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The Three-Body Problem

By: Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Over 1 million copies sold in North America

“A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”—Barack Obama • “Provocative.”—Slate • “A breakthrough book.”—George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”—GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”—NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”—The Washington Post

The Three-Body Problem is the first novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End

Other Books by Cixin Liu
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up the Sky

The Wandering Earth
A View from the Stars

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration
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“Remarkable, revelatory and not to be missed.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Shame that Mr. Daniels doesn't narrate the other ones as well. The Story is as expected even better than the series on Netflix.

I love the Books

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Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens.

Good SciFi backed by science

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THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!
Cixin Liu is a great writer with an enormous knowledge about physics and even more imagination.
Although the story lacks the telling speed of a Stig Larson it is overwhelming.
And, for an European, it IS a view behind the Chinese Wall. And it shows me, how little I know about China and the people there.
This SciFi Story is the weirdest thing I have read/heard for a long time, compelling.
I do NOT tell you a story line because this is a dense thing..
A MUST if you get along with lots of physics.

The characters are 3D all the way, no flat scene.
You will experience an alien world in a way that NO SciFi film was ever able to show me.
And you will learn about China in the time of the Revolution.

To bad I have read it already. But I will read it again.. now I will go for the sequel.

These 14 hrs where worth every second.
Say "Hello" to Da Zan if you meet him :)
This guy is refreshing as taking a shower in rain.

BTW: .
I like Luke Daniels.
It is really fun to listen to him, and he is able to make people and scenes appear in 3D, he amplifies the already good story even more.

HAVE FUN.

Stunning... lots of tension

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Characters are a bit lame, but the plot is amazing and the theories are super! sometimes is a bit too much, and sometimes you might need to sit and listen a physics lesson

Amazing

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Ein weiter Bogen wird in dieser Geschichte gespannt: von dem de-facto-Bürgerkrieg der Kulturrevolution, über einen schemenhaften Krieg mit einer Alien-Zivilisation, zurück in die Geschichte der kosmischen Grundlagen-Erkenntnisse ... und alles aus einer sehr chinesischen Sicht. Es dauert fast bis zum Ende, bis man den Handlungsbogen erkennt und die Geschichte zu verstehen beginnt.

Eine Vielzahl an Protagonisten tritt auf und es ist bei ihren für den Europäer ungewohnten chinesischen Namen sehr schwer, den Überblick zu bewahren. Äußerst hilfreich dabei ist der brillante Vortrag von Luke Daniels. Der ist wirklich top!

Insgesamt eine sehr komplexe, vielleicht nicht gerade spannende, aber sehr interessante Geschichte. SF vom Feinsten eben, die zurecht für den "Hugo" nominiert war.

Eine Komplexe Geschichte

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