Liu Cixin, author of 'The Three-Body Problem': “Having original ideas is increasingly difficult” The science fiction writer has created worlds dominated by nanomaterials, travel at the speed of light, folds of dimensions and battles in the stars. The adaptation of his trilogy now comes as a series to Netflix for an amount that has not been revealed.

In 2015 he became the first Asian to win the Hugo Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for science fiction, for his work.