Questions tagged [liu-cixin]
Questions about the Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin (刘慈欣, born 1963) and his works.
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Earliest work of fiction in which characters using telepathy can't lie
In Liu Cixin's novel The Three-Body Problem (2006/2008),
the inhabitants of the planet Trisolaris communicate with each other using telepathy and are unable to lie. In Ursula Le Guin's novel The Left ...
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What narrative techniques and literary devices in The Three-Body Problem required or justified adjustment in the English translation?
In a postscript to the English translation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Ken Liu drew attention to his approach to the translation work. Ken Liu writes that "differences in linguistic ...
