Liu Cixin is a Chinese science fiction writer, best known for his Remembrance of Earth’s Past series: The Three-Body Problem (serialized 2006, published as one volume 2008), The Dark Forest (2008), and Death’s End (2010). His novels and short stories are highly awarded, and Macmillan Publishers calls him “the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People’s Republic of China.”
Born in Beijing in 1963, Liu was raised first in Shanxi province by his parents, and then, when the region became a combat zone for the factional civil wars of the Cultural Revolution, in his ancestral home village in Henan Province. He graduated from the North China University of Water Conservancy...