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Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem

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THE HUGO AWARD WINNER.

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 unpredicatable 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.
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509 printed pages
Copyright owner
Head of Zeus
Publication year
2015
Publisher
Head of Zeus
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  • Elías Urquizashared an impression2 years ago

    Great ideas, with questionable execution at times. Definitely worth a read.

    Its cast of characters are mostly just tools to tell the story, save for one of them which does have quite an amount of development.

    The Three Body Problem is terrifying at times, specially as one gets closer to the ending. Its ideas will be ingrained into my mind for a long time.

  • Natalia Gunkovskashared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    One the greatest science fiction book of my reading year. A bit difficult in the parts of physics and astrophysics descriptions but understandable. Love the idea that aliens are not our friends)

  • Jonas Skovgaard Rasmussenshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading

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Quotes

  • Miriamhas quoted4 years ago
    If killing you would solve the problem, you’d all be dead by now. But the most effective technique remains disrupting your thoughts.
  • Alla Nabatovahas quoted10 years ago
    the first cry that could be heard in space from civilization on Earth was already spreading out from the sun to the universe at the speed of light. A star-powered radio wave, like a majestic tide, had already crossed the orbit of Jupiter.
  • Immanuel Simonhas quoted2 days ago
    Union had been tempered by the tumultuous experience of revolutionary tours around the country and seeing Chairman Mao in the great rallies in Tiananmen Square.
    But the commander was afraid of the dozen or so iron stoves inside the building, filled with explosives and connected to each other by electric detonators. He couldn’t see them, but he could feel their presence like iron sensing the pull of a nearby magnet. If a defender flipped the switch, revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike would all die in one giant ball of fire.
    And the young Red Guards of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade were indeed capable of such madness. Compared with the weathered men and women of the first generation of Red Guards, the new rebels were a pack of wolves on hot coals, crazier than crazy.
    The slender figure of a beautiful young girl emerged at the top of the building, waving the giant red banner of the April Twenty-eighth Brigade. Her appearance was greeted immediately by a cacophony of gunshots. The weapons attacking her were

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