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.
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.
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 Magazine*
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 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 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'
*SFcrowsnest*
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*
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