The three-body problem
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 begins planning their introduction to Earth. Over the next few decades, they establish first contact via very unlikely means: an unusual online video game steeped in philosophy and history. As the aliens begin to win earthbound players of the game over to their side, 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
Print Book, English, ©2006, 2014
First U.S. edition View all formats and editions
Tor, New York, ©2006, 2014
Three Body Trilogy, bk. 1
Fiction
6, 399 pages ; 25 cm.
9780765377067, 9780765382030, 0765382032, 0765377063
1030653036
"The bestselling Chinese science fiction novel, available in English for the first time"--Cover
"Hugo Award winner"--Cover
Translated from the Chinese