Cixin Liu
Author of The Three-Body Problem
About the Author
Cixin Liu is the author of The Three Body Problem, which won Best Novel at the Hugo Awards 2015. (Bowker Author Biography)
Series
Works by Cixin Liu
Sun of China {story} — Author — 12 copies
The Wandering Earth, Part 2 of 2 — Author — 5 copies
The Wages of Humanity {story} — Author — 4 copies
For the Benefit of Mankind 2 copies
Cannonball 2 copies
Sea Of Dreams 2 copies
The Poetry Cloud {short story} — Author — 2 copies
Moonlight 1 copy
drei Sonnen, Die : Roman 1 copy
三体 1 copy
Sostener el cielo 1 copy
Sostener el Cielo 1 copy
Tam thể 1 copy
(54) 三体III：死神永生 1 copy
Ode to Joy {short story} 1 copy
2018-04-01 {short story} 1 copy
The Circle {short story} — Author — 1 copy
2016 1 copy
Contraction {short story} 1 copy
Three Body Mystery 1 copy
Associated Works
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2016) — Contributor — 592 copies, 24 reviews
The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection (2016) — Contributor — 449 copies, 7 reviews
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (2019) — Contributor — 388 copies, 11 reviews
Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction (2016) — Contributor — 98 copies, 6 reviews
The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction (2018) — Contributor — 45 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 42, No. 1 & 2 [January/February 2018] (2018) — Contributor — 11 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 113 • October 2019 (2019) — Contributor, some editions — 7 copies, 1 review
Terra Nova vol. 3: Antología de ciencia ficción contemporánea (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies, 1 review
SFが読みたい! 2020年版 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Cixin Liu
- Legal name
- 劉慈欣
- Other names
- 刘慈欣
- Birthdate
- 1963-06-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- China
- Country (for map)
- China
- Birthplace
- Henan, China
- Places of residence
- Beijing, China
Shanxi, China
Luoshan County, Henan Province, China - Education
- North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
- Occupations
- science fiction writer
power plant computer engineer - Organizations
- Beijing Guomi Digital Technology
- Short biography
- Liu Cixin, born in June 1963, is a representative of the new generation of Chinese science fiction authors and recognized as a leading voice in Chinese science fiction. He was awarded the China Galaxy Science Fiction Award for eight consecutive years, from 1999 to 2006 and again in 2010. His representative work The Three-body Problem is the BEST STORY of 2015 Hugo Awards, the 3rd of 2015 Campbell Award finalists, and nominee of 2015 Nebulas Award.
His works have received wide acclaim on account of their powerful atmosphere and brilliant imagination. Liu Cixin's stories successfully combine the exceedingly ephemeral with hard reality, all the while focussing on revealing the essence and aesthetics of science. He has endeavoured to create a distinctly Chinese style of science fiction. Liu Cixin is a member of the China Writers' Association and the Shanxi Writers' Association.
Members
Discussions
Jeff's 2019 Reads in The Green Dragon (April 2021)
Reviews
My first Sci-fi book which is not a space opera. 5 Stars
I really wanted to read a book which explores ideas rather than the plot or action scenes. Don't think that i am against plot and actions but i am a guy who likes to think about these ideas when i am trying to sleep or when i am alone (also, physics being my favourite subject). This book gave me a lot to think about.
The ideas this book explored is brilliant. I am not going into the specifics because of spoilers but anyone who needs a good sci-fi that deals with huge ideas and better executing those ideas should read this book.
Other than ideas, i think the character work was better too in this book. The main characters was explored very deeply and we can understand their reasons, motivations and their actions. Whether those actions are for good or bad is another issue.
When the book explored more on these ideas and characters, this lacked on actions and plot development but since i got want i wanted with this book, i'm neglecting that issue here.… (more)
I really wanted to read a book which explores ideas rather than the plot or action scenes. Don't think that i am against plot and actions but i am a guy who likes to think about these ideas when i am trying to sleep or when i am alone (also, physics being my favourite subject). This book gave me a lot to think about.
The ideas this book explored is brilliant. I am not going into the specifics because of spoilers but anyone who needs a good sci-fi that deals with huge ideas and better executing those ideas should read this book.
Other than ideas, i think the character work was better too in this book. The main characters was explored very deeply and we can understand their reasons, motivations and their actions. Whether those actions are for good or bad is another issue.
When the book explored more on these ideas and characters, this lacked on actions and plot development but since i got want i wanted with this book, i'm neglecting that issue here.… (more)
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2023 (1)
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Statistics
- Works
- 77
- Also by
- 16
- Members
- 20,627
- Popularity
- #1,047
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 794
- ISBNs
- 410
- Languages
- 22
- Favorited
- 14
I found the footnotes jarring but necessary. I never could connect with the characters.
2016 Did an audible reading. Not to bad.