In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I did not begin writing for love of literature. I did so for love of science. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
In the century-long history of Chinese science fiction, apocalyptic themes were mostly absent. This was especially true in the period before the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that the greatest and most beautiful stories in the history of humanity were not sung by wandering bards or… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, science fiction became a tool for popularizing scientific knowledge, and its main intended… — 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
“Please, everyone, let us keep our calm!” The Chief Scientist of the Ant Coalition, Professor Joyah, waved her feelers to quell the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“A few more years passed before I understood the distance between that satellite and the stars. Back then I was reading a… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The main difficulty is finding an idea that really excites me. We live in an age when miracles are no longer miracles,… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
