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1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge, and, with human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can coexist peacefully as equals, without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has made humanity complacent.

Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.

When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. The more he learns, the more he comes to realise that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen's quest provides a purpose for his lonely life, his reasons for chasing this elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own.

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breathtaking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. Stories included are 'The Village Teacher', 'The Time Migration', '2018-04-01', 'Fire in the Earth', 'Contraction', 'Mirror', 'Ode to Joy', 'Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming', 'Sea of Dreams', 'Cloud of Poems' and 'The Thinker'.

In those days, Earth was a planet in space. In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth. On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end. Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of 13 will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world running. But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents' world....

When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of the mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of a new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen’s quest provides a purpose for his life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own.

Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity - a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history. That Earth should harbour not just one but two intelligent species at the same time defies the odds. That these species, so unalike - and yet so complementary - should forge an alliance that kindled a civilisation defies logic. But time is endless and everything comes to pass eventually....

Escucha ahora el primer libro de la «Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos», el fenómeno editorial chino que ha conquistado al mundo y ha ganado el premio Hugo 2015 a la mejor novela. El problema de los tres cuerpos es la primera novela no escrita originariamente en inglés galardonada con el premio Hugo, el Nobel del género de la ciencia ficción. Su autor, Cixin Liu, ha sido considerado el gran descubrimiento del género y es capaz de vender cuatro millones de ejemplares solamente en China y de hacerse con prescriptores de la talla de Barack Obama....

L'humanité le sait désormais : dans un peu plus de quatre siècles, la flotte trisolarienne envahira le système solaire. La Terre doit impérativement préparer la parade, mais tout progrès dans les sciences fondamentales est entravé par les intellectrons. Grâce à ces derniers, les Trisolariens peuvent espionner toutes les conversations et tous les ordinateurs. Parallèlement aux programmes de défense classiques, le Conseil de défense planétaire imagine un nouveau projet : le programme Colmateur.

The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai. Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel The Three-Body Problem was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners.

Tras El problema de los tres cuerpos y El bosque oscuro, la tensa espera de la humanidad concluye ahora con un último episodio, - ya disponible en audiolibro - tan extraordinario como los anteriores, lleno de ideas electrizantes y una calidad de obra maestra. Ha pasado medio siglo de la batalla del Día del Juicio Final y la Tierra goza de una prosperidad sin precedentes gracias al conocimiento transferido por Trisolaris.

A View from the Stars features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.

Ahora la Tierra tiene cuatro siglos para defenderse de lo inevitable: la llegada de los Trisolaris. Los colaboracionistas humanos pueden haber sido derrotados, pero los sofones permiten a los extraterrestres acceder a la información de la humanidad, dejando al descubierto toda estrategia de defensa.

En pleine Révolution Culturelle, le pouvoir chinois construit une base militaire secrète destinée à abriter un programme de recherche de potentielles civilisations extraterrestres. Ye Wenjie, une jeune astrophysicienne en cours de "rééducation" parvient à envoyer dans l'espace lointain un message contenant des informations sur la civilisation humaine. Premier volume d'une trilogie déjà culte, récompensé par le Prix Hugo du meilleur roman en 2015, "Le problème à trois corps" marque l'arrivée d'un auteur majeur sur la scène de la science-fiction.

A mezzo secolo dall'Ultima Battaglia sembra essersi creato un equilibrio tra terrestri e Trisolariani: i primi beneficiano della conoscenza degli invasori spaziali e stanno compiendo grandi progressi tecnologici, mentre gli alieni stanno assimilando la cultura terrestre. Pare che le due civiltà siano pronte per iniziare una convivenza pacifica, tra eguali, senza l'assurda minaccia della reciproca distruzione. Tutto cambia quando Cheng Xin, ingegnere aerospaziale ibernata all'inizio del XXI secolo, si risveglia.

Nella Cina della Rivoluzione culturale, un progetto militare segreto invia segnali nello spazio cercando di contattare intelligenze aliene. E ci riesce: il messaggio viene captato però dal pianeta sbagliato, Trisolaris, l'unico superstite di un sistema orbitante attorno a tre soli, dominato da forze gravitazionali caotiche e imprevedibili, che hanno già arso undici mondi. È quello che i fisici chiamano "problema dei tre corpi", e i trisolariani sanno che anche il loro destino, prima o poi, sarà di sprofondare nella superficie rovente di uno dei soli. A meno di non trovare una nuova casa.

Das neue Buch vom Autor des Weltbestsellers Die drei Sonnen, jetzt als große TV-Serienverfilmung auf Netflix. Mit seinem Weltbestseller Die drei Sonnen hat sich Cixin Liu in die Weltgeschichte der spekulativen Literatur eingeschrieben. Zusammen mit Der dunkle Wald und Jenseits der Zeit hat Lius Trisolaris-Trilogie den Horizont der Science-Fiction verschoben. In der vorliegenden Sammlung von Erzählungen, Essays und Interviews gibt Cixin Liu erstmals Einblick in die Entstehungsgeschichte seines literarischen Denkens.

Der erste Kontakt mit einer außerirdischen Spezies hat die Menschheit in eine Krise gestürzt, denn die fremde Zivilisation hat sich Zugang zu jeglicher menschlicher Informationstechnologie verschafft. Der einzige Informationsspeicher, der noch vor den Aliens geschützt ist, ist das menschliche Gehirn, weshalb das Wallfacer- Projekt ins Leben gerufen wird: Vier Wissenschaftler sollen die ultimative Verteidigungsstrategie gegen die Aliens ausarbeiten - doch können sie einander trauen?

China in der nahen Zukunft. Der junge, ehrgeizige Beamte Song Cheng stößt auf einen gewaltigen Korruptionsskandal. Doch plötzlich wird er selbst ins Gefängnis geworfen. Dort taucht ein geheimnisvoller Mann mit einem Supercomputer auf, der ebenfalls verfolgt wird – weil er alles weiß. Einfach alles. Wie kann das sein? Und welche Konsequenzen hat das? Mit seiner Novelle Spiegel erweist sich Cixin Liu, Autor des Weltbestsellers Die drei Sonnen, einmal mehr als scharfer Beobachter der chinesischen Gegenwart und als literarischer Visionär der Welt von morgen.