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Synopsis
Experience Cixin Liu's award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three Body Problem. A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens--and succeeds. Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth. News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost. The Three Body Problem begins a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision. "The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder." --The Wall Street Journal The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)
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Is The Three-Body Problem appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This hard science fiction novel contains strong violence, suicide, political persecution, and mature themes about humanity's response to alien contact. The Cultural Revolution context includes political violence and historical trauma.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include suicide, genocide, mass death, and death (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens interested in hard science fiction and first contact scenarios will find a thought-provoking exploration of humanity's choices when faced with superior alien civilization.