Liu Cixin

“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results…

— Liu Cixin

“She could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no…

— Liu Cixin

“As he left the hospital, he wasn’t scared. The only emotion he felt was loneliness. His alienation had been building up, but…

— Liu Cixin

“Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We’re trapped”

— Liu Cixin

I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It…

— Liu Cixin

“None of these is in line with your original ideal of using the alien civilization as a way to reform humanity. YE:…

— Liu Cixin

“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.”

— Liu Cixin

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.

— Liu Cixin

“Suppose two thousand years ago, or even earlier, humanity learned that an alien invasion fleet would arrive a few thousand years later.…

— Liu Cixin

“Make time for life, or life won’t make time.”

— Liu Cixin

The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was…

— Liu Cixin

“Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze…

— Liu Cixin

“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

“Are you under the impression that the object of everyone else’s love actually exists?”

— Liu Cixin

My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people.

— Liu Cixin

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in…

— Liu Cixin

“Later, there was a more moderate and localized proposal for taking advantage of curved space for navigation. Supposing a spaceship could somehow…

— Liu Cixin

“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside…

— Liu Cixin

“this old woman, who had weathered so many storms and become as gentle as water,”

— Liu Cixin

“The classic images Shakespeare, Balzac, and Tolstoy created were born from their mental wombs. But today's practitioners of literacture have lost that…

— Liu Cixin

There's nothing special or memorable about me. I always blend into any crowd.

— Liu Cixin

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

— Liu Cixin

“Please, everyone, let us keep our calm!” The Chief Scientist of the Ant Coalition, Professor Joyah, waved her feelers to quell the…

— Liu Cixin

“No one knew where the other six droplets had gone. Trisolaris claimed that the six droplets had left the Solar System to…

— Liu Cixin

“We cherish all that we have accomplished. But our world is still flawed. Hate exists, as does prejudice and war.”

— Liu Cixin