Description: A Hugo-Award winning tour de force near-future adventure with the scope of Dune and commercial action of Independence Day from China's most beloved science fiction writer
Brief description: CIXIN LIU is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award, an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award. Prior to becoming a writer, he worked as an engineer in a power plant. His novels include The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End.
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Praise for the Three-Body Problem series:
"Wildly imaginative."--President Barack Obama "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times "Absolutely mind-unfolding. . . . a science-fiction epic of the most profound kind."--NPR "A breakthrough book . . . a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology."--George R. R. Martin "Liu Cixin's writing evokes the thrill of exploration and the beauty of scale. . . . Extraordinary."--The New Yorker "[Liu turns] technically complex and existentially dreadful ideas into books that are impossible to put down."--GQ "A fascinating novel of ideas."-TIME "The best kind of science fiction, familiar but strange all at the same time."--Kim Stanley Robinson "Remarkable, revelatory, and not to be missed."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Fans of hard SF will revel in this intricate and imaginative novel."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "War of the Worlds for the 21st century."--Wall Street Journal "Liu's picture of humanity's place in the cosmos is among the biggest, boldest and most disturbing we've seen."--Los Angeles Times "Provocative."--Slate "A gripping and haunting sci-fi mystery."--Cosmopolitan "A must-read in any language."--Booklist