emperor of China, to deploy his vast army in such a way as to mimic the circuitry of a modern computer, each soldier holding aloft a black or white flag and so, in aggregate, building millions of the logic gates that comprise a motherboard. In a memorable scene, the 20 th century mathematician John von Neumann convinces Qin Shi Huang, the 3 rd century B.C. In the first book, he wends into his story a surreal immersive online game called “Three-Body.” It’s full of jarring anachronisms, as figures from world history grapple with the gyrating geometry of the Trisolaran system: three suns orbiting a single planet, the gravity of each pulling the others into chaotic orbits. Liu’s literary strength is the marriage of his vaulting imagination to startling set-piece narration.
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