About the book
Editor's Note
Reading the Three-body Problem, you are reading Liu’s stories. While reading Liu’s sci-fi essays, you are reading Liu’s thoughts.
You would not see a real and complete Liu Cixin until you read these essays before the Three-body Problem.
His comments and essays, with unique perspectives, full of interest and charm, condensing his multidimensional thinking on science fiction, the universe, science and life, are another angle of expression of the wisdom incorporated into his sci-fi masterpieces.
Why is Liu Cixin the peak of Chinese science fiction so far? This work serves as an answer.
Table of Contents
Science Fiction in Chaos
The Gone Creek: Chinese Science Fiction in 1980s
The Ideal Way: Science Fiction and Ideal Society
Helpless yet Beautiful Wrongs: Big Flaw in Science Fiction
Speech on Galaxy Awards Ceremony & BNU SF Fellowship in 2000
Interview with Multi-Dimensional Space Magazine
3D Han Song
Battle Royale and The Cold Equations
A Forgotten Masterpiece
Sail! Sail!
A Drop of Water from the Sea: Reflects on Traditional Literature Elements in Science Fiction
Interview about Ball Lightning
Resurrection of the Gods on the Border of Science Fiction: Lord of Light Book Review
Also Wish Liu Wenyang Happy Birthday
Books on My Way to Science Fiction
Why Human Worth Saving
Some Thoughts about Human’s Future
The Wandering Earth: Journey to Find a Way Home
The Death’s End, Finale of Three-Body Trilogy is Done
Back to Eden: Review of My Ten Years of Science Fiction Writing
Youth and Dream in Science Fiction
Rebuild Confidence in Science Fiction
Ray Bradbury
Science Fiction at Eve of Singularity
City, from Reality to Virtuality
Magnificent Cosmo Cloud Atlas
2013, Transformation Year of Chinese Science Fiction
Dark Forest Conjecture
Mayflies amongst the Stars
Beyond Narcissism
Build our Own Pyramid
Electronic Poet
SF Religion
Film at Tomorrow Night
Chinese Contemporary Science Fiction in My Eyes
A Duel between Science Fiction and Fantasy
We are Science Fiction Fans
The Memories of the First Generation of Science Fiction Fans: Written for the Publication of The Supernova Era
Reverse Expansion of Civilization
My Thoughts on American Contemporary Science Fiction through Hugo and Nebula Awards
The Science Fiction We Need
The World after Fifty Years
Happy Science Fiction
The Centennial West Wind: the Influence Foreign Science Fiction Has on Chinese Science Fiction
After Finishing The Dark Forest
Foreword to Annual Collection of Chinese Science Fiction
When Popular-science-featured Science Fiction Tastes Like Literary
30 Years Working on Wonders
Two Issues about Technological Singularity
Pre-Historic Era of the AI Race
One and One Hundred Thousand Earths
Wandering in America on Doomsday
A Recommended Reading List of Science Fiction
Embracing the Starship Civilization
Letter to My Daughter
After Walking for Three Billion Years, Why Are We Here?
Precious Doomsday Experience
Poetic Science Fiction
Essays about Science Fiction Writing
About the Author
Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), also known as Cixin Liu, Da Liu, is a science fiction writer and former senior engineer from Yangquan, Shanxi. He is known for his grand narratives and extraordinarily imaginative writing style. He is the most internationally influential science fiction writer in the history of the People’s Republic of China, and his works have been translated into more than 25 different languages, including English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. As the first Asian author to win the Hugo Award, and the only Chinese author ever to be nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, he has been hailed as China’s preeminent science fiction writer. In November 2018, Liu was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service of Society.
