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SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES \nTHE AWARD-WINNING, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, MILLION-COPY-SELLING SCI-FI \nPHENOMENON \nImagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. \nImagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. \nThis is Cixin Liu’s THREEBODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. \nWeaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light \nyears of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity’s struggle to reach \nthe stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum. Available \nnow in one boxed set, including: \n1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM \n2 THE DARK FOREST \n3 DEATH’S END \n‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORKER \n‘SF in the grand style’ GUARDIAN \n‘Your next favourite scifi novel’ WIRED \n‘Wildly imaginative... immense’ BARACK OBAMA \n‘War of the Worlds for the 21st century’ WALL STREET JOURNAL \n‘A breakthrough book’ GEORGE R.R. MARTIN \n‘The best kind of science fiction’ KIM STANLEY ROBINSON \n‘Concludes with sweep and scope and majesty’ DAVID BRIN \n‘Even what doesn’t happen is epic’ LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem: the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan. Ken Liu is an award-winning American author of speculative fiction. His collection, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. Liu's other works include The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms, and Star Wars tie-in The Legends of Luke Skywalker, and a second collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He has been involved in multiple media adaptations of his work including the short story 'Good Hunting', adapted as an episode in Netflix's animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC's Pantheon, adapted from an interconnected series of short stories. 'The Hidden Girl', 'The Message', and The Grace of Kings have also been optioned for development. Liu previously worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on topics including futurism, cryptocurrency, the mathematics of origami, and others. Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
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