Liu Cixin: Sci-fic is to stimulate readers' imagination
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E-mail CRI, August 31, 2015
Chinese writer Liu Cixin, winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, has gone on record saying it is science fiction's mission to stimulate readers' imagination and arouse their interest in science.
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Author of "The Three Body Problem" Liu Cixin says it is science fiction's mission to stimulate readers' imagination and arouse their interest in science. [Photo: weibo.com] |
At a book-signing for the second installment of his "The Three-body Problem" trilogy, the writer says the knowledge presented in his books is not science, but science fiction:
"I'm 100 percent sure that I know nothing about physics, cosmology or astronomy. The book targets at some general readers. Its function is to stimulate readers' imagination, broaden their mind and arouse their interest in real physics, real astronomy and real science, and then make them learn about it further more. I think it is the correct mission of a science fiction".
Last Sunday, "The Three-body Problem" received the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
It took two hours after the announcement for the books to grab a bestselling spot on Amazon.
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