The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
Cixin Liu Three Body Problem 4 Books Collection Set
The Three-Body Problem
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 unpredicatable 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.
The Dark Forest
Imagine the universe as a forest; patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest; stealth is survival any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.Earth has. Now the predators are coming.Crossing light years; they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons; their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs; are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project; a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies; hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists; but the fourth is a total unknown.Luo Ji; an unambitious Chinese astronomer; is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
Death's End
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle; the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture; it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has also made humanity complacent.Cheng Xin; an aerospace engineer from the 21st century; awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis; and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
The Wandering Earth
Four centuries prior to the events of the story, astrophysicists discover that a rapid acceleration in the conversion of hydrogen to helium will cause the Sun to go supernova, destroying the Earth and the Solar System. In response, humanity establishes a global government known as the Coalition, which embarks on an ambitious project to move the Earth to the Proxima Centauri planetary system, which lies 4.3 light years away.