The Three-Body Problem book cover featuring a large portcullis.
December 9, 2024

The Three-Body Problem

By: Liu Cixin

A novel by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu. The first book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy
  • 472 pages, Hardcover
  • First published May 1, 2006
  • First in the Remembrance of Earth's Past series

Date ranges for The Three-Body Problem

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    December 9, 2024 - December 19, 2024

    1. Start on page 1
    2. Silent Spring on page 23
    3. Red Coast 1 on page 41
    4. The Frontiers of Science on page 49
    5. A Game of Pool on page 67
    6. The Shooter and the Farmer on page 73
    7. Three Body: King Wen of Zhou and the Long Night on page 93
  2. December 20, 2024 - December 30, 2024

    1. Ye Wenjie on page 111
    2. The Universe Flickers on page 119
    3. Da Shi on page 131
    4. Three Body: Mozi and Fiery Flames on page 139
    5. Red Coast II on page 153
    6. Red Coast III on page 165
    7. Red Coast IV on page 175
    8. Three Body: Copernicus, Universal Football, and Tri-Solar Day on page 181
    9. The Three-Body Problem on page 189
    10. Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emperor, and Tri-Solar Syzygy on page 207
    11. Meet-up on page 225
  3. December 31, 2024 - January 10, 2025

    1. Three Body: Einstein, the Pendulum Monument, and the Great Rip on page 231
    2. Expedition on page 243
    3. Rebels of Earth on page 249
    4. Red Coast V on page 257
    5. Red Coast VI on page 269
    6. Rebellion on page 277
    7. The Deaths of Lei Zhicheng and Yang Weining on page 283
    8. No One Repents on page 289
    9. Evans on page 303
  4. January 11, 2025 - January 21, 2025

    1. The Second Red Coast Base on page 313
    2. The Earth-Trisolaris Movement on page 317
    3. Two Protons on page 323
    4. Operation Guzheng on page 331
    5. Trisolaris: The Listener on page 347
    6. Trisolaris: Sophon on page 357
    7. Bugs on page 385
    8. The Ruins on page 389
    9. Postscript on page 391