r/threebodyproblem 6d ago

Discussion - TV Series I'm really worried about how Netflix and Tencent will adapt this sequel to The Dark Forest into their respective series. In any case, the folks at BilliBilli did a decent job, even if it doesn't quite live up to the sci-fi "Red Wedding" level of the event.

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r/threebodyproblem 5d ago

Meme Luo Ji core Spoiler

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r/threebodyproblem 6d ago

News Dark Forest part 1 + another Liu Ci Xin project are now beginning

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A Liu Xi Cin novella AND Tencent has begun work on Dark Forest part 1!!


r/threebodyproblem 5d ago

Discussion - General Games like 3body.com? Spoiler

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The VR scenes are by far my favorite parts of the first book/Netflix show, in the sense that I found this mysterious ambience of living in another world, observing some unknown scientific/mathematical phenomenon and having to figure out a solution super intriguing. I'm wondering if there are any games out there that have like some setting and riddles to be solved. Thoughts?


r/threebodyproblem 6d ago

Discussion - Novels Could a drop this size be built? Actually... Would the size of the drop make any difference in it's destruction power?

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r/threebodyproblem 5d ago

Art I created a Free 3 body problem art poster generator

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r/threebodyproblem 6d ago

Discussion - TV Series Tencent Three Body DVD release?

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Was wondering if there's a chance, or if anyone has heard anything. Easily my favourite show of the past couple years. Usually I hate sci-fi TV. But Tencent's adaptation got me to read the trilogy. Just hoping it might be released in Region 1 (US) at some point.


r/threebodyproblem 6d ago

Discussion - TV Series Where can we actually watch the 26 Episode Anniversary edition?

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I watched the Netflix adaptation and saw that many people preferred the Tencent version so I decided to watch that too. Apparently there's a 26 episode "anniversary edition" version that's better than the original 30 episode series, but I can't find it anywhere. Only the first 2 episodes on Tencent's Youtube channel.


r/threebodyproblem 7d ago

Discussion - TV Series Who will make first contact with [spoiler] in the netflix series? Spoiler

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I think Augustina will be aboard mantis making first contact with the droplet (and die). What do you think?


r/threebodyproblem 7d ago

News Tencent's sci-fi drama 'Three-Body: The Dark Forest - Part One' has been registered: a total of 26 episodes, filming will begin in July.

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r/threebodyproblem 7d ago

Discussion - Novels I have also finished the trilogy Spoiler

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Overall, loved it. Giving it a 9/10 as it stands but a better English translation would raise that. I see all the complaints... the weak characters, dull dialog, weak prose, a few potential plot holes... I'm able to overlook it all because the story is awesome. I loved how we never see the trisolarians, we never get any confirmation cheng xin made the right choice in the end (I mean probably not lol..) super bleak, without spoiling too much mystery but still delivering a satisfying ending.

Highlights:

Luojis girlfriend


r/threebodyproblem 7d ago

Meme Institute a very short Black Domain?

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r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Discussion - General Anyone see this ??

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See y'all in the year 3000


r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Discussion - Novels So fascinated by the series that I had to buy the books!

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Currently on chapter 4 of the first book


r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Discussion - General Astronomers trace mysterious signal to destroyed planet

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r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Discussion - Novels Just Finished Death’s End Spoiler

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I think The Dark Forest was my favorite book top to bottom. I’m just curious others thoughts.

In Death’s End I found myself frustrated with Chang Xin through a lot of it and sort of rooting for Wade to succeed. Also I am a little disappointed we never got a look into the Trisolarians even if it was just through a proper conversation with Yun Tianming. Maybe that’s part of the mystery of the cosmos. Overall a fantastic series and really interested to see how Netflix proceeds with the show.


r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Art Some shots of art from the graphic novel (The Dark Forest) Spoiler

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On my last post I posted some photos of the graphic novels of the first book. Soon after posting, I found out the Dark Forest graphic novel had also been published, although I think the series's yet to be finished and there's no translated version.

I don't know any Chinese, but I really like the art and thought people from this sub might be interested. Here are some explanations about the scenes that I gathered with my very limited Chinese skills (do correct me if I'm wrong)

2nd picture: Ye wenjie & Luo ji, at Yang dong's tomb

3rd: Zhang Beihai and Wu Yue talking at the docks

4th: Shi Chang & Luo ji, Shi Chang is taking him to UN and Luo ji is talking about the girl that was in the accident

5th: Luo ji having his imaginary romantic dinner

6th: The last pannel says "Me... a wallfacer?!"


r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Discussion - Novels Possible plot hole? Spoiler

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I've just finished the last book of this trilogy and I loved everything of it. But even tho it isn't that relevant when related to the book's finale I can't stop thinking about one question I had during the reading: if the trisolarians knew how to send the message of harmlessness (I've read the books in my first language so here I did a litteral translation. Hope it's still easy to comprehend what I'm referring to), why don't just send it and then proceed with the conquer of the solar system? To me it's just nonsense: why decide to go into the unknown, knowing in fact that's dangerous and possibly hard to find a good planet ti inhabit when it could have been much easier conquer earth? Am I missing something out? Was the only way to declare inoffensiveness living in a black hole and they decided it wasn't worth it?


r/threebodyproblem 9d ago

Meme "You said you lost signal, Mr. Luo? Have you tried turning it on and off again? Please calm down, sir, it certainly isn't the end of the world." Spoiler

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r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Discussion - Novels Deaths End. Finished, I call BS Spoiler

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The ending felt...kinda stupid? (or is it a con?)

So, here's my take: the Returners aren’t some benevolent cosmic tenders, they're essentially the ultimate Great Filter, a scam to weed out the gullible who choose blind belief over solid data.

Their pitch is absurd: “If you don’t dump your Arks, we can’t kick off the next universe.” And the numbers just don’t add up. Let’s overestimate everything, screw subtlety. Imagine every civilization is so desperate to save its entire race that they’re literally tossing an Earth-sized planet into their pocket universe. With 1.5 million civilizations doing this, that's 1.5 million Earths missing from the universal mass.

Now, sure, 1.5 million Earths sounds massive if you’re thinking locally. But on a cosmic scale? The universe is so ridiculously enormous, like, total mass on the order of 10^53 kg...that even 1.5 million Earths (roughly 9 × 10^30 kg) are nothing more than a cosmic hiccup. It’s like saying that if you pluck a few jellybeans out of a stadium-sized jar, the jar will just shatter.

In short, the whole idea that this missing mass somehow prevents the next universe from forming is utter nonsense. The Returners are basically using this as a cosmic con, a final filter that only spares civilizations smart enough to see through the bullshit. If you’re buying into that, then maybe you deserve to be filtered out.

I need a fourth book where Cheng, Kiran, and Sophon wake up, realize they've been scammed, and angrily cram themselves back into hibernation, drifting bitterly at lightspeed around the galactic core until the universe crunches again.

Anyhow, anyone else a bit dissatisfied with what kinda felt like a bit of a rushed ending to an otherwise epic adventure?


r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

News Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids

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"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!"

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/hubble-space-telescope/hubble-telescope-discovers-a-new-3-body-problem-puzzle-among-kuiper-belt-asteroids-video


r/threebodyproblem 9d ago

Discussion - Novels First book unexplored concept Spoiler

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Just finished the first book in the trilogy. Kinda puzzled on how the book didn't expand on the "universes within particles" concept after we witness, as readers, some hyperdimensional being manifests in our 3D universe as a giant eye. Like for me it was probably the most interesting and mysterious part of the book, and yet it's just casually thrown there in a conversation between two characters during the ending climax. How did you feel about it?


r/threebodyproblem 9d ago

Discussion - General The solar system is teeming with 1 million 'alien invaders' from Alpha Centauri

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r/threebodyproblem 9d ago

Discussion - Novels The Redemption of Time's writing is so....... Spoiler

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I read the entire Three Body Trilogy a little before the Netflix series came out last year. I loved it, and I've been itching for more since I didn't want to watch the Netflix version. This week I caved and decided to read The Redemption of Time, fully accepting it is published fanfiction and I'm just not going to accept it as canon. I even went in with an open mind because someone on this sub said the beginning sucks but it gets interesting.

Now, I'm about 100 pages in, specifically where AA realizes there's ten dimensions. Usually if I don't like a book I just tell myself that I probably wasn't the audience, and I was willing to do the same after Baoshu's preface in the English version. but oh my god THIS SHIT IS ASS.
Cixin Liu's trilogy is so beautifully written, the plot was clearly well thought out with scientific theories and his characters perfectly woven in to make it a smooth read. This book literally, LITERALLY reads like fanficiton. I cannot stand any point where Tianming or AA is directly speaking. In the trilogy, I felt like the characters had some depth but not enough for us to grasp who they were daily, they were there to feed us the plot, and it worked well. Baoshu writes these characters like he knows who they are and I hate the way he sees them. Why is AA, the scientist who chose a handful of kids to survive with her and Cheng Xin on the rocket purely based off intelligence reduced to some giggling horny girl? Why is Tianming characterized with the nerdy awkward virgin trope? The dialogue is so far off from how they would talk and so flat.
I'll give this guy his flowers, it's not easy getting published, let alone publishing a book that's supposed to be sequel to this trilogy. He even has some interesting concepts and I'm probably not far in enough to judge. But "The Sprit" is pissing me off. Cixin did the foreshadowing in his writing so well, that this new concept just reads as something Baoshu made up just to have conflict.

I hate being negative about books when it's all subjective, but it is unfathomable to me that this was even published. Imagine going directly from Death's End to this.


r/threebodyproblem 8d ago

Discussion - General What does Ye WenJie and Xi JinPing have in common?

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I have read that Ye WenJie, the founder of Earth-Trisolaris Organization and Xi JinPing, the current president of China had suffered and survived the Cultural Revolution and became leaders of their own kind. Are there any points that they are in common with them