Cixin Liu - Reactor

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Books

reading recommendations

Five Sci-Fi Stories Without Human Characters

By Lorna Wallace

June 25, 2025

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News

3 Body Problem

Exclusive: 3 Body Problem’s Jess Hong to Narrate Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest

By Vanessa Armstrong

June 10, 2025

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Books

Five Books About

5 Excellent Middle Books in SFF Trilogies

By Chloe Gong

September 19, 2024

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News

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem Is Getting Another Adaptation

By Molly Templeton

June 17, 2024

Jess Hong as Jin Cheng, John Bradley as Jack Rooney in episode 103 of 3 Body Problem.

News

3 Body Problem

More 3 Body Problem Is Coming to Netflix

By Molly Templeton

May 16, 2024

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Book Recommendations

mystery

Five SFF Mysteries That I Couldn’t Put Down

By Cole Rush

April 24, 2024

News

trailers

3 Body Problem Trailer Makes Us Scared For Humanity, Just Like the Book Did

By Vanessa Armstrong

January 9, 2024

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Movies & TV

trailers

Teaser for 3 Body Problem Gives Us a First Look at Adaptation, and Release Date

By Vanessa Armstrong

June 17, 2023

Featured Essays

Climate Fiction

Mid-Apocalyptic Fiction: Writing Against a Climate Catharsis

By Theodore McCombs

April 4, 2023

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Blog

chinese sf

The Language of Chinese Dreams Is Science Fiction — And Sometimes They’re Nightmares

By Michael O’Krent

May 17, 2022

The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

Blog

book reviews

Big Ideas and Intimate Portraits in Cixin Liu’s The Wandering Earth

By Alexis Ong

November 11, 2021

The Three Body Problem coming to Netflix

Blog

news

Netflix’s Three-Body Problem Casts Twelve Actors in Unknown Roles

By Molly Templeton

October 29, 2021

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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