In a novel by this author, a Byzantine woman mysteriously gains the ability to retrieve small objects but fails to use it to kill Mehmet II. The protagonist of a story by this author travels with Big-tooth to the South Pole and sees a god’s creation of a cloud containing all possible poetry. In a novel by this author, a society that later divides into factions called Adventists and Redemptionists is founded by Mike Evans. In that novel by this author, a virtual-reality game that flips between Stable and Chaotic Eras is used to simulate the title phenomenon experienced by Trisolaris. Years after witnessing her father’s death in the Cultural Revolution, Yè Wénjié (“yeh wun-j’yeh”) responds to an interstellar message and sparks an alien invasion in a novel by this author. For 10 points, name this author of The Three-Body Problem. ■END■
ANSWER: Liú Cíxīn (“lyoh tsuh-sheen”) [or Cixin Liu] (The second line is from “The Poetry Cloud.”)
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