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Remembrance of Earth's Past

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing · 1265 pages

FICTION · Science Fiction · GeneralFiction · Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionFiction · Science Fiction · Alien ContactFiction · World Literature · China · 21st Century

About this book

An omnibus edition of books 1–3 in China's apocalyptic space opera trilogy, comprising The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest and Death's End. 'This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the ground floor while you still can' Esquire Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and ph…

Who this is for

AI · Sample

A patient, character-first epic that asks you to sit with worldbuilding before any payoff arrives. Readers who love long arcs and slow-burn relationships tend to finish it twice; readers chasing momentum often DNF in the first hundred pages. Plan for unhurried evenings.

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  • This book

An ideas-driven with strong world, awestruck and immersive read.

The series

3 books · ongoing

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