The three-body problem
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BookPublication details: London Head of Zeus 2017Description: vi, 434 pISBN: 9781784971571Subject(s): Human - alien encounters | Imaginary wars and battles - China | Extraterrestrial beings | Chinese fiction | Life on other planets | Cultural Revolution - China (1966-1976) | Scientists - ChinaDDC classification: 895.1352 Summary: 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 unpredicatable interaction of its three suns.
This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists’ deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.
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| Item type | Current library | Item location | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | Vikram Sarabhai Library | Rack 44-A / Slot 2481 (3rd Floor, East Wing) | Fiction | General Stacks | 895.1352 L4T4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 28/08/2025 | 195679 |
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 unpredicatable interaction of its three suns.
This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists’ deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.
http://speakingtigerbooks.com/shop/head-of-zeus/the-three-body-problem/
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