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The 3 body problem book6/28/2023 ![]() Ye Wenjie witnesses her father, a physics professor, being beaten to death by student revolutionaries for advocating the "reactionary" theory of General Relativity. ![]() ![]() It begins in the 60s, during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Liu is an engineer, and it shows: The Three-Body Problem is hard science fiction with a mix of cultural history, conspiracy theory, and theoretical physics. Nominated for a Hugo (after some reshuffling of the ballot - I should really do a Saturday Book Discussion post about that :P), The Three-Body Problem is the first book in a trilogy by Cixin Liu so far, this is the only one that has been translated into English, but the others are forthcoming. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. ![]() An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. ![]() Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. ![]()
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