Nation’s sci-fi blasts off
1/5 A theater company gives a performance of The Three-Body Problem, a dramatic adaptation of Liu Cixin’s science fiction novel, in Yantai, Shandong province, in 2017. (TANG KE / FOR CHINA DAILY)
2/5 Chen Qiufan attends Melon X, a sci-fi convention held in Hong Kong in March. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)
3/5 Sci-fi novelist Baoshu (left) talks with a guest at Melon X in March. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)
4/5 Children read The Wandering Earth, a sci-fi novel by Liu Cixin, at a bookstore in Hunan province, in February. (XU XING / FOR CHINA DAILY)
5/5 From left: Chen Qiufan’s novel Waste Tide has been published in six countries; Baoshu’s book The Redemption of Time has been published overseas. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)