The Three Body trilogy is now complete, a monumental masterpiece of Chinese science fiction, clocking in at a total length of 880,000 characters. Writing the third volume, 360,000 characters in length, took Liu Cixin roughly a year. The publisher has revealed that Three Body III will be released in November at the earliest. Beginning on September 15, samples began to be released online and will eventually make up an excerpt of 10,000 characters.

In this essay, Joel Martinsen gives thought-provoking comments on some "soft" Chinese science fiction novels uttering social critique in an amazing way.