Liu Cixin: ‘I’m often asked – there’s science fiction in China?’

 

 

"He says he would like people to “realise what the greatest uncertainty facing humanity is”, which, in his mind, is the potential for life on other planets, and the possibility that we could meet our extraterrestrial counterparts at some point. “I hope they realise that there’s this one thing that may not happen for the next 10,000 years, or it may happen tomorrow morning,” he says. “And that once it happens, our world and our lives will change completely. I hope that the series of 3 Body Problem will make people look up at the starry sky from their busy and trivial lives, even if it’s just for a moment.”"

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