The author, Liu Cixin, was born in Beijing in June 1963. The translation became the first Asian novel ever to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. The English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014. By 2015, a Chinese film adaptation of the same name was in production. In 2006 it received the Yinhe Award for Chinese science fiction, and in 2012 was described as one of the genre's most successful novels of the previous two decades. The Three-Body Problem was originally serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006 and published as a standalone book in 2008. The title refers to the three-body problem in orbital mechanics. The series portrays a fictional past, present and future where, in the first book, Earth encounters an alien civilization in a nearby star system that consists of three sun-like stars orbiting each other in an unstable system. The trilogy's second and third novels are The Dark Forest and Death's End, respectively. It is the first novel of the Remembrance of Earth's Past ( Chinese: 地球往事) trilogy, but the whole series is often referred to as Three-Body. 'Three-Body') is a science fiction novel written by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The Three-Body Problem ( Chinese: 三体 lit. He is also the first Asian writer to win the prestigious Hugo award, a feat he achieved in 2015 when the English translation of The Three-Body Problem was published.Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Best Foreign Work (2017) Today, he is the most famous science fiction writer in China. After coming to prominence with his short story The Wandering Earth, Liu turned his attention to longer projects, including the serialized story that would later become The Three-Body Problem. He started writing science fiction stories in high school, a practice he continued through college and his first job as a computer engineer at a power plant. Once in Henan, Liu developed interests in space travel and weapons technology, crafting homemade gunpowder and reading up on complex astronomical theory. In search of a more peaceful existence for their child, Liu’s parents sent him to live with his grandparents in Henan province. The family relocated to the city of Yangquan, where Liu lived in fear of the near-constant violence outside his door.

As a toddler, Liu’s father-who had fought on the communist side in the Chinese Civil War-was fired from his job for the mere fact that his brother was anti-communist. The trauma of the Cultural Revolution, which serves as a backdrop for the events of The Three-Body Problem, was something Cixin Liu experienced firsthand.

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin