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Chinese writers are managing to charm readers with tales of mystery & wonder

First came the blockbuster trilogy that has been an international sensation, and now get ready for the TV series that is likely to make the Chinese writer Liu Cixin an immensely wealthy man.

The trilogy in question is, of course, the science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem, and if the Financial Times of London is to be believed, Amazon is about to invest $1 billion to adapt two sequences of it into TV plays.