Even what doesn’t happen is epic
Nick Richardson: Chinese SF, 8 February 2018
The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu.
Head of Zeus, 416 pp., £8.99, January 2016,978 1 78497 157 1 Show More
by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu.
Head of Zeus, 416 pp., £8.99, January 2016,
The Dark Forest
by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen.
Head of Zeus, 512 pp., £8.99, July 2016,978 1 78497 161 8 Show More
by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen.
Head of Zeus, 512 pp., £8.99, July 2016,
Death’s End
by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu.
Head of Zeus, 724 pp., £8.99, May 2017,978 1 78497 165 6 Show More
by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu.
Head of Zeus, 724 pp., £8.99, May 2017,
“... Science fiction isn’t new to China, as Cixin Liu explains in Invisible Planets, an introduction to Chinese sci-fi by some of its most prominent authors, but good science fiction is. The first Chinese sci-fi tales appeared at the turn of the 20th century, written by intellectuals fascinated by Western technology. ‘At its birth,’ Cixin writes, science fiction ‘became a tool of propaganda for the Chinese who dreamed of a strong China free of colonial depredations ... ”
