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The three-body problem cixin liu epu Continue This article is about the novel by Cixin Liu. For a series of novels, see Memory of the Earth's Past. For other purposes, see the problem with three bodies (disambigation). San Thi redirects here. For a martial arts position, see Xin Yi Cuan. In this article, Chinese names are written with the surname first and given the name of the second. Liu Xin's surname is Liu. Ken Liu's surname is also Liu; he is American and uses an English order. The two are not related. [1] 2008 science fiction novel by Liu Cixin The Three-Body Problem AuthorLiu CixinOriginal title三体TranslatorKen LiuCountryChinaLanguageChineseSeriesRemembrance of Earth's PastGenreScience fiction, Alien invasionPublisherChongqing PressPublication date2008Published in English2014 by US Tor BooksPages302AwardsHugo Award for Best Novel (2015)Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Best Foreign Work (2017)ISBN978-7-5366-9293-0Followed byThe Dark Forest The Three-Body ProblemSimplified Chinese三体Traditional Chinese三體TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinSān tǐWade– GilesSan1 t'i3IPA[sán thì]WuSuzhouneseSe thìYue: CantoneseJyutpingSaam1 tai2Southern MinTâi-lôSam thé The Three-Body Problem (Chinese : 三体; Light: Three bodies; pinyin: s'tǐ) is a sci-fi novel by Chinese writer Liu Xin. The name refers to the problem of three bodies in orbital mechanics. This is the first novel about the memory of Earth's past (Chinese: 地球往事) trilogy, but Chinese readers usually refer to the entire series as a three-body problem. The second and third novels in the trilogy are The Dark Forest and The End of Death. The work was published in the journal Science Fiction World in 2006 and published as a book in 2008. It has become one of the most popular sci-fi novels in China. In 2006, he received the Chinese Science Fiction Award Yinhe Award (Galaxy). The Chinese film adaptation of the same name was in production by 2015, but was soon stopped. An English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014. He then became the first Asian novel to ever win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. The series depicts a future in which, in the first book, the Earth awaits invasion from the nearest stellar system, which in this universe consists of three solar-type stars orbiting each other in the unstable problem of three bodily, with one earth-like planet, miserably transmitted among them and suffering extremes of heat and cold, as well as the repeated destruction of its intellectual civilizations. Von Liu Cixin has published his work in the journal Science Fiction World since 1999. When The Mountain appeared in January 2006, many readers wrote that they hoped he would write a novel, so Liu Xin decided to focus on novels rather than stories. When he wasn't busy, wrote three to five thousand words a day, and each of his books took about one year. The first Three Bodies was first published in the journal Science Fiction World from May to December 2006. He got good answers from readers, so the book version was published. Chinese-American science fiction author Ken Liu was commissioned to produce an English translation of The Problems of the Three Bodies, which contains footnotes that contain references to Chinese history that may be unfamiliar to international audiences. A notable change in translation was that chapters taking place during the Cultural Revolution were moved to the beginning to serve as an introduction. Liu Cixin approved the change, as it was originally intended as a hole, but moved because of concerns from his publisher over its sensitivity under Chinese censorship policy. The plot of the story takes place in flash forwards, flashbacks, and now. Below is a chronological storyline. During the Cultural Revolution, E Wenjie, a graduate of astrophysics from Tsinghua University, witnessed her father being beaten to death during a session of the Red Guards at Tsinghua High School with the support of her mother and younger sister, Ie. Ye is officially branded a traitor and forced to join the Labor Brigade in Inner Mongolia, where she befriends a government journalist who enlists Ye's help in transcribing a letter to the government detailing policy proposals based on the book Silent Spring, which she read. However, Ye betrayed the journalist and sentenced to prison after the letter is seen as seditious by the government. In prison, she is recruited by Yang Weing and Lei Jicheng, two military physicists working under the Red Coast, a secret Chinese initiative to use powerful radio waves to damage spy satellites that require E skills in physics. Ye detects the possibility of amplifying outgoing radio waves using microwave cavities inside the Sun and sends an interstellar message. Eight years later, by now in a loveless marriage to Jan, Ye receives a message from a concerned alien pacifist from the planet Trisolaris, warning her not to react, otherwise the inhabitants of Trisolaris will find and invade Earth. The alien continues to describe the environment and the public history of Trisolaris. Ye, who is frustrated by the political chaos and has come to despise humanity, responds anyway, inviting them to come to Earth to solve their problems. Ye kills her husband, Yang, along with Lei to keep the foreign message secret. Some time later, with the closure of the Cultural Revolution and E's return to Tsinghua as a professor, E meets Mike Evans, the son of the CEO of the world's largest oil company, who is also radicalized and an antispecist. Seeing that Evans is also terribly angry with humanity, Ye trusts him with it on the Red Coast. Evans uses his financial resources to hire people and buy a giant ship, which he transforms into a mobile colony and listening to the post. After receiving messages from Trisolaris, thus confirming the story of E, Evans announces the creation of the militant and semi-secret Organization of Earth-Trisolaris (ETO) as the fifth column for Trisolaris and appoints E leader. According to the messages, the forces of the invasion of Trisolaran have departed, but will not reach the Earth for 450 years. The society attracts numerous scientists, small government officials and other educated people disillusioned with world affairs. They assemble a private army and even build small arms. However, Evans retains control of most resources and begins to change and retain alien messages from Ye and others. In addition, society breaks down into factions, Adventists (led by Evans) seek the complete destruction of humanity by trisolarans, and the ransompers (led by Shen Yufei) seek to help the Trisolans find a computational solution to the problem of the three bodies that plague their my planet. A third, smaller faction, The Survivors, intends to help the Trisolanas in exchange for the lives of their own descendants, while the rest of humanity dies. Currently, Wang Miao, a professor of nanotechnology, is asked to work with Shi Jiang, a cunning detective, to investigate the mysterious deaths of several scientists. They notice that the governments of the world are in close contact with each other, and have put aside their traditional rivalries to prepare for war. Over the next few days, Wang experiences strange hallucinatory effects. Wang sees people playing a complex virtual reality video game called Three Body (which was created by ETO as a recruiting tool) and starts playing himself. The video game depicts a planet whose climate is randomly flipped between a stable and a chaotic era. During chaotic Eras, the weather fluctuates unpredictably between extreme cold and extreme heat, sometimes within minutes. Residents (who are presented as having human bodies) are looking for ways to predict the Chaotic Era so that they can survive better. Unlike humans, they have developed a special ability to deplete themselves with water, turning into a roll of canvas, in order to lie in a dormant state when chaotic epochs occur, requiring another person to re-hydrate them. Characters resembling Aristotle, Mosie, Newton and others try not to model the climate as several civilizations grow and are destroyed by large-scale disasters. The van wins recognition by figuring out how the climate works: (1) the planet Trisolaris has three suns, (2) the sun has different kinds of compositions, and when they are far from the planet's surface only the sun's core can penetrate appearing in the sky like a flying star, (3) A stable era occurs when the suns are far away, and Trisolaris orbits third, (4) Chaotic Era occur when Trisolaris pulled more than one sun, (5) firestorms occur when two or three suns close to the planet's surface, (6) seeing three flying stars causing a severe cold, because it means that all three suns are far away, and (7) eventually three suns will line up and Trisrisola will dip into the nearest and will consume. The game shows Trisolarans building and launching colonies of ships to invade Earth, believing that a stable orbit will allow unprecedented prosperity and allow them to escape the destruction of their planet. Wang is introduced to the ETO, and informs Shea of one of their encounters, leading to a battle between the PLA and the community's soldiers, and the arrest of the E. PLA working with the Americans, led by Colonel Stanton, to ambush Evans' ship as he passes through the Panama Canal. To prevent the destruction of the crew's connection with the Trisolarans, the team follows Shi's suggestion to use Wang's nanoabaterial thread in the fence to quickly cut the ship apart and kill everyone on board (documents and computers cut by thread can be collected after).