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The Inspiration Behind the Netflix Series Three Body Problem

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel with over one million copies sold across North America.

Praised widely by media and notable individuals alike, The Three-Body Problem has received wide acclaim, described by The New York Times as a truly mind-expanding epic and by The Wall Street Journal as a twenty-first-century War of the Worlds. TIME magazine hailed it as fascinating, while The New Yorker called it extraordinary. Barack Obama highlighted its remarkable creativity as wildly imaginative, Slate described it as provocative, George R. R. Martin declared it a breakthrough achievement, GQ found it impossible to put down, NPR praised its stunning conceptual scope as absolutely mind-unfolding, and The Washington Post stated simply, “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”

The Three-Body Problem, the first book in Liu Cixin’s acclaimed Hugo Award-winning trilogy, comes from China’s most celebrated science-fiction writer. During the turbulent times of China’s Cultural Revolution, a hidden military operation sends messages into deep space, hoping to make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. The signals reach a distant world teetering on the edge of disaster, prompting an alien civilization to plan an invasion of Earth. As humanity becomes aware of the approaching threat, people divide into separate factions—some eager to welcome these advanced beings and assist their invasion, seeing hope in civilization’s downfall; others determined to fight fiercely for humanity’s independence and survival. The outcome is a brilliant science-fiction epic of astonishing ambition, depth, and originality.

The Three-Body Problem Series Includes:
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death’s End

Other Works by Cixin Liu
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up the Sky
The Wandering Earth
A View from the Stars