![]() The story opens in the heat of the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, where Ye Wenjie, the young daughter of a prominent professor of physics, witnesses her father beaten to death by Red Guard fanatics. It’s far from perfect, but in its best moments is so unlike anything hard SF has thrown at us before that no dedicated reader of the genre should overlook it. Given a graceful and accessible translation by multi-award winning author Ken Liu for its 2014 US release, it’s a unique tale of first contact and alien invasion set against the tumultuous political history of Liu’s homeland and the most mind-bending speculative frontiers of theoretical physics. Tweets by The Three-Body Problem, first in a trilogy, readers in the West are at last getting to sample the work of Liu Cixin, mainland China’s most popular science fiction superstar. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. ![]() ![]() All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. ![]()
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