Science fiction broadens horizons, says Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin, the author of Chinese best-selling science-fiction trilogy The Three-Body Problem, says that science fiction "opens our minds to everything that we might see in the future".

Liu was in Dubai recently to participate in a meeting with readers in the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.

Liu says that science fiction makes readers interested in science, especially young people, which broadens their horizons as well as promotes their imagination and creativity.