Cixin Liu is the most popular SF writer in China, having won the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) nine times, but it wasn’t until 2014 that The Three-Body Problem, the first volume of his enormously popular THREE BODY trilogy, was first published in English. Amid the Sad Puppies controversy, it deservedly won the 2015 Hugo […]
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Supernova Era by Cixin Liu Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu has had a successful career in China for many years, winning China’s prestigious Galaxy Award nine times. But it wasn’t until 2014, when his 2007 novel The Three-Body Problem was first published in English, that he became well-known outside of Asia. Since then, some of his […]
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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu When Cixin Liu opens his novel The Three-Body Problem during the abject years of China’s Cultural Revolution, you realize just how much of Chinese history and myth is already deep into speculative territory for most of us. The teaching of quantum mechanics is forbidden, the Copenhagen interpretation that posits […]
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The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu The Dark Forest is Cixin Liu’s follow-up to The Three-Body Problem (first published in English in 2014 and selected as a Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist), and is the second book in his THREE BODY apocalyptic SF trilogy (which was already published in China back in 2010). It took […]
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Death’s End by Cixin Liu Listening to Cixin Liu’s THREE-BODY trilogy reminds me of those graphics on cosmology that illustrate our relative scale in the universe. It starts with the microscopic world of individual atoms and molecules (or even subatomic particles like quarks and neutrinos), expands outward to individual cells, organisms, and larger creatures, then […]
Read MoreStuart Starosta´s rating: 5 | Cixin Liu | Audio | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Ball Lightning by Cuxin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen Ball Lightning (2018) is a story about, well, ball lightning. It’s also about obsession, the travails of science research, the moral perils of military research, and quantum mechanics. And ghosts — in fact, quantum mechanical ghosts. I’m not sure that’s something for everyone, but it’s a […]
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To Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu In my review of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, I stated I thought the novel had gone on too long and noted that while it wrestled with “a lot of big ideas … I just wished such questions had been surrounded by richer characterization and a defter […]
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There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Aye, and Gomorrah” by Samuel R. Delany (1967, free at Strange Horizons) “Aye, and Gomorrah” was first published as the final story in the ground-breaking […]
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There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. “Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (April 2016, free at Clarkesworld magazine, Kindle magazine issue) In “Touring with the Alien,” an unnamed alien […]
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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation edited and translated by Ken Liu Invisible Planets is an interesting and varied anthology of thirteen speculative short fiction stories and three essays by seven contemporary Chinese authors, translated into English by Ken Liu. As Liu mentions in the Introduction, several of these stories have won U.S. awards […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Cixin Liu, Hao Jingfang, Ken Liu | Hugo Award, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
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