1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's
Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event
will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later
after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists Beijing police ask nanotech engineer
Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of international scientists. During the course of his
investigation Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that immerses him in a virtual
world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable 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 humanity's place in the cosmos and the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces.
