“I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“The Earth gave birth to life, but life also changed the Earth. The current environment on our planet is the result of… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Our reality is narrow, confined, and fleeting. Whatever we think is important right now, in our mundane lives, will no longer be… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.” His” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“have you ever had anything happen to you that changed your life completely? Some event where afterward the world became a totally… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
In the early years after the Communist Revolution, politics and revolutionary fervor infused every aspect of daily life, and the very air… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“A newly formed planet appeared on the large screen. its surface was till red-hot, like a piece of charcoal fresh out of… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“The real universe is just that black. The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“She could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“As he left the hospital, he wasn’t scared. The only emotion he felt was loneliness. His alienation had been building up, but had been… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“None of these is in line with your original ideal of using the alien civilization as a way to reform humanity. YE: I started… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed. — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later. What would… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was exerted on… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever farther… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or written by… — Liu Cixin Copy Share
“Are you under the impression that the object of everyone else’s love actually exists?” — Liu Cixin Copy Share
My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people. — Liu Cixin Copy Share
