Chinese science fiction writer. He is a nine-time winner of the Galaxy Award (China's most prestigious literary science fiction award) and winner of The Hugo Award. Liu's work is considered hard science fiction. Liu's parents worked in a mine in Shanxi province. Due to the violence of the Cultural Revolution he was sent to live in his ancestral home in Luoshan County, Henan Province.[3] Liu received technical training from North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power. He has worked as a computer engineer for a power plant located in Yangquan, Shanxi.
