The Three-Body Problem Series: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End

Cixin Liu

Mar 2017 · Remembrance of Earth's Past · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Over 1 million copies sold in North America

“A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”—Barack Obama • “Provocative.”—Slate • “A breakthrough book.”—George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”—GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”—NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”—The Washington Post

The Three-Body Problem Series eBook bundle contains all three volumes of the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series—The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End—by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

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 trilogy is a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision.

The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End

Other Books by Cixin Liu
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up the Sky
The Wandering Earth
A View from the Stars

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ratings and reviews

Read the first and third book from library, and these takes me only a week to finish, a page turner. The thing that struck me is the part when they are conversing with the 4th dimension ring in the third book, and how it summarise the series universe and it's behaviour in a metaphorical dialog which literally covers the span of the universe life; dimensions destruction.Thus, I need to have it in my digital library collection.

An extremely creative sci-fi adventure that explores humans' relationship to the universe at large. Unfortunately, I felt the storytelling to be lacking in both pacing and consistency. Most of the characters felt fairly thin: there were only a couple characters in the series that felt "real" to me. Possibly the most difficult aspect of the series was a frequent sense of "why did I just read that?" Perhaps it is a commentary on human society, but I frequently felt like what I had been reading was entirely invalidated by some new development in the story. It is also worth mentioning that book 3 uses some blatantly chauvinistic tropes. That said, it should be reiterated that the science fiction aspect of this series is impressively creative. So if you are mainly looking for something that will take you out of the ordinary and feel that my critiques won't bother you, this will be a good series.

The author builds a magnificent universe filled with sci-fi wonders that is also very close to reality. His approach to classical sci-fi themes is new and refreshing. The story is engaging, the characters are fully fleshed out and the intrigues will keep you on edge. A must read in the sci-fi genre!

About the author

CIXIN LIU is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award, an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo), and a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award. He is the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End, and other books.

KEN LIU (translator) translated the Hugo-winning The Three-Body Problem and edited Invisible Planets, the first English-language anthology of Chinese SF from the 21st century. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards for his own original fiction, he is the author of the Dandelion Dynasty series of silkpunk epic fantasy novels (The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms) as well as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, a collection.

JOEL MARTINSEN (translator) is the managing editor of Danwei.org, a blog about Chinese media. His translation of an excerpt of Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning appeared in Words Without Borders.