’s father joined the Communists while one of his uncles fought on the side of the Nationalists. A profile in The New Yorker describes how Liu’s uncle...