Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin is China's leading science fiction author and one of the most celebrated SF writers in the world. He won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Death's End (2017), the conclusion of his Three-Body trilogy, which also includes The Three-Body Problem (Hugo Award winner) and The Dark Forest. He is the first Asian author to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel. Born in 1963 in Beijing and raised in a mining community in Shanxi province, Liu worked for decades as a computer engineer while writing SF on the side. The Three-Body Problem, published in China in 2008 and translated into English by Ken Liu in 2014, became a global phenomenon, bringing Chinese science fiction to worldwide attention. The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy is celebrated for its vast cosmic scale, hard SF concepts, and dark philosophical vision. Liu continues to be the most prominent figure in contemporary Chinese science fiction.