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Liu Cixin was born in Beijing in June 1963. Before beginning his career as an author, he was an engineer. In 1989, he wrote Supernova Era and China 2185, but neither book was published at that time. Liu's first published short story, Whalesong, was published in Science Fiction World in June 1999. In the same year, his novel With Her Eyes won the Galaxy Award. In 2000, he wrote The Wandering Earth, which also received the Galaxy Award. The Wandering Earth was adapted into a film in 2019. When the short story Mountain appeared in January 2006, many readers wrote that they hoped Liu would write a novel. Therefore, he decided to concentrate on novel-length texts rather than on short stories. Outside of Remembrance of Earth's Past, Liu's notable novels include Supernova Era and Ball Lightning. When not otherwise busy, Liu wrote three to five thousand words a day; each of his books reportedly took about one year to complete.