The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu Narrated by Luke Daniels

Overview

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Over 1 million copies sold in North America

“A mind-bending epic.”-The New York Times ¿ “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”-The Wall Street Journal ¿ “Fascinating.”-TIME ¿ “Extraordinary.”-The New Yorker ¿ “Wildly imaginative.”-Barack Obama ¿ “Provocative.”-Slate ¿ “A breakthrough book.”-George R. R. Martin ¿ “Impossible to put down.”-GQ ¿ “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”-NPR ¿ “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”-The Washington Post

The Three-Body Problem is the first novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

Set 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 plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, 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. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End

Other Books by Cixin Liu
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up the Sky
The Wandering Earth
A View from the Stars

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Remarkable, revelatory and not to be missed.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

APRIL 2024 - AudioFile

This new production of the Chinese sci-fi epic may be Rosalind Chao's first turn as an audiobook narrator, but you'd never know it. The veteran actor navigates long stretches of speculative physics and descriptions of shocking violence as ably as she voices colloquies among the characters. Listeners who come to the work from the Netflix adaptation will find Chao's warm, familiar tones--she plays astrophysicist Ye Wenjie in the series--carrying them into the Chinese milieu of the source story. She narrates with restraint, never overplaying Ye's increasing alienation or nanotechnologist Wang Miao's distress as mysterious phenomena hint at doom to come. Chao's brisk, no-nonsense evocation of the foulmouthed detective Da Shi as he connects the dots to reveal an alien invasion harks back to gumshoes of yore. V.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169138726
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	11/11/2014
Series:	Three-Body Problem Series
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	268,790

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