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The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003).
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Liu Cixin was born in Beijing in June 1963. Before beginning his career as an author, he was a computer engineer working at a power plant in Shanxi province. In 1989, he wrote Supernova Era and China 2185, but neither book was published at that time. His first published short story, Whalesong, was published in Science Fiction World in June 1999. Th...
During the Cultural Revolution, Ye Wenjie, an astrophysics graduate from Tsinghua University, sees her father get beaten to death during a struggle session by Red Guards from Tsinghua High School. Ye is branded a traitor and is forced to join a labor brigade in Inner Mongolia, and is later sentenced to prison, where she is recruited by Yang Weining...
In 2012, Chinese-American science-fiction author Ken Liu and translator Joel Martinsen were commissioned by the China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation (CEPIEC) to produce an English translation of The Three-Body Problem, with Liu translating the first and last volumes, and Martinsen translating the second. In 2013, it was anno...
Ye family
Ye Zhetai (叶哲泰) 1. Physicist and professor at Tsinghua University. He is killed at a struggle session during the Cultural Revolution. Shao Lin (绍琳) 1. Physicist and wife of Ye Zhetai. She is also one of his accusers at the struggle session that ended his life. Ye Wenjie (叶文洁) 1. Astrophysicist and daughter of Ye Zhetai. She is the first person to establish contact with the Trisolarans while working at Red Coast Base. She marries Yang Weining and gives birth to a daughter, Yang Dong. She later...
Red Coast Base
Lei Zhicheng (雷志成) 1. Political commissar at Red Coast Base. He recruited Ye Wenjie and oversaw her work. She later kills him to keep the secret of the interstellar transmissions. Yang Weining (杨卫宁) 1. Chief engineer at Red Coast Base, once a student of Ye Zhetai, later Ye Wenjie's husband and murdered by her as well.
Present-day
Wang Miao (汪淼) 1. Nanomaterials researcher and academician from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is tasked with investigating the ETO as well as the recent spate of suicides among well-known scientists. Wang Miao becomes immersed in the virtual realitygame "Three Body", through which he learns about Trisolaris. Yang Dong (杨冬) 1. String theoristand daughter of Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining. She commits suicide shortly before the present day events. Ding Yi (丁仪) 1. Theoretical physicist and Yan...
In Liu's early childhood, when he was three years old his family moved from the Beijing Coal Design Institute to Yangquan in Shanxi, due to his father changing jobs. He also spent a part of his childhood in the countryside around ancestral hometown of Luoshan, Henan. On 25 April 1970, Dong Fang Hong 1—China's first satellite—was launched. Liu remem...
The book structure has been influenced by self-censorship. The initial draft's opening scenes were seen as "too politically charged" by the publisher, and moved deeper into the book, to avoid attracting criticism by Chinese government censors. Several interpretations of the novels and related film adaptations were presented by Ross Douthat of The N...
In December 2019, The New York Times cited The Three-Body Problem as having helped to popularize Chinese science fiction internationally, crediting the quality of Ken Liu's English translation, as well as endorsements of the book by George R. R. Martin, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and former U.S. president Barack Obama. George R. R. Martin wr...
Astronomer Ye Wenjie is brought to the military's top-secret Red Coast Project after suffering an attack during the Cultural Revolution. She achieves a significant advancement in the search for extraterrestrial civilization when she uses the Sun as an amplifier to send the first sounds of Earth's civilization into space. Meanwhile, the planet Triso...
Film
1. The Three-Body Problem is a postponed Chinese science fiction 3D film directed by Fanfan Zhang and starring Feng Shaofeng and Zhang Jingchu. Filming began, but it was never completed or released.
Comics
1. A serialized digital comic adaptation has been published by Tencent Comicssince 2019.
Audio
1. The audiobook adaptation of the Three Body Problem was produced by Macmillan in 2014 and narrated by Luke Daniels. It was released again in 2023 and narrated by Rosalind Chao, who starred in Netflix's TV adaptation. 2. The chapters of the Three Body Problem were featured in the serialized podcast Stories From Among the Starsproduced by Tor Books and Macmillan in July 2021. 3. All 3 books of the Three-Body Problem have been adapted into a 100-episode Mandarinradio drama on Ximalaya.
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