The Three-Body Problem

During the Cultural Revolution a secret military programme sends a signal into space, and the reply comes from a civilisation with nowhere left to live. The Three-Body Problem is the opening volume of Cixin Liu's trilogy, translated into English and awarded the Hugo for best novel. The story moves between the political violence of the 1960s and a present in which physicists are dying and an elaborate simulation game hints at what is approaching. Liu builds his speculation on real physics and astronomy, and the scale of the questions, about survival, contact and the fragility of civilisation, is matched by an unusually patient structure. Reader orientation: • First book of a Hugo-winning Chinese science fiction trilogy • Dual timeline linking the Cultural Revolution to a present-day crisis • Hard science fiction grounded in physics and astronomy • Opens a series that continues across two further volumes For science fiction readers and anyone exploring translated speculative writing. Published by Head Of Zeus and stocked at Boipoka.