Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin
Born	(1963-06-23) 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 the People's Republic of China. Liu is a nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award (China's most prestigious 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, and won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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)
  • Death's 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.
• 2015 Hugo Award in Best Novel, for English language version of The Three Body Problem

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