Liu Cixin

刘慈欣

An engineer by trade, Liu Cixin began writing science fiction in the early 1990s and published his first short story in 1999. Over the past decade he has won multiple awards for his fiction and has become China's most popular domestic science fiction author. Liu’s recent novels, beginning with the inclusion of Ball Lightning as part of Science Fiction World’s Nebula series, have led to increased mainstream attention to the genre. The second volume of his Three Body trilogy, The Dark Forest, made a number of year-end best-of lists in 2008, and his work has been critiqued in literary journals such as Book City and Fiction World.

 
Works by Liu Cixin
Qiuzhuang Shandian (球状闪电), published by Sichuan Science and Technology Press in July, 2004
lit. "Ball Lightning", currently untranslated