Liu Cixin

“Exponentials are the devils of mathematics.”

— Liu Cixin

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

— Liu Cixin

“We're all Flintstones.”

— Liu Cixin

“Most people would have difficulty explaining how they know two and two make four.”

— Liu Cixin

“But from the perspective of aesthetics, I must be right and the universe must be wrong.”

— Liu Cixin

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

— Liu Cixin

“Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!”

— Liu Cixin

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

— Liu Cixin

Science fiction stories reflect major issues that concern humanity.

— Liu Cixin

“Ten minutes later, the army had made a thirty-six kilometer square computer motherboard.”

— Liu Cixin

“I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe.”

— 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

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

— Liu Cixin

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

— 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

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

— 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

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the…

— 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

“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

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

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

— 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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

— Liu Cixin

“Killing one person was murder; killing a few or dozens was ore murder; so killing thousands or tens of thousands ought to…

— 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 aborted research project wasn’t important in and of itself. What mattered was the instruction that Ye Wenjie had given him, so…

— 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

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

— Liu Cixin

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

— Liu Cixin

As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me.

— Liu Cixin

“when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.”

— Liu Cixin

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

— Liu Cixin