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Wildly imaginative, really interesting… The scope of it was immense — Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States

A milestone in Chinese science fiction ― New York Times

A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters, all conveyed in in a plain style capable of signalling hidden depths ― The Times

The best kind of science fiction — Kim Stanley Robinson

Vivid, imaginative and rooted in cutting-edge science… Cixin stands at the top tier of speculative fiction in any language’ — David Brin

Full of surprises and wondrous ideas… The depth of feeling here is extraordinary. Emotion and science brilliantly co-exist. To call the vision grand and ambitious seems a ridiculous understatement… I await the conclusion, Death’s End, in the spring with enormous anticipation. I have no doubt that when this trilogy is complete we will have a masterpiece on our hands’ ― For Winter Nights

Hauntingly gentle in its delivery and gorgeous in its own wondrous atmosphere, The Dark Forest is a quiet slice of lovely science fiction… it’s bursting with character and ingenuity’ ― Starburst magazine

Chinese SF has been neglected in the wider world for far too long ― Interzone

A breakthrough book… a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology, where kings and emperors from both western and Chinese history mingle in a dreamlike game world, while cops and physicists deal with global conspiracies, murders, and alien invasions in the real world’ — George R.R. Martin.

[The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest are] the works of fiction I am most enthusiastic about ― Bloomberg.

Even what doesn’t happen is epic ― London Review of Books