The Three-Body Problem
Hugo winner 2015 — the first novel in translation and the first by an Asian writer to take the award — opening Anglophone SF to Chinese science fiction at a stroke; adapted by Netflix and, at length, Tencent.
Series Guide
Remembrance of Earth's Past
by Liu Cixin
The Three-Body trilogy: from a Cultural Revolution radio signal to the end of the universe, via the Dark Forest — first contact as cosmic game theory.
In the Guide
The Dark Forest
Source of the Dark Forest hypothesis, now genuine currency in Fermi-paradox and existential-risk debates — the rare SF concept to cross into scientific discourse with its name attached.
Death's End
Locus Award winner and Hugo finalist; the trilogy's conclusion sealed its standing as the century's most influential work of translated SF and a summit of cosmological imagination.