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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781784971571Number of pages: 448Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'Wildly imaginative,really interesting...The scope of it was immense'- Barack Obama
'A breakthrough book...a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation,politics and history,conspiracy theory and cosmology,where kings and emperors from both western and Chinese history mingle in a dreamlike game world,while cops and physicists deal with global conspiracies,murders,and alien invasions in the real world'- George R.R. Martin
'A marvellous melange 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'- TheNew York Times
'The best kind of science fiction'- Kim Stanley Robinson
'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.
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