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| Author | Liu Cixin |
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| Original title | 三体 |
| Translator | Ken Liu |
| Language | Chinese |
| Series | Remembrance of Earth's Past |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Chongqing Press |
Publication date | 2008 |
| Publication place | China |
Published in English | 2014 by |
| Pages | 390 |
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| ISBN | 978-7-536-69293-0 |
| Followed by | The Dark Forest |
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| Simplified Chinese | 三体 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 三體 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Three Body" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.[1] The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars orbiting one another, a representative example of the three-body problem in orbital mechanics.
The story was originally serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006 before it was published as a standalone book in 2008.[2] In 2006, it received the Galaxy Award for Chinese science fiction.[3] In 2012, it was described as one of China's most successful full-length novels of the past two decades.[4] The English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014.[5] That translation was the first novel by an Asian writer to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel;[6][7] it was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.[8]
The book has been adapted into other media. In 2015, a Chinese film adaptation of the same name was in production, but it was never released. A Chinese TV series, Three-Body, released in early 2023 to critical success locally. An English-language Netflix series adaptation, 3 Body Problem, was released in March 2024.
- ^ Liu, Cixin (May 7, 2014). "The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three Body and Chinese Science Fiction". Tor.com. Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
- ^ Yeung, Jessie. "Game of Thrones producers to adapt Chinese sci-fi 'The Three-Body Problem' for Netflix". CNN. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
- ^ Clute, John. "Yinhe Award" Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, Science Fiction Encyclopedia, 3rd edition. Accessed November 21, 2017
- ^ Chen, Xihan (November 30, 2012). 《三体》选定英文版美国译者 [U.S. Translator Selected for English Version of 'Three Bodies'] (in Chinese). Xinhua. Archived from the original on March 1, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
- ^ "Three Body." Ken Liu Official Website. Retrieved on July 29, 2015.
- ^ "2015 Hugo Award Winners Announced". The Hugo Awards. August 22, 2015. Archived from the original on August 24, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
- ^ Chen, Andrea. "Out of this world: Chinese sci-fi author Liu Cixin is Asia's first writer to win Hugo award for best novel." South China Morning Post. Monday 24 August 2015. Retrieved on 27 August 2015.
- ^ "The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Published by Tor) Nominated for Best Novel in 2014". Nebula Awards. Retrieved October 27, 2022.