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Title: Three-Body Problem, The
Author: LIU CIXIN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/11/2017
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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. Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones . 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China’s 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. Wang’s 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 ‘A milestone in Chinese science-fiction’ New York Times ‘China’s answer to Arthur C. Clarke’ New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel
Series: The Three-Body Problem
ISBN: 9781784971571
Weight: 314gr
Dimension: 128mm X 197mm
Pages: 416
Edition: 01