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Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (Chinese: 刘慈欣; pinyin: Liú Cíxīn, pronounced [ljǒʊ tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕín]; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer. In English translations of his works, his name is given as Cixin Liu. He is sometimes called "Da Liu" ("Big Liu") by his fellow science fiction writers in China.
He is a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award, and has also received the 2015 Hugo Award for his novel The Three-Body Problem, as well as the 2017 Locus Award for Death's End. He is also a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award. He is a member of the China Science Writers Association and the vice president of the Shanxi Writers Association.
Liu was born on 23 June 1963 in Beijing. He grew up in Yangquan, Shanxi, where his parents had been sent to work in the mines. Due to the violence of the Cultural Revolution he was sent to live in his ancestral home in Luoshan County, Henan. Liu graduated from the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in 1988. He then worked as a computer engineer at a power plant in Shanxi province. While working as an engineer, he finished his first two long form novels, China 2185 and Supernova-Era.
In 2021, Liu announced that he would head SenseTime's Science Fiction Research Planetary Centre.
Liu programmed "Electronic Poet" (电子诗人), which according to academic Jessica Imbach is probably China's first poetry generator. It can be found online. It appears to be a language model, capable of generating works in the style of 1980s Misty poems.
Liu's works are often considered hard science fiction. His narratives incorporate Stephen Hawking's theories, as astrophysics concepts including wormholes, the curvature of the universe, the expanding universe, and black holes.
Liu was labeled the first cyberpunk Chinese author after his novel China 2185 was released in 1989. This novel imagines the digital recreation a digital clone the brains of Mao Zedong and five other men, and the consequences that follow once the digital beings enter China's general network.
Liu's most famous work, The Three-Body Problem, was first published in 2006. It is the first book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, and it chronicles the events that unfold after Ye Wenjie intercepts an intergalactic signal and encourages an alien species known as the Trisolarans to visit. American author Ken Liu's 2014 translation (published by Tor Books) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the book sold 1,200,000 copies in China before it won. Liu Cixin thus became the first author from Asia to win Best Novel. The German translation (which included some portions of the original text not included in the English translation) followed in 2016. Ken Liu also translated the third volume of The Three-Body Problem series, Death's End, in 2016. Death's End was a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist and won a 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (Chinese: 刘慈欣; pinyin: Liú Cíxīn, pronounced [ljǒʊ tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕín]; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer. In English translations of his works, his name is given as Cixin Liu. He is sometimes called "Da Liu" ("Big Liu") by his fellow science fiction writers in China.
He is a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award, and has also received the 2015 Hugo Award for his novel The Three-Body Problem, as well as the 2017 Locus Award for Death's End. He is also a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award. He is a member of the China Science Writers Association and the vice president of the Shanxi Writers Association.
Liu was born on 23 June 1963 in Beijing. He grew up in Yangquan, Shanxi, where his parents had been sent to work in the mines. Due to the violence of the Cultural Revolution he was sent to live in his ancestral home in Luoshan County, Henan. Liu graduated from the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in 1988. He then worked as a computer engineer at a power plant in Shanxi province. While working as an engineer, he finished his first two long form novels, China 2185 and Supernova-Era.
In 2021, Liu announced that he would head SenseTime's Science Fiction Research Planetary Centre.
Liu programmed "Electronic Poet" (电子诗人), which according to academic Jessica Imbach is probably China's first poetry generator. It can be found online. It appears to be a language model, capable of generating works in the style of 1980s Misty poems.
Liu's works are often considered hard science fiction. His narratives incorporate Stephen Hawking's theories, as astrophysics concepts including wormholes, the curvature of the universe, the expanding universe, and black holes.
Liu was labeled the first cyberpunk Chinese author after his novel China 2185 was released in 1989. This novel imagines the digital recreation a digital clone the brains of Mao Zedong and five other men, and the consequences that follow once the digital beings enter China's general network.
Liu's most famous work, The Three-Body Problem, was first published in 2006. It is the first book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, and it chronicles the events that unfold after Ye Wenjie intercepts an intergalactic signal and encourages an alien species known as the Trisolarans to visit. American author Ken Liu's 2014 translation (published by Tor Books) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the book sold 1,200,000 copies in China before it won. Liu Cixin thus became the first author from Asia to win Best Novel. The German translation (which included some portions of the original text not included in the English translation) followed in 2016. Ken Liu also translated the third volume of The Three-Body Problem series, Death's End, in 2016. Death's End was a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist and won a 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.