Liu Cixin
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Liu Cixin ， an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award for science-fiction writing and an awardee of the Xingyun (nebula) Awards, is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Formally, he works as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan
, Shanxi.
Liu creates a new classical theme in Chinese Science Fiction writing
, and his writing is mainly focused on the role of China in a future world.
: the distance prevents civilizations from trusting each other, therefore all civilizations would assume others to be dangerous. Therefore all civilizations mature enough to arrive to this conclusion would hide themselves and attack those who expose their position.
An English translation of the first three chapters of Liu's book, Ball Lightning, is available online.
Yangquan
Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in the Shanxi province of China. Situated to the west side of Taihang Mountain, Yangquan occupies a total area of 4,470 square kilometers and is home to a population of about 1.3 million . Yangquan is rich in mineral resources and is famous for its smokeless coal...
, Shanxi.
Liu creates a new classical theme in Chinese Science Fiction writing
Science fiction in China
In China, science fiction has had more than a century of history.-Early translations:The history of science fiction in China began with the keen interest in the West that existed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries...
, and his writing is mainly focused on the role of China in a future world.
Writings
- The Era of Supernova (《超新星纪元》, 1999）
- The Rural Teacher (《乡村教师》, 2001)
- Ball Lightning (《球状闪电》, 2004)
- The Three Body Trilogy
- Three Body (《三体》, 2007)
- Dark ForestThree Body II: Dark ForestThree Body II: Dark Forest is the second part of the Three Body trilogy, published in 2008.- Synopsis :The world now entered the Crisis Era. Save for a few significant technological developments such as human hibernation, no further progress could be expected from basic sciences like fundamental...
(《黑暗森林》, 2008) - Dead End (《死神永生》, 2010)
Three Body trilogy
In his Three Body trilogy, Liu features Chinese people's and the human race's centuries-long contacts and wars with an alien civilization. In this series Liu argues that civilizations in the galaxy follows the Law of the JungleThe Law of the Jungle
"The Law of the Jungle" is an expression that means "every man for himself", "anything goes", "might makes right", "survival of the strongest", "survival of the fittest", "kill or be killed", "dog eat dog" and "eat or be eaten".- The Jungle Book :...
: the distance prevents civilizations from trusting each other, therefore all civilizations would assume others to be dangerous. Therefore all civilizations mature enough to arrive to this conclusion would hide themselves and attack those who expose their position.
An English translation of the first three chapters of Liu's book, Ball Lightning, is available online.
Awards
- Galaxy Award for science-fiction writing
- Xingyun (nebula) Awards