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Signed limited editions of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, each volume number 198 of 250 copies signed by author and translator, also dated by them in the first work, as issued. The first and third instalments were translated by Liu Ken and the second by Joel Martinsen. These are the first British editions of the inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem (2024). Liu Cixin has sold more copies than all other modern Chinese authors of science fiction combined. The Three-Body Problem was the first work in translation to win the Hugo award, and Death's End received the Locus award. The trilogy "is a deeply inventive exercise in world-building, in which a secret Mao-era project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence makes disastrous first contact with a totalitarian government orbiting Alpha Centauri" (SFE). In his postscript written for the English translation, Liu notes he was inspired at the age of seven upon observing the 1970 launch of China's first satellite, known in the West as China 1. The series was published in Chinese in the years 2008 and 2010, following the serialization of The Three-Body Problem in Kehuan shijie (Science Fiction World) in 2006. These limited British editions are slightly preceded by the trade hardbacks published in America by Tor. Three works, octavo. Original blue, dark red, and red boards, spines lettered in silver, gilt, and white. With dust jackets. Decorative title and chapter pages. Negligible bump to spine ends of first work: a fine set in fine, unclipped jackets.

The Three-Body Problem is the first novel of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Chinese author Liu Cixin. The story revolves around a secret military project and an impending alien invasion. The narrative pulls together various strands of people who are affected by the discovery that Earth is not alone in the universe.