Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military prject sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens—and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of descruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Now, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
Genres
- Hugo Award Winner
- award:hugo_award=2015
- award:hugo_award=novel
- Human-alien encounters
- Imaginary wars and battles
- Fiction
- Chinese fiction
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General
- Science fiction
- General
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2020-09-27
- New York Times bestseller
- Encuentros humanos con extraterrestres
- Guerras imaginarias
- Ciencia-ficción
- Ficcion
- Fiction, science fiction, alien contact
- china
- fantasy
- Translations into English
- History
- Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) fast (OCoLC)fst01352662
- Chinese Science fiction
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