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Liu Cixin, China's most popular science-fiction writer, is 52 years old and has written thirteen books. He worked as a software engineer at a power plant in Shanxi. In China, he is about as famous as William Gibson in the United States; he’s often compared to Arthur C. Clarke, whom he cites as an influence. His most popular book, "The Three-Body Problem," has been translated into English by the American sci-fi writer Ken Liu, and in China it's being made into a movie, along with its sequels. 刘慈欣是中国最受欢迎的科幻作家，现年52岁的他著有13作品。刘慈欣曾担任山西省某发电厂的软件工程师。他在中国的知名度可以和美国科幻作家威廉·吉布森Liu Cixin's writing evokes the thrill of exploration and the beauty of scale. "In my imagination," he told me, in an e-mail translated by Ken Liu, "abstract concepts like the distance marked by a light-year or the diameter of the universe become concrete images that inspire awe." 刘慈欣的作品唤起了人们对探索和宏观之美的兴奋感。在一封经刘宇昆American science fiction draws heavily on American culture, of course—the war for independence, the Wild West, film noir, sixties psychedelia—and so humanity’s imagined future often looks a lot like America's past. For an American reader, one of the pleasures of reading Liu is that his stories draw on entirely different resources. 毋庸置疑，美国科幻小说很大程度上取材于美国文化，包括独立战争、西部荒野、黑色电影、60年代的迷幻风潮，因此，人文科学所构想的未来世界与美国的过去存在很大程度的相似性。对美国读者来说，阅读刘慈欣作品的乐趣之一在于他的故事取材完全不同。 | 
