the three body problem

Award-winning author Liu Cixin didn’t miss a beat with his 2008 Chongqing Press publication, The Three-Body Problem. It’s the first of a sci-fi space opera franchise which ended in 2010 and each have notably sold somewhere in the vicinity of 500,000 thousand copies, and for a guy growing up with sci-fi under the enduring critical eye of China’s Communist rule, that’s something to be proud of. The book itself is set against the backdrop of Communist China with a story that focuses on the rift that occurs among humans when an alien race’s planet under the threat of its own demise sets its sights on Earth. The novel eventually found its way to North America last year when it’s availability was announced via Tor Books. Aside from Liu, it’s certainly benefitting a lot of people at this point, including those who’ve sought an opportunity to revamp the book into a […]

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