The Three-Body Problem. The Three-Body Problem #1

The Three-Body Problem is the 1st book in The Three-Body Problem Series. 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.   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. The best kind of science fiction. - Kim Stanley Robinson Vivid, imaginative and rooted in cutting-edge science... Cixin stands at the top tier of speculative fiction in any language. - David Brin A Marvelous melange of awe-inspiring scientific, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters. - TLS