The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China’s most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. 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 universe is a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, others are hell, a dire existential threat. Stealth is survival. Any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. And the others are on the way. The Trisolarian fleet has left their homeworld and will arrive… in four centuries’ time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional emissaries, are already here and have infiltrated human society and and de-railed scientific progress. Only the individual human mind remains immune to the sophons. 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 Earth and Trisolaris 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. [This text contains hieroglyphs.]

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. It is an uneasy balance, but the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge has triggered an era of unprecedented prosperity on Earth. 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 has peace also made humanity complacent? Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation into this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may fatally upset the delicate balance between two worlds. The universe is a dark and dangerous place, devoid of mercy or sentiment. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

宇宙最底層的毀滅力量即將被喚醒，誰能逃離這場慘烈的獵殺？ 與三體文明的戰爭讓人類第一次看見宇宙黑暗的真相，地球文明像一個恐懼的孩子，熄滅了尋友的希望，在暗夜中瑟瑟發抖。 為了與三體文明抗衡，地球文明選出了掌握全人類命運的「執劍人」。執劍人終日鎮守著一個開關——這個開關主宰了兩個世界的戰略平衡，當危機來臨時，執劍人必須毅然按下毀滅世界的按鈕，讓兩個文明同歸於盡。 第一代執劍人羅輯孤寂地堅守崗位，緊握著每一秒都一觸即發的地雷，維持著兩個世界的恐怖平衡。半個世紀的漫長歲月過去了，羅輯終於完成他的使命，新一代的執劍人也即將誕生。然而就在此時，宇宙最底層的毀滅力量卻悄悄地被喚醒……