Cover via Open Library · Open Library
The Three-Body Problem
Sign in to saveAlso known as Three-Body Problem
science fiction novel by Liu Cixin
Key facts
- Author
- Liu Cixin
- Original title
- 三体
- Translator
- Ken Liu
- Language
- Chinese
- Series
- Remembrance of Earth's Past
- Genre
- Hard science fiction
- Publisher
- Chongqing Press
- Publication place
- China
- Published in english
- 2014 by UK : Head of Zeus US : Tor Books
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Novel (2015) Kurd Laßwitz Award for Best Foreign Work (2017)
- Isbn
- 978-7-536-69293-0
- Followed by
- The Dark Forest
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Named after
- three-body problem
- Author
- Liu Cixin
- Genre
- hard science fiction
- Country of origin
- China
- Main subject
- first contact fiction
- Narrative location
- Panama
Show 9 more facts
- title
- Trelegemeproblemet
- publication date
- 2006-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
- place of publication
- China
- Library of Congress Classification (works and editions)
- PL2947.C59 S3613
- form of creative work
- novel
- different from
- three-body problem
- nominated for
- Nebula Award for Best Novel
- translator
- Ken Liu
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
~18 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; pinyin: Sān tǐ; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese hard science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars orbiting one another, a representative example of the three-body problem in orbital mechanics.
The story was originally serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006 before it was published as a standalone book in 2008. In 2006, it received the Galaxy Award for Chinese science fiction. In 2012, it was described as one of China's most successful full-length novels of the past two decades. The English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014. That translation was the first novel by an Asian writer to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel; it was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Three-Body Problem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.