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Liu Cixin is Da Liu, then who is Xiao Liu?

1. "Xiao Liu" in the science fiction world refers to Liu Yukun, the translator of "The Three-Body Problem".

2. In the science fiction community, there is a saying that "Big Liu and Xiao Liu". Da Liu refers to Liu Cixin, the science fiction writer who brought Chinese science fiction to the world level, and Xiao Liu refers to Liu Yukun, the Chinese-American writer who translated "The Three-Body Problem" and introduced it to the West.

3. Domestic readers mostly know Liu Yukun’s name from his translation of the English version of The Three-Body Problem. In 2015, "The Three-Body Problem" won the Hugo Award. Liu Cixin once said: "Between the two distant cultural planets of Chinese and English, there is a spaceship connecting them, and that is the translator of this book, Liu Yukun. His translation is very good, almost perfect." Liu Yukun's promotion of "The Three-Body Problem" goes beyond being a translator. He also relied on his connections in the industry to invite many big names in the American science fiction community to write book reviews for "The Three-Body Problem", and published the book reviews in mainstream media such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. He used every possible occasion to recommend "The Three-Body Problem" to the English-speaking world. After a long period of hard work, the English version of "The Three-Body Problem" was finally published in the United States. For this reason, Liu Yukun was regarded as a leader in promoting Chinese science fiction to the world. In 2014, he was awarded the Special Contribution Award of the Fifth Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award. Japanese science fiction writer Tachihara Touya even said jealously: "Worldwide, we are not as influential as Chinese science fiction because we do not have Liu Yukun."

4. In addition to being a well-known translator, Liu Yukun is also a translator. An important science fiction writer. He has won two Hugo Awards, and his list of honors also includes the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, the French Science Fiction Award, the Chinese Nebula Award, the Chinese Galaxy Award, the Japanese Twitter Literary Award, the Spanish Premios Ignotus Literary Award, and the Russian FantLab Book of the Year. Grand Prize and many other major awards in the world of science fiction literature.

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