back to article The elegant, strange and fascinating world of Three Body comes to English readers

Three Body, as it’s known in China, is prominent sci-fi author Liu Cixin’s trilogy of an alien invasion of Earth, one of the most enduring sci-fi tales since the birth of the genre. With The Three Body Problem, the English translation of the first book, Liu’s wildly popular trilogy comes to the English-speaking world for the …

  1. Shannon Jacobs
    Holmes

    Point of clarification?

    There appear to be a number of prior translations into English of books by an author of the same name. Is this a different series, a different author whose name appears the same in English, or a failure by the Register contributor to check the background?

    1. John Gamble

      Re: Point of clarification?

      Perhaps you could clarify this comment yourself, and provide links? Why should El Reg provide links to books by a different author?

      The Tor website link (provided in the article) was informative, and there's a Wikipedia article for Liu Cixin, which in turn provides external links for more information on the author.

    2. Odo

      Re: Point of clarification?

      A number of short stories and novellas by Liu Cixin (including masterpieces such as The Wandering Earth, Taking Care of God or Mountain) have already been translated into English and published by Guomi (I am a huge fan of Liu Cixin's work and I interviewed the editor of these stories a couple of years back http://sentidodelamaravilla.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/interview-with-verbena-cw-editor-of-liu.html )

      The Three-Body Problem is, though, the first NOVEL by Liu Cixin to be translated into English.

  2. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

    @Brid-Aine

    Thanks for the heads-up.

    Just read it and it is indeed an interesting, absorbing and thought-provoking book. Hope the rest of the trilogy will be published as well, and soon!

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