In my youth, when I tried to plan for the future, I had wished to be an engineer so I could get… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
In the Chinese subconscious, the universe exists on a timeline that extends into the future without end, and also without change. — 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
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
A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles;… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Killing one person was murder; killing a few or dozens was ore murder; so killing thousands or tens of thousands ought to… — 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
“During its short time in Venezuela, the US Army suffered casualties that approached Vietnam War levels, and it eventually had to withdraw.… — 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
