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The Three-Body Problem

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Author: Cixin Liu and Ken Liu   Series: The Three-Body Problem

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The opening installment of China's best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy.

After a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal. During his investigation, Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that is the key to humanity's place in the cosmos and the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces.

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The opening installment of China's best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy.

After a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal. During his investigation, Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that is the key to humanity's place in the cosmos and the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces.

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Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.Praise for The Three-Body Problem:'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired'Immense' Barack Obama'Unique' George R.R. Martin'SF in the grand style' Guardian'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily MailWinner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

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Critic Reviews

“'A milestone in Chinese science fiction' New York Times .”

A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology -- George R.R. Martin
Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense -- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters, all conveyed in in a plain style capable of signalling hidden depths The Times
A milestone in Chinese science fiction New York Times
The best kind of science fiction -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Liu Cixin's impressive The Three Body Problem won the 2015 Hugo award for best novel, the first time a Chinese writer has taken that prize Guardian (2015 Books of the Year)
It's a stunning, high-concept, rollercoaster of a novel which offers an intriguing Eastern perspective... this is a trilogy which, like Asimov's Foundation epic, looks set to quickly become an essential science fiction classic' Starburst Magazine (rating: 9/10)
China has a lively SF scene inaccessible to western audiences until recently, so it's a great pleasure to read this book by Cixin Liu – the country's most popular SF writer – in English. Handled expertly on the terms of the genre, it is seeing this tale played out through a different cultural lens that makes the book fascinating. The translation is exemplary. The book is top-flight SF; smart, informative and engaging SFX
Hard science fiction at its finest, and fans will appreciate the superb attention to detail that drives this constantly evolving and impressive series SciFiNow
The writing is superb... The ideas are astounding, real eye-openers that expand the mind and really get the old grey matter going... A stand-out, award-worthy novel and one that deserves a place amongst the science fiction classics' SF Book Reviews
For a book that makes you think, and holds true to some of the traditional values of SF, this one can't be beat SFF World Magazine
[The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest are] the works of fiction I am most enthusiastic about Bloomberg
A celebration of science as saviour The Hindu
This book lives and dies by the quality of its ideas. Fortunately, the many, many different questions posed are fascinating and imaginative and I barreled through this novel right up to its gripping conclusion Bending Over Bookwards
A book rich in ideas, puzzles and theories but each of them is explained in a way that isn't only accessible but is also absolutely engrossing... The ideas are vast but they are beautifully expressed and, for this, credit must also go to Ken Liu who has done a fantastic job of translating this masterpiece. I loved where The Three Body-Problem took me – it is tense, wondrous and fascinating and I am so ready to read its successor, The Dark Forest, the next in this exciting, original and gobsmacking trilogy' For Winter Nights
A really fascinating book and I'm delighted that there are two more to come in the series... I'd recommend to readers who want to enjoy the science as much as the story' SF Crowsnest
A book that you must have read, whether you are a Science Fiction fan or not. Cixin Liu tackles so many different topics from action, thriller and a strong emotional backdrop... I cannot imagine what effort it must have cost to translate such an epic story to English but it paid off really well. A great performance' The Book Plank
Even what doesn't happen is epic London Review of Books
Cixin Liu began his massively ambitious trilogy with this dazzling work of SF... Hard to sum up in a few short lines, but one you read it you'll be doing your best to tell everyone else to follow suit' SciFiNow
Might be the biggest TV series to hit Earth this year… an adaptation of one of the 21st century’s most celebrated books Time
One of the first Chinese novels to truly make an impact with Western audiences, [Liu]’s mind-boggling epic has found fans in everyone from George R.R. Martin to Barack Obama Evening Standard
Formidable… The Three-Body Problem, written by the Chinese science-fiction godfather Cixin Liu, imagines a tantalising scenario Daily Telegraph
Even by sci-fi standards, the story is staggering in its scope – some portions are set 18m years into the future, in galaxies far, far away The Guardian
The series has outgrown its genre, both in China… and around the world, introducing casual readers to hard sci-fi in the same way Thrones once did for high fantasy GQ
A masterful elaboration on the extraterrestrial “what-if”, it is gratifying that a novel so steeped in Chinese thought and history is encountering such a wide audience The Conversation
Briskly told space-action thrillers, packed with mind-blowing and wondrous sci-fi invention and ideas The Times
[A] gripping and haunting sci-fi mystery Cosmopolitan
Incredible success… Liu is lauded as the man who put Chinese science fiction on the map BBC Culture

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About the Author

Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem – the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.Ken Liu is an award-winning American author of speculative fiction. His collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. Liu's other works include The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, and Star Wars tie-in The Legends of Luke Skywalker, and a second collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work including the short story 'Good Hunting', adapted as an episode in Netflix's animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories. 'The Hidden Girl', 'The Message', and The Grace of Kings have also been optioned for development. Liu previously worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics including futurism, cryptocurrency, the mathematics of origami, and others. Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Head of Zeus
Published
3rd December 2015
Pages
448
ISBN
9781784971571

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

02 Aug, 2022
This book is so good, worth every dollar you spend on it. It's a piece of art which can change your value and perspective. The day I finished the trilogy, I feel that all the challenges I face in reality it's not a big deal compared to what humanity has been through in this story.
By Leo
15 May, 2021
Outstanding
By Ian
29 Sep, 2022
Quite fun, little bit mind bending. some unbelievable parts that I thought felt a bit contrived.
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