The Three-Body Problem: Now a major Netflix series

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During the Cultural Revolution, a disillusioned astrophysicist sends a signal into space — and something answers. Decades later, a nanomaterials researcher is drawn into a conspiracy involving a mysterious virtual-reality game, a string of scientist suicides, and a countdown that appears in his field of vision. The connection between these events leads to a revelation about humanity's place in the universe that is as intellectually thrilling as it is terrifying. Liu's novel launched the most ambitious science fiction trilogy of the twenty-first century, combining hard physics, Chinese history, and philosophical speculation on a scale that makes most space opera feel small. The science is rigorous, the ideas are enormous, and the implications are devastating. The book that changed science fiction — by asking what happens when the universe finally notices we're here.