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The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's 3 Body Problem may have been banned in China for its opening scene depicting the brutality of the Cultural Revolution – a major character witnesses the Red Guard beat her father to death – which the government does not want out there Chinese social media has been arguing about[...]

In the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's epic Science Fiction novel, she plays the elder incarnation of Ye Wenjie, the genius astrophysicist who survived China's Cultural Revolution in her youth with a deep well of trauma that makes her the most tragic and important character in the story Ye Wenjie makes the one decision that[...]

Warning: All discussions of 3 Body Problem from here will have spoilers, for the night is dark and full of spoilers. The most controversial changes in the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's Science Fiction saga 3 Body Problem is probably the way showrunners David Benioff, D.B Weiss, and Alexander Woo changed the main characters of the book into[...]

The answers to their questions are virtually all in the books by Liu Cixin and between the lines of the parts of the TV series that are never spelled out D.B Weiss, David Benioff, and Alexander Woo are counting on the viewers to be smart instead of spoon-feeding them all the information with reams of exposition[...]

The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's 3 Body Problem is like a Cliff's Notes version of the first book in the trilogy, rushing through the bullet points to get to the big reveals and pulling in parts of the second and third books to set up the whole saga It cuts out entire characters and[...]

Warning: You should finish watching Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's 3 Body Problem before reading this because it's ALL spoilers… for the night is dark and full of spoilers Seriously We jump right into spoilers from the start to after this; there's no turning back You've been warned… Some hardcore fans of the original books of[...]

Warning: You should finish watching Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's 3 Body Problem before reading this because it's ALL spoilers… for the night is dark and full of spoilers Seriously We jump right into spoilers from the start to after this; there's no turning back You've been warned… 3 Body Problem Episode 104 of 3 Body[...]

Warning: You should finish watching Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's 3 Body Problem before reading this because it's ALL spoilers… for the night is dark and full of spoilers Seriously We jump right into spoilers from the start to after this; there's no turning back You've been warned… In 3 Body Problem, a VR game is[...]

At the Yen Press Industry Panel at Seattle's Sakura-Con, Yen Press announced that it would be releasing the North American print edition of The Three-Body Problem comic, an adaptation of Liu Cixin's award-winning novel that has sold over 3 million copies in North America The Three-Body Problem is the first installment of Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy,[...]

Warning: You should finish watching Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's 3 Body Problem before reading this because it's ALL spoilers… for the night is dark and full of spoilers Seriously We jump right into spoilers from the start to after this; there's no turning back You've been warned… 3 Body Problem (L to R) Rosalind Chao[...]

If you look up Amazon, every print edition of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End by Liu Cixin is sold out This is the hardcovers, the paperbacks, the paperback boxset, the UK editions, the UK paperback boxset, and the UK omnibus editions The Chinese versions are available, though The paperback edition of[...]

Ye Wen Jie is the most important character in 3 Body Problem, but the Netflix series shortchanges her and reduces her to a plot device.

The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's epic science fiction novel 3 Body Problem is now on Netflix, and reviews are mostly positive but mixed Turning the hard SciFi novel filled with Hard Science and sometimes obtuse storytelling can be tricky Some viewers are into it; others not so much Now video game designer and creator[...]

The Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's epic Science Fiction saga 3 Body Problem has finally premiered To say it was eagerly and nervously anticipated is an understatement For starters, the book is the Eastern equivalent of Dune, often considered impossible to adapt For another thing, China premiered its own TV adaptation a year ago with[...]

I know it's been a long, hard road to adapt Liu Cixin's epic trilogy of highly dense and difficult novels But, you know, it's kind of embarrassing that all that expensive work to bring 3 Body Problem will be defined by, well, upside-down silver underwear This could become a new drinking game Every time someone[...]

Here's a Chinese New Year (or should it be Lunar New Year since other parts of Asia celebrate it too?) surprise: the original Chinese TV series adaptation of Liu Cixin's epic Science Fiction saga The Three-Body Problem is going to stream on Peacock on February 10th, a month ahead of the Netflix adaptation All thirty[...]

Information on the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin's popular Science Fiction novel 3 Body Problem has been scarce with fans digging for every little tidbit they can grab, including breaking down every frame of the teaser trailer the streamer released back in summer Now Game of Thrones veteran Liam Cunningham has spoken about playing a[...]

Netflix has finally released a trailer for their version of  Liu Cixin's epic Chinese Science Fiction saga 3 Body Problem, with the first season premiering in January 2024 The showrunners are David Benioff and D.B Weiss, as part of their overall deal with Netflix, and Alexander Woo 3 Body Problem stars Jess Hong, Benedict Wong, Eiza González,[...]

Adapted from Liu Cixin's novella The Wandering Earth, China's first Science Fiction blockbuster franchise is set in the future where the Earth has been equipped with massive rocket engines to propel it out of the solar system to escape getting destroyed by the dying sun and find a new home in a distant galaxy where[...]

The television adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem has ended its thirty-episode run, adapting the entire novel, barring the parts the censors insisted the producers cut out of the show However, studio Tencent announced that it would be getting not only a second season adapting the second book in the trilogy, The Dark Forest,[...]

Screenwriter Tian Liang Liang, along with director Yang Lei and the producers, are obviously fans of Liu Cixin's original novel and know it inside-out, enough to pick the story apart and put it back together again with additions and expansion to the story that make it better She found the emotional connections that made the[...]

The Chinese television adaptation of Liu Cixin's epic Chinese Science Fiction novel The Three-Body Problem has completed its thirty-episode run on both broadcast television and streaming In an act of possibly masochistic insanity, we reviewed all thirty episodes and became the only outlet in the West to do that Why did we do that? Because[...]

Wang Miao sees a photo of the female scientist who researched ball lightning that's an easter egg nodding at Liu Cixin's novel before The Three-Body Problem and Iqiyi's upcoming series adaptation That puts Ball Lightning in the same universe suggesting a Li Cixin universe. "The Three-Body Problem" still, Tencent Science Grandma Ye Wen Jie is sentenced to[...]

Liu Cixin's novel is a huge deal in China, heralding the country's entry into the annals of the global Science Fiction scene and a signpost of modern China The first book in a trilogy, it reinvents the alien invasion genre from scratch, starting as a murder mystery and investigation, a commentary on a chapter in[...]

As Wang Miao and Shi Qiang witness the beginning of the campaign to invade Earth, he glimpses that Ye Wen Jie has also logged into the game to see how wrong she was to reveal Earth's location by answering. Still from "The Three-Body Problem", Tencent Now we have the finale of The Three-Body Problem coming next as[...]

His desire to discover why Yang Dong died might come from this, though Shi Qiang ribs him for having a crush, which might be true – original author Liu Cixin never really explained why Wang Miao would want to investigate her death. "The Three-Body Problem" still, Tencent But the rest of this hour belongs to Shi Qiang[...]

She's another victim of intergenerational trauma from the Cultural Revolution. "The Three-Body Problem" still, Tencent Liu Cixin's novel seemed to drop this reason for Yang Dong's suicide, sticking to the pulpy notion that physicists were committing suicide because they discovered that "Physics doesn't exist" when in real life, scientists would be more excited to test and research[...]

"Evans" is really a Welsh name, but author Liu Cixin probably picked it because it sounded so white What's interesting is that Mike Evans is not a military man or an evil capitalist but a man who hates capitalism and blames it for the destruction of the environment and other species He is, in his[...]

It would have provided a more complete portrait of what drove Ye Wen Jie to do what she did. "The Three-Body Problem" still, Tencent The Real Heart of The Three-Body Problem The Three-Body Problem may be author Liu Cixin's rumination on the Fermi Paradox, alien invasion, and Hard Science Fiction, but at the story's centre is his[...]

But anyway, it's following the order of events in Liu Cixin's book faithfully, so that's how it's going to be. "The Three-Body Problem" still, Tencent First, we get to the end of last week's cliffhanger in Science Grandma Ye Wen Jie's origin story at the Red Coast base She received a transmission from an alien civilization imploring,[...]