Three Body Problem (chinese)

If you are looking for an introduction to the best Chinese science fiction, look no further than Lui Cixin's stunning and much celebrated award-winning trilogy which has sold nearly half a million copies so far. Not bad for a simple power-plant worker living remote part of China turned best-selling, award-winning science fiction writer.Yes, Three Body Problem is Hard Science fiction and not 'Fantasy' but it's such an outstanding work and an example of a foreign speculative fiction novel that even took the English world by storm, a feat that's rarely ever achieved by a translated-into-English fantasy novel. Even more, this is the first time any Chinese work has penetrated so deeply and so successfully into the western market The Three Body Problem, originally written in Chinese, has been lovingly translated into English by none other than Ken Liu, the only author ever to win the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy Awards for a single work of fiction "The Paper Menagerie". Ken Liu also recently debuted his 2015 fantasy novel The Grace of Kings to high acclaim. Lui Cixin is China's most popular science fiction writer and China's vanguard of a new, burgeoning modern speculative fiction movement. The Three Body Problem won the 2015 HUGO Award for Best Novel. So as far as "translated science fiction" by foreign authors go, The Three Body Problem is one of the most critically praised speculative fiction books of the past decade. As such, this book should top your reading list if you are interested to see what else is out there outside the English sphere in terms of science fiction & fantasy literature. Hell, by winning the HUGO award any by being translated by a Hugo-Award winning author, this book is an absolute must-read anyways. While it may be part of the Hard Science Fiction subgenre, the Three Body Problem is, besides it's science fiction setting, fundamentally a story about the human condition. Liu said of his book that he 'wrote about the worst of all possible universes in Three Body out of hope that we can strive for the best of all possible Earths.' indeed, and that's exactly what Three Body sets out to do. It's an easy to read, utterly captivating novel about humanity -- the darkness, the light, and the hope that lies in our future.Three-Body Problem is part of a trilogy with book 2 The Dark Forest released in August 2015 and the final concluding  volume coming out August 2016.