Among science fiction authors there are a few awards which are given out annually to recognize the best novels, novellas, short stories, artists, etc. The most prestigious of these is the Hugo Award named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the magazine Amazing Stories. The first Hugo award was given out in the early 1950s and since that time they form a pretty good guide to the very best the genre has to offer.
In 2015, a Chinese author named Cixin Liu won the Hugo Award for his novel The Three-Body Problem, becoming the first Asian author to ever win the award. The novel was very popular, both in Chinese and in English and last year it was adapted for television as a 30-episode series in China. (I watched a few episodes of the Chinese show and in my opinion it wasn’t very good.) But the show was also adapted for Netflix as an 8-episode show called “3 Body Problem” which…
