The author of The Three-Body Problem explains how science fiction emerged from the Cultural Revolution’s shadow, with the potential to speak across cultures
When he was a schoolboy, Liu Cixin’s favourite book was Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne. This might seem like a fairly standard introduction to science fiction, but Liu read it under exceptional circumstances; this was at the height of the Cultural Revolution, in his native China, and all western literature was strictly forbidden.
Now 53, Liu (western publishers present him as Cixin Liu to make it easier for readers to find his family name on the shelves) is a science-fiction writer of some renown, both in China and in the English-speaking world. His novel The Three-Body Problem won a Hugo award in 2015 and is currently being adapted into a movie, due in 2017. His sequel, The Dark Forest, was published in English in 2015, and the third book Death’s End, has just been translated and released in the UK.
Technological and social changes that took centuries in the west have been come in two generations in China
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