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The opening installment of China´s best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy.

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.

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The Hugo Award winner and winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.

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.

´Cixin´s trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war´ Guardian .

´Wildly imaginative, really interesting ... The scope of it was immense´ Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States .

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´A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology´ George R.R. Martin.

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