Experience Cixin Liu’s award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three Body Problem.
A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens―and succeeds.
Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth.
News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost. 
The Three Body Problem begins a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision.
“The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.” ―The Wall Street Journal
 The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End
Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series, 1)

Literature & Fiction

LIU, Cixin

World Literature

Tor Books

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, 1)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Tor Science Fiction

Time is running out for humanity in The Dark Forest, the stunning sequel to Cixin Liu’s award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three-Body Problem. 
Earth is still reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion. 
The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. 
This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four people enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. 
Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
 The Dark Forest continues Cixin Liu’s ground-breaking saga of incredible scope and vision.
“The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.” ―The Wall Street Journal
 “A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller.” ―NPR 
 The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End
Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series, 2)

Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold…
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
Death’s End is the New York Times bestselling conclusion to Cixin Liu’s tour-de-force series that began with The Three-Body Problem. 
“The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.” ―The Wall Street Journal
 “A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller.” ―NPR 
 The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End
 Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)

"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." ―President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End
Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

The Three-Body Problem

The New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's bestselling and beloved science fiction writer.
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to read China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award.
 Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death's End. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
 Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End
 Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. 
In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End
Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.
When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. 
The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen’s quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge.
"Wildly imaginative."―Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy
Tor books by Cixin Liu
The Remembrance of Earth's Past #1 The Three-Body Problem #2 The Dark Forest #3 Death's End

Ball Lightning

One of the foundational novels by beloved science fiction author Cixin Liu, Ball Lightning is a stunning tale of physics, ethics, and one man’s journey for answers that may come at too high a cost. 
When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. 
The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen’s quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge.

A View from the Stars

Essays & Correspondence

Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book

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The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series, 1)

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, 1)

The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series, 2)

Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)

The Three-Body Problem

Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3)

The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series, 2)

Ball Lightning

Ball Lightning

A View from the Stars