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Writer Liu Cixin meets fans and signs books during his recent trip to Germany. Bloomberg published a report under the headline "China uses sci-fi to try to spark a tech boom", after meeting Liu at the World Conference on Science Literacy in Beijing in late September. Lindsey Hall, senior editor with Tor/Forge Books, the US publisher of Liu's novels, tells China Daily that Ball Lightning is a great read for fans of the Three Body Problem, as well as those who haven't yet read the trilogy. "We're very open to working with more Chinese science-fiction authors, and the success of The Three Body Problem has helped make that possible," Hall explains, adding that the company is launching Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide in English in April 2019. I'm excited about tackling the challenges posed by the book's inventive physics, and doing justice to its fast-paced story of the pursuit of a scientific obsession," Martinsen says of Ball Lightning.
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