📖 peek insideThe Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. Decades later, a series of inexplicable suicides among scientists leads nanotech engineer Wang Miao to discover a mysterious virtual reality game. He soon uncovers a global conspiracy involving an extraterrestrial civilization on the brink of destruction. This mind-bending hard science fiction novel explores the 'Dark Forest' theory and the terrifying implications of first contact for the future of humanity.
A popular book with millions of readers worldwide.
Notable Quotes
"No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself."
"To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science."
"It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race."
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