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Wildly imaginative, really interesting. --President Barack Obama on the Three-Body Problem trilogy

A breakthrough book . . . a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology. --George R. R. Martin, on The Three Body Problem

Extraordinary. --The New Yorker, on The Three Body Problem

Remarkable, revelatory and not to be missed. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Three Body Problem

A must-read in any language. --Booklist, on The Three Body Problem

A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos-in-the-balance thriller.... a testament to just how far [Liu's] own towering imagination has taken him: Far beyond the borders of his country, and forever into the canon of science fiction. - NPR, on Death's End

The best kind of science fiction, familiar but strange all at the same time. -- Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Three Body Problem

CIXIN LIU is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is avwinner of the Hugo Award, an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo), and a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award.

KEN LIU (translator) is a writer, lawyer, and computer programmer. His short story The Paper Menagerie was the first work of fiction ever to sweep the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. He has written two novels (The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms) and edited and translated the Chinese science fiction anthology Invisible Planets.