The Three Body Problem
When a rash of mysterious suicides sweeps through the global scientific community, a prominent nanotechnology researcher joins forces with a cynical counterterrorism detective to investigate a secret organization and unearth an impending alien invasion The overarching story unfolds across two main timelines, beginning in modern-day China where leading scientists are inexplicably taking their own lives after declaring that physics has ceased to exist. Wang Miao, an elite nanomaterials expert, is abruptly pulled into a joint military and police task force spearheaded by the crude but highly perceptive detective Shi Qiang. After Wang begins experiencing a horrifying, phantom countdown superimposed directly onto his vision, he agrees to go undercover to infiltrate a cryptic group called the Frontiers of Science. To unravel the anomalies, he logs into a hyper-advanced virtual reality game cal