Liu Cixin
Chinese science fiction writer
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| 2024 | The upcoming work 'A View from the Stars' is scheduled for release in 2024. |
| 2024 | Liu Cixin served as the consulting producer for the TV series '3 Body Problem'. |
| March 21 2024 | Netflix announced the release date for the drama adaptation of The Three-Body Problem. |
| 2023 | Liu Cixin was the original writer for the TV series 'Three-Body'. |
| 2023 | Liu Cixin's '流浪地球' (The Wandering Earth) was awarded the Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. |
| 2023 | Liu Cixin worked as the executive producer for the movie 'The Wandering Earth 2'. |
| 2022 | Liu Cixin was the main interviewee in the TV series 'Rendezvous with the Future'. |
| November 2022 | Bilibili released a series exploring the science behind Liu Cixin's science fiction. |
| 2021 | Liu Cixin's '三体II 黒暗森林' (The Dark Forest) won the Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work. |
| 2021 | The novel 'Of Ants and Dinosaurs' was republished as 'The Cretaceous Past'. |
| 2021 | Liu Cixin served as the screenwriter for the movie 'Earth Rescue Day'. |
| November 2021 | Production for the Netflix adaptation of The Three-Body Problem began in early November. |
| 2020 | Liu Cixin's '三体' (The Three-Body Problem) won the Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work. |
| 2020 | Liu Cixin published 'To Hold Up the Sky'. |
| September 2020 | Netflix announced that it had ordered an English-language series based on Liu's trilogy The Three-Body Problem, with Liu serving as a consulting producer. |
| 2019 | Reporting indicated that work had begun on an animated adaptation related to Liu's works. |
| 2019 | Liu Cixin contributed as an original writer for the movie 'Crazy Alien'. |
| 2019 | Liu Cixin's '圆' (The Circle) was awarded the Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story. |
| June 2019 | Liu Cixin spoke about the Chinese government's policies, specifically supporting the one-child policy and China's Xinjiang policies during the same interview with Jiayang Fan. |
| June 2019 | In an interview published in The New Yorker, Liu Cixin expressed his views on politics, stating that he preferred to avoid political discussions and believed that democracy was not suitable for modern China. |
| February 5 2019 | The cinematic adaptation of Liu's short story The Wandering Earth was released in China, becoming the second highest-grossing film in the Chinese box office within two weeks. |
| 2018 | Liu Cixin received the Arthur C. Clarke Award. |
| March 2018 | Amazon was rumored to be negotiating for rights to adapt The Three-Body Problem for cinematic purposes. |
| 2017 | Liu Cixin's '三体' (The Three-Body Problem) won the Premio Ignotus for Foreign Novel. |
| 2017 | Liu Cixin's '三体' (The Three-Body Problem) won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Best Foreign SF work. |
| 2017 | Liu Cixin received the Locus Award for his work Death's End. |
| 2016 | The German translation of The Three-Body Problem, which included additional text from the original work, was released. |
| 2016 | Ken Liu translated the third volume of the series, Death's End, which was a finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. |
| 2015 | Liu Cixin won the Hugo Award for his novel The Three-Body Problem. |
| 2014 | In 2014, Liu Cixin released the work 'Time Migration' (时间移民). |
| 2012 | Mo Yan, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Liu Cixin's remarkable originality. |
| 2010 | He published the third book of the trilogy, 'Death's End' (死神永生). |
| 2010 | Liu Cixin wrote 'Of Ants and Dinosaurs', which was later published as 'The Cretaceous Past' in 2021. |
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