Science fictionist's stories to be turned into comic strips and published in China and France

A new project is set to turn Liu Cixin's stories into an international series of graphic novels, Mei Jia reports.

Author Liu Cixin's stories will be turned into comic strips and published as graphic novels in China and France starting in March.

In Japan, The Three-Body Problem, the first book in Liu's science-fiction trilogy, won the 2019 Booklog Award as the best foreign novel. Some 2 million copies of the books have been sold in 25 languages, according to the Chinese publisher.

During this year's China Science Fiction Convention in November, critics and researchers agreed that Chinese science-fiction works are gaining more international attention than ever before.

"Science fiction is a reflection of society being transformed by progress in science and technology. It tells the story of the Chinese Dream while encouraging us to pursue the dream, and offers insight into the future, or at least people's expectations of the future," writer Han Song said at the convention.