Liu Cixin is a renowned Chinese science fiction writer. He has won the Galaxy award nine times, and is the first ever Asian writer to win the Hugo award for Best Novel.

The Three Body Problem, translated by Ken Liu, is the first of the Three Body trilogy, formally known as the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. During China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret project tries to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilisation that’s about to be destroyed receives signals sent by this project, and decides to invade earth. Human civilisation becomes divided over how to respond to this alien contact.