Liu is acclaimed to be the Jin Yong (the number one Kung Fu novelist) of Chinese sci-fi. Professor Derwei Wang touted The Three-Body Problem as the top pick of the Chinese sci-fi genre. The trilogy has been translated into English, titled The Three-body Problem, by Ken Liu (book 1 and 3, ) the sci-fi writer who swept the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy Awards, and Joel Martinsen (book 2). How would humans evaluate this civilization? Should they take them as foe or friend? Cixin Liu is an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and a winner of the Nebula Award. An alien civilization of a dying planet is about to take over the earth. The Three-body Problem is book 1 of 3 of the phenomenal science fiction The Three-body Problem trilogy (also known as Remembrance of Earths Past) by China's top sci-fi novelist Liu Cixin. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. The destiny of human beings was approaching. After locking the earthman's basic science with super technology, the huge universe fleet of the Three-Body started to march towards the earth. And at the very moment, they received the message from the earth. After hundreds of destruction and resurrection, they were forced to break away from the home planet. Just like the earth, they also revolve around the sun, but quite randomly. Four light years away, the Three-Body civilization is in big trouble. The first signal from the earth, with the sun as its center, dashed forward to the deeper side of the universe.

But when Wenjie Ye pressed the launch key, she didn't know the destiny of human beings had been completely changed. Back in those days, Hongan, a secret military project, aiming to explore outer space civilization and establish contact with aliens, had made breakthrough progress.

The Three-Body Problem is a masterpiece of enormous scope and vision, written by Cixin, Liu, the most prevailing science fiction writer in China today and tells a story set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution.

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