In 2012, Chinese-American science-fiction author Ken Liu and translator Joel Martinsen were commissioned by the China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation (CEPIEC) to produce an English translation of The Three-Body Problem, with Liu translating the first and last volumes, and Martinsen translating the second volume. When he was not otherwise busy, he wrote three to five thousand words a day each of his books took about one year to complete. The other two famous novels besides The Three-Body Problem series are Supernova Era and Ball Lightning. Therefore, he decided to concentrate on novel-length texts rather than on short stories. When the short story Mountain appeared in January 2006, many readers wrote that they hoped he would write a novel. The Wandering Earth was adapted into a film in 2019. In 2000 he wrote The Wandering Earth and received the Galaxy Award again. In the same year his novel With Her Eyes won the Galaxy Award. Liu's first published short story, Whalesong, was published in Science Fiction World in June 1999. In 1989, he wrote Supernova Era and China 2185, but neither book was published at that time. He was an engineer before writing science fiction. The author, Liu Cixin, was born in Beijing in June 1963. The translation became the first Asian novel ever to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. The English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014. By 2015, a Chinese film adaptation of the same name was in production. In 2006 it received the Yinhe Award for Chinese science fiction, and in 2012 was described as one of the genre's most successful novels of the previous two decades. The Three-Body Problem was originally serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006 and published as a standalone book in 2008. The title refers to the three-body problem in orbital mechanics. The series portrays a fictional past, present and future where, in the first book, Earth encounters an alien civilization in a nearby star system that consists of three sun-like stars orbiting each other in an unstable system. The trilogy's second and third novels are The Dark Forest and Death's End, respectively. It is the first novel of the Remembrance of Earth's Past ( Chinese: 地球往事) trilogy, but the whole series is often referred to as Three-Body. 'Three-Body') is a science fiction novel written by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The Three-Body Problem ( Chinese: 三体 lit. Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Best Foreign Work (2017)

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