Liu Cixin: I'm often asked there's science fiction in China?'

When it was first published here, Nic Cheetham, managing director of Liu's UK publisher Head of Zeus, remembers being unsure if anyone would turn up for a book signing with the author in a London bookshop.

But now, the novel has sold more than 3m copies in the English-speaking world, exceeding the total sales of all the literary works exported by China since the founding of the country.

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