Brief introduction of three-body content

Three-body is a series of novels written by Liu, which consists of Three-body, Three-body Ⅱ Dark Forest and Three-body Ⅲ Eternal Death. The work tells about the information exchange between human civilization and three-body civilization on the earth, the life-and-death struggle and the rise and fall of the two civilizations in the universe. His first novel was translated by Liu Yukun and won the Best Novel Award in the 73rd Hugo Award.

Three-body is about a group of aliens. Their home planet has three suns. For some reason, this three-body system is unstable and will easily collapse, so they are going to change places to live. Three-body is preparing for interstellar migration, but the universe is so big, it is dark everywhere, and I don't know where to migrate, so three-body got thousands of space stations to monitor signals and see if there is any connection.

The Creation Background of Three-body

Liu's childhood was spent in the late 1970s, and his boyhood coincided with the early 1980s. At that time, the whole people advocated science and technology, which was a glorious period of science fiction literature in China. Liu is also obsessed with science fiction. After entering the university, he turned his dream of being a scientist into an engineer who can publish some sci-fi works because it is difficult for him to be admitted to graduate school.

In an interview with King of Science Fiction in March 2006, Liu revealed a short-term writing plan for a long trilogy series, describing a special course of human beings from birth to 500 years later, and completed the first one. In May, the first three-body series tentatively named "The Past of the Earth" began to be serialized in the science fiction world.

The serialized content has been abridged, which was written by the author for more than a year and published in 2008. The second book "Dark Forest" was also published in 2008, and the third book "Immortality" was published in 2065 438+0065438+ 10.