Liu and Martinsen's translation of the novels contains footnotes explaining references to Chinese history that may be unfamiliar to international audiences. In 2013, it was announced that the series would be published by Tor in the United States, and by Head of Zeus in the United Kingdom. In 2012, Chinese-American science-fiction author Ken Liu and translator Joel Martinsen were commissioned by the China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation (CEPIEC) to produce an English translation of The Three-Body Problem, with Liu translating the first and last volumes, and Martinsen translating the second volume. It received good responses from readers, leading to the publication of a book version. The first 'Three-body' was first serialized in Science Fiction World, with published texts from May to December 2006. When he was not busy, he wrote three to five thousand words a day, and each of his books took about one year to complete.

Therefore, he decided to concentrate on novel-length texts rather than on short stories. When the short story 'Mountain' appeared in January 2006, many readers wrote that they hoped that he would write a novel. Liu's first published short story, 'Whalesong', was published in Science Fiction World in June 1999. The series portrays a future where, in the first book, Earth encounters an alien civilisation in a nearby star system that consists of three solar-type stars orbiting each other in an unstable three-body system. Thereafter, it became the first Asian novel ever to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. The English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014. By 2015, a Chinese film adaptation of the same name was in production. The novel received the Chinese Science Fiction Yinhe (' Galaxy') Award in 2006 along with many more over the years. It was published as a standalone book in 2008, becoming one of the most successful Chinese science fiction novels of the last two decades. The first volume of The Three-Body Problem was first serialized in Science Fiction World between May and December 2006.

The trilogy's second and third novels are The Dark Forest and Death's End respectively. It is the first novel of the Remembrance of Earth's Past ( Chinese: 地球往事) trilogy, but the whole series is normally referred to as The Three-Body Problem. The title refers to the three-body problem in orbital mechanics. 'Three-Body') is a science fiction novel written by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The Three-Body Problem ( Chinese: 三体 lit. Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Best Foreign Work (2017)

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