Cixin Liu
刘慈欣
Cixin Liu is a Chinese science-fiction writer best known for *The Three-Body Problem* (《三体》), which won the Hugo Award and is one of only three Chinese-language works to receive that honor since the prize was first given in 1953 . In ZhenFund partner Yusen Dai's 2026 reading notes, he observed that Liu's famous "droplet" sequence in that novel clearly drew on Stanisław Lem's *Fiasco*, praising the "point" as top-tier science fiction . Elsewhere's corpus also notes that Liu wrote *The Three-Body Problem* while holding a day job as an electrical engineer—working at the same unit for 24 years after graduation—and that he is referred to colloquially as "Electrician Liu" (刘电工) .
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