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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The universe starts counting down inside a scientist’s eyes. To learn why, he must enter a world with three suns—and follow a signal humanity may regret sending.
“What if humanity learned that another civilization was already on its way to Earth?”
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Start with the idea that will not leave you alone
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Death’s End
Death’s End
Cixin Liu
Across centuries of borrowed time, one aerospace engineer inherits decisions that ask whether compassion can protect a civilization—or expose it.
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Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A scientist wakes alone on a starship with two dead crewmates, no memory, and one impossible assignment: learn why a distant star is surviving the same disaster killing the Sun.
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The Arrows of Time
The Arrows of Time
Greg Egan
As the Peerless finally turns for home, Agata and Ramiro must decide whether news from their own future can protect free choice—or quietly abolish it.
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The Clockwork Rocket
The Clockwork Rocket
Greg Egan
When lethal meteors cross her world's history, physicist Yalda must turn a mountain into a rocket—and entrust salvation to generations she will never meet.
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The Three-Body Problem
Diplomats, scientists, and careful skeptics reading humanity’s first answer to an approaching civilization.