The Three-Body Problem: Now a major Netflix series

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution, shaping her life and the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. His investigation leads him to a mysterious online game and a virtual world ruled by the interaction of its three suns, the key to the scientists' deaths, a conspiracy that spans light-years, and the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 12 September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. Praise for "The Three-Body Problem": "Your next favourite sci-fi novel" - Wired "Immense" - Barack Obama "Unique" - George R.R. Martin "SF in the grand style" - Guardian "Mind-altering and immersive" - Daily Mail "Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel"

Weight: 644g
Dimension: 235 x 158 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035909575