The Three-Body Problem

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The first book in Liu Cixin's groundbreaking trilogy. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, it tells the story of humanity's first contact with an alien civilization. Ye Wenjie, a disillusioned astrophysicist, sends a message to the stars inviting extraterrestrial intelligence to come to Earth. The Trisolar civilization, struggling for survival on a planet with three suns, responds.

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