Description: "Stunning concepts and a contemplative tone that provides vital insight into the formative years of one of the genre's masters. In Liu's hands, 'the children are our future' becomes far more than a cozy clich; it's a springboard for the kind of agile and relevant thought experiment that science fiction, at its best, manifests."--NPR "This audacious and ultimately optimistic early work will give Liu's English-reading fans a glimpse at his evolution as a writer and give any speculative fiction reader food for deep thought."-- Shelf Awareness Praise for the Three-Body trilogy "Wildly imaginative."--President Barack Obama " The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder."-- The Wall Street Journal "A breakthrough book . . . A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology."--George R. R. Martin "Tackles politics, philosophy, and virtual reality in a story that moves at a thriller's pace."-- The Washington Post "Evokes the thrill of exploration and the beauty of scale."-- The New Yorker "Stunning, elegant . . . A science fiction epic of the most profound kind."--NPR

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