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A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 30, 2024 - 28 comments

A bold proposition for the Staircase Project puts the group at odds. Will weighs his options. Ye returns to a familiar place. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 30, 2024 - 3 comments

With the world in a state of panic following a momentous declaration, Wade gathers the world's greatest minds to prepare a defense plan. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 29, 2024 - 7 comments

As threat levels rise, a secret mission to retrieve enemy intel ventures into dangerous territory. An ominous message reaches Earth. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 28, 2024 - 25 comments

Jin seeks justice after a death rattles the group. Investigators learn of an extremist group devoted to an otherworldly entity ahead of a major summit. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 27, 2024 - 11 comments

Obsessed with their virtual reality quest, Jin and Jack race to solve a complex riddle but advancing to the next level brings harrowing consequences. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 26, 2024 - 5 comments

Auggie's countdown jeopardizes her nanotech work. Jin becomes engrossed in an otherworldly VR game. Ye Wenjie follows through on a radical idea. [more inside]
posted by ActingTheGoat on Mar 26, 2024 - 5 comments

Unsettling events put a group of brilliant friends on edge as a mystery unravels with origins tracing back to China during the Cultural Revolution. [more inside]
posted by jeoc on Mar 23, 2024 - 18 comments

This is for discussion of the Chinese adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem (FanFare Books discussion here). It is available on Tencent/WeTV, Tencent's YouTube channel, and Viki, under the title Three-Body. Trailer. MyDramaList. A nanomaterials expert sees a mysterious countdown superimposed in his field of vision and finds himself under military investigation. To unravel the mystery, he enters the VR game "Three-Body" developed by a secret organization ETO and discovers the truth behind the deaths of dozens of scientists and a tragedy from the days of the Cultural Revolution.
posted by needled on Jan 17, 2023 - 16 comments

Death's End is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the third & final novel in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, following the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem and its sequel, The Dark Forest. It was a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist and winner of 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
posted by LizBoBiz on Jun 22, 2020 - 5 comments

The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. Translated into English by Ken Liu and published in 2014, this novel won the Hugo for Best Novel in 2015.
posted by infinitewindow on Feb 7, 2017 - 27 comments