num_pages: 399
description: Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile on Earth different camps start forming planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt or to fight against the invasion.
language: English
title: The Three-Body Problem
publisher: Tor Books