Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin is a Chinese science fiction author whose Three-Body Problem trilogy became the first Asian science fiction work to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel. His novels present a vast, dark, and uncompromising vision of the universe in which civilizations destroy one another to survive. He is the most celebrated science fiction author in China and one of the most important in the world.
Works
- The Three-Body ProblemHard SF first contact story where alien species halts human space exploration
- The Dark ForestGame theory SF exploring mutually assured destruction in cosmological scale conflict
- Death's EndEpic trilogy conclusion depicting humanity's final survival against overwhelming cosmic forces
- Ball LightningStandalone hard SF exploring physics of lightning and advanced technology implications
- The Wandering EarthClimate SF about Earth forced into interstellar journey as planetary propulsion
- Wandering EarthAlternate title for Liu Cixin story about planetary engineering and escape
- The Supernova EraHard SF depicting children managing civilization after adult catastrophic event