Order of Liu Cixin Books
Liu Cixin is a Chinese author best known for writing The Three-Body Problem and its sequels. The first book in the series was the recipient of the 2015 Hugo Award.
Cixin grew up in Luoshan County, Henan and then went on to graduate from the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in 1988. He would go to work as a computer engineer at a power plant while writing in his free time. He wrote China 2185 which earned him the moniker of the first Chinese cyberpunk author. Liu is a nine-time winner of China’s Galaxy Award. In 2018, he was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.
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Publication Order of The Three-Body Problem Books
| The Three-Body Problem | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dark Forest | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death's End | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Redemption of Time | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Daishang Tade Yanjing / Her Eyes on the Belt | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ball Lightning | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Supernova Era | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Liulang Diqiu / Vagabond Earth | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Quan Pingdai Zuse Sai Ganrao / The Complete Frequency Blocking Fortress | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Zhongguo Taiyang / The Chinese Sun | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Devourer | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Diqiu Dapao / Earth's Cannon | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jingzi / Mirror | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shanyang Renlei / To Support Mankind | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cretaceous Past | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Micro-Age | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| With Her Eyes | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Weight of Memories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sun of China | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mountain | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Taking Care of Gods | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Circle | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Of Ants and Dinosaurs | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| The Wandering Earth | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| To Hold Up the Sky | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A View from the Stars | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
(with Sylvain Runberg, Cai Jin, Ge Wendi, Bo Mu)
| Sea of Dreams | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wandering Earth | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Village Teacher | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Yuanyuan's Bubbles | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Butterfly | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Circle | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| For the Benefit of Mankind | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Three Body Problem, Part One | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Taking Care of God Vol. 1 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Carbide Tipped Pens | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Invisible Planets | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2016 Edition | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Reincarnated Giant | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Twelve Tomorrows | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Broken Stars | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Clarkesworld Year Ten: Volume One | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Liu Cixin Books, You’ll Love…
The Three-Body Problem is the first book in the series of the same name. The book is set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution and focuses on a secret military project that is trying to establish contact with alien beings. The signal is captured by an alien civilization who makes plans to invade Earth as their world is on the brink of destruction. The people on Earth all have different feelings about the aliens. There are those who want to welcome the superior beings and have them save their corrupt world. While others wish to fight against the invasion.
To Hold Up the Sky is a short story collection from Cixin Liu that was released in 2020. The stories in this book will take readers across space and time. The stories take place in a variety of different locations from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save lives of unleash a fire that will burn for centuries; to the very collapse of the universe itself. These stories have never been published in English prior to this release.