'With three suns, people would not know when the next day would begin. 'The book discusses the fact that the biggest feature of a physical three-body system is that there are no known ways to predict its operation,' Liu says. For example, the uncertainty of living on the home planet of the aliens in The Three-Body Problem, the first book of the trilogy known formally as Remembrance of Earth's Past, is not a metaphor for some era in Chinese history, he says. However, in an interview with China Daily, Liu warns against drawing too many analogies from his stories. In the business area, they give respect to science fiction.' I've heard that 360, Tencent and Baidu also pay attention to this book.

I've heard that all his company members were told to read this book, study this book and use this book as a kind of guide to new developments in the market. It gave him some very important ideas about how to make a market work. Wu Yan, a leading science fiction scholar and professor of humanities at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, says: 'Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, thinks this work gave him secret ideas about how to do market competition. In 2015, the first volume won a Hugo Award for science fiction, a first for an Asian author.Īccording to Xinhua News Agency, the first volume of the trilogy has sold more than 160,000 copies in English translation and over 1 million in Chinese - unprecedented numbers for a Chinese science fiction novel. The trilogy was recommended by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Business and government leaders have studied the books and drawn lessons from them.įormer US president Barack Obama specially asked to meet with Liu during a recent visit to Beijing and has called the books 'wildly imaginative, really interesting'. The Three-Body trilogy by Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin is an international cultural phenomenon. Liu Cixin, the author of the Three-Body trilogy, says that how a civilization or its religion views the future is a key factor when analyzing the difference between Western and Chinese culture.

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