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The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu

Hugo Award (Best Novel) · 2015 · Winner
Tor BookssffISBN 9780765382030

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Hugo Award (Best Novel)2015Winner

About This Book

Set against the Cultural Revolution in China, a physicist receives a message from an alien civilisation facing extinction from a chaotic three-star system. The first book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. The first translated novel to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

About the Authors

Cixin Liu is a Chinese science fiction author born in Lushan, China in 1963. He is the most successful science fiction author in Chinese history and won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel for *The Three-Body Problem*, the first novel translated from Chinese to win the award. The novel is the first installment of his *Remembrance of Earth's Past* trilogy.

Ken Liu is a Chinese-American author and translator born in Lanzhou, China in 1976. He won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015 as the translator of Cixin Liu's *The Three-Body Problem*. He is also the author of his own acclaimed short fiction and novels, including *The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories*. Read more →

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