Liu Cixin, author of The Three-Body Problem, has become the first Chinese to take home the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Awarded on Sunday by the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention in Washington, the 52-year-old writer is also the first in Asia to win the honor.
"The Three-Body Problem" is a trilogy depicting an alien civilization's invasion of Earth during China's Culture Revolution. It centers on a secret military project that enables humans to establish contact with the alien civilization teetering on the edge of extinction.
