TV drama lovers in the U.S. will soon be able to experience the fantastic world depicted in a renowned Chinese trilogy by celebrity science fiction writer Liu Cixin.

On Tuesday, U.S. streaming giant Netflix announced plans to adapt the award-winning “The Three-Body Problem” and its two sequels, “The Dark Forest” and “Death’s End,” into an original English-language science fiction series. The three books tell the story of humanity’s encounter with a mysterious alien civilization.

The show will be executive produced and written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators and executive producers of the hit television series “Game of Thrones”.

“Liu Cixin’s trilogy is the most ambitious science fiction series we’ve read, taking readers on a journey from the 1960s to the end of time, from life on our pale blue dot to the distant fringes of the universe,” Benioff and Weiss said in a statement.

The two “Game of Thrones” creators will be joined by “True Blood” screenwriter Alexander Woo and several prestigious executive producers like Bernadette Caulfield and Lin Qi for the Netflix project, which also has Liu Cixin and Ken Liu, who wrote the English translation for “The Three-Body Problem” and “Death’s End”, as consulting producers.

“The Three-Body Problem” was first released in China in 2006, followed by its two sequels in 2008 and 2010. The books’ English editions were released in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

A film adapted from Liu Cixin’s novel “The Wandering Earth” hit cinema screens last year.

Contact reporter Ding Yi (yiding@caixin.com)

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