The Three-Body Problem: Now a major Netflix series by Cixin Liu Paperback Book

Description: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during Chinas 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. Wangs 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.Praise for The Three-Body Problem: Your next favourite sci-fi novel Wired Immense Barack Obama Unique George R.R. Martin SF in the grand style Guardian Mind-altering and immersive Daily Mail Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Cixin Liu is Chinas #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. Lius 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 Netflixs animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMCs 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. Review A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology -- George R.R. MartinWildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense -- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United StatesA 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 RobinsonLiu Cixins 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) *Its a stunning, high-concept, rollercoaster of a novel which offers an intriguing Eastern perspective... this is a trilogy which, like Asimovs 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 its a great pleasure to read this book by Cixin Liu – the countrys 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 *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 cant 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 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 isnt 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 Im delighted that there are two more to come in the series... Id recommend to readers who want to enjoy the science as much as the story * SF Crowsnest *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 doesnt 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 youll be doing your best to tell everyone else to follow suit * SciFiNow *Might be the biggest TV series to hit Earth this year… an adaptation of one of the 21st centurys most celebrated books * Time *One of the first Chinese novels to truly make an impact with Western audiences, [Liu]s mind-boggling epic has found fans in everyone from George R.R. Martin to Barack Obama * Evening Standard *Formidable… The Three-Body Problem, written by the Chinese science-fiction godfather Cixin Liu, imagines a tantalising scenario * Daily Telegraph *Even by sci-fi standards, the story is staggering in its scope – some portions are set 18m years into the future, in galaxies far, far away * The Guardian *The series has outgrown its genre, both in China… and around the world, introducing casual readers to hard sci-fi in the same way Thrones once did for high fantasy * GQ *A masterful elaboration on the extraterrestrial "what-if", it is gratifying that a novel so steeped in Chinese thought and history is encountering such a wide audience * The Conversation *Briskly told space-action thrillers, packed with mind-blowing and wondrous sci-fi invention and ideas * The Times *[A] gripping and haunting sci-fi mystery * Cosmopolitan *Incredible success… Liu is lauded as the man who put Chinese science fiction on the map * BBC Culture *A dazzlingly complex narrative full of unpredictable shifts of pace and tone, with the reader pushed and pulled between heavyweight issues: tricky physics, philosophy, Chinese history, and planetary annihilation * Daily Mail * Promotional The opening installment of Chinas best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy. Details ISBN1035911922 Author Ken Liu Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series The Three-Body Problem Year 2024 Translator Ken Liu ISBN-13 9781035911929 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-07 Imprint Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 895.136 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-03-07 Pages 448 Subtitle Now a major Netflix series ISBN-10 1035911922 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159046909;

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