After a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal. During his investigation, Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that is the key to humanity's place in the cosmos and the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces. 1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science.
This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of international scientists. During the course of his investigation, Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that immerses 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 humanity's place in the cosmos and the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces.
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Absolutely brilliant.
This book tempts you in slowly and then all at once. At first it was a bit daunting because of the references to the Chinese civil revolution and sciencetific developments during that period, but Cixin Liu and translator Ken Liu manages to ease readers through it with informative footnotes.
Cixin Liu draws you into the story with dynamic characters and a well thought out story before it even occurs to you that the book is science fiction. Skipping between the past and future is done so well that you can't help but get invested in multiple characters at the same time.
If you're into science fiction with excellent world-building, multi-dimensional female characters and some questionable morals thrown in this is the book for you. - Rina (QBD)
Guest, 21/06/2017
