The Three Body Problem

I’m very excited for the upcoming The Three Body Problem series! I’ve read and thoroughly enjoyed the book trilogy, and it looks like they are sticking decently close to the source material. This must be a challenging story to put on screen!

The book’s cover text:

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.

You can watch the teaser trailer for the series on YouTube:

The books form a trilogy, so the series will have plenty of material to work with! My favorite book was the second, titled The Dark Forest, with a host of exciting new ideas, including a to me previously unknown theoretical explanation for the Fermi Paradox.

As an aside, this short video gives a brief explanation on the title-giving N-body Problem: that is, we can model the behaviour of a gravitational system with 2 objects, but we are incapable of doing so for 3 or more objects. That’s kind of a problem, especially if you happen to live in a solar system with, let’s say, 3 stars… :)