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Which novel by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel and begins with a physicist in Cultural Revolution-era China making contact with an alien civilisation on a doomed trisolar system?
Answer: The Three-Body Problem — The Three-Body Problem (San ti) was the first translated novel to win the Hugo, and its 'dark forest' theory of cosmic sociology has been widely discussed beyond literary circles.
- A The Three-Body Problem ✓
- B Ball Lightning
- C The Dark Forest
- D Death's End
The Three-Body Problem (San ti) was the first translated novel to win the Hugo, and its 'dark forest' theory of cosmic sociology has been widely discussed beyond literary circles.