Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin
Born	June 23, 1963 Henan, China
Occupation	Science fiction writer, engineer
Nationality	Chinese
Period	1999-present
Genre	Hard science fiction
Notable works	the Three Body trilogy

Liu Cixin (simplified Chinese: 刘慈欣; traditional Chinese: 劉慈欣; born 1963) is a best-selling and award-winning science fiction writer based in People's Republic of China. Liu is a nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award (China's most prestgious literary science fiction award) and a winner of the Nebula Award. Liu's work is considered hard science fiction.

Liu received technical training from North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power. He has worked as a computer engineer for a power plant located in a remote village in Shanxi province.

Liu's most famous work, The Three-Body Problem, was published in 2007. It was translated into English by Ken Liu and published by Tor Books in November 2014.

Bibliography

• The Whale's song (鲸歌，1999)
• Inferno (地火，2000)
• The Wandering Earth (流浪地球, 2000)
• The Rural Teacher (乡村教师, 2001)
• Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming (全频带阻塞干扰，2001)
• The Glory and the Dream (光荣与梦想，2003)
• The Era of Supernova (超新星纪元, 2003)
• Ball Lightning (球状闪电, 2004)
• Of Ants and Dinosaurs
• The Longest Fall
• The Three Body trilogy
  • Three Body (三体, 2007), published in English by Tor Books in 2014 as The Three-Body Problem
  • Dark Forest (黑暗森林, 2008)
  • Dead End (死神永生, 2010)

Awards

• Nine-time winner of Kehuan Shijie ["SF World"] Yinhe (Chinese Galaxy) Award: 1999-2006, 2010.
• World Chinese Science Fiction Association's Xingyun (Nebula) Award for best writer: 2010.

External links

• Liu Cixin's blog
• Entry in Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Liu Cixin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Ball Lightning Extract: Free English translation of the first three chapters Ball Lightning