| 1 | "That's not much," Liu says. | |
| 2 | The Three Body trilogy is a massive work of 880,000 Chinese characters, of which the third volume, which Liu took a year to write, accounts for 360,000. | |
| 3 | But Liu, widely acknowledged as the face of China's sci-fi writing, keeps trying to tone down the halo surrounding a much sought-after writer. | |
| 4 | Their disagreeing voices have been especially loud since his latest book, the much-awaited final volume of the Three Body trilogy, was launched on Nov 27. | |
| 5 | "Science fiction was pretty much all that I got to read in those times, most of these being translations from works by foreign authors," he says. |