Liu Cixin

It's not hard to read parallels between the Trisolarans and imperialist designs on China, driven by hunger for resources and fear of…

— 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

In the Chinese subconscious, the universe exists on a timeline that extends into the future without end, and also without change.

— Liu Cixin

“The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest,…

— Liu Cixin

“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.” His”

— Liu Cixin

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

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“Everyone is afraid of something. The enemy must be, too. The more powerful they are, the more they have to lose to…

— Liu Cixin

“Each individual’s behavior is so simple, yet together, they can produce such a complex, great whole!”

— Liu Cixin

Sci-fi novels are concerned with problems faced by all of humanity. Crises in sci-fi mostly threaten humanity as a whole. This is…

— Liu Cixin

“Human civilization was like a young, unworldly person walking alone across the desert of the universe, who has found out about the…

— Liu Cixin

“The three spheres continued to dance in my dream, a patternless, never-repeating dance. Yet, in the depths of my mind, the dance…

— Liu Cixin

Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent. But perhaps tomorrow we'll wake…

— 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

I'm absolutely positive about human survival. We will continue to develop our civilisation and expand not just on Earth, but also across…

— Liu Cixin

In the early years after the Communist Revolution, politics and revolutionary fervor infused every aspect of daily life, and the very air…

— Liu Cixin

I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that…

— Liu Cixin

“The real universe is just that black. The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the…

— Liu Cixin

“I think string theory provides an explanation.” “Some think that it is only when two strings encounter each other and some qualities…

— 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

“If you’re talking about dropping some bombs and turning that ship into smithereens, yeah, you military are the experts. But if you’re…

— Liu Cixin

“Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing…

— Liu Cixin

“The Archean Eon was followed by the Proterozoic Eon, each billions of years; then the Paleozoic: the Cambrian’s seventy million years, the…

— Liu Cixin

“Someone pointed out that the stone spheres at the rim of the canopy could symbolize the Jovian planets, but there were only…

— Liu Cixin

“In the universe, an important mark of a civilization’s technological advancement is its ability to control and make use of micro dimensions.…

— 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

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

— Liu Cixin

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

— Liu Cixin

Unexpectedly, 'Death's End' turned into a major success. It made a much bigger impact than the first two books in the series…

— Liu Cixin

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

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

“Loneliness pressed down on Ye like a giant hand, and she felt herself being crushed; compressed until she was so small that…

— Liu Cixin

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

“This wasn’t exactly regression, but a kind of spiraling ascent, a necessary condition for the exploration and settlement of new frontiers.”

— Liu Cixin

“The universal laws of physics are the most terrifying weapons, and also the most effective defenses.”

— Liu Cixin

“Madame Curie was never really accepted as part of that field. Her success was seen as a matter of persistence and hard…

— Liu Cixin

“He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water…

— 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

“have you ever had anything happen to you that changed your life completely? Some event where afterward the world became a totally…

— Liu Cixin

“The last bit of hope died in Tianming, and his heart was at peace. That afternoon, he filled out an application for…

— Liu Cixin

“Child, the moon is very lovely tonight. I just saw a kangaroo. I guess the refugees hadn’t eaten them all.”

— Liu Cixin