Santai (The Three-Body Problem) 1

[Machine Translation] Ye Wenjie (Ye Wenjie) is an elite Chinese scientist who despairs of humanity after her physicist father was slaughtered during the Cultural Revolution. One day, she is recruited by a mysterious military base equipped with a giant parabolic antenna. There, a top-secret project that may affect the fate of mankind is underway. Several decades later. Wang Miao, a researcher of nanotechnology materials, is summoned to a conference where he learns that world-class scientists are committing suicide one after another. Wang Miao is assigned to infiltrate the "Science Frontier," an academic organization that is behind the suicides, when the "Ghost Countdown," an unbelievable scientific phenomenon, strikes him. And what is the surprising truth about "Three Bodies," a VR game set on an alien planet with three suns, into which Wang-Mori enters? The "Three Bodies" trilogy, which began with this book, has sold a total of 21 million copies in Japan and over 1 million copies in English translation. It was the first book to be translated into Chinese and the first Asian work to win the Hugo Award for Best Long Story.

物理学者の父を文化大革命で惨殺され、人類に絶望した中国人エリート科学者・葉文潔(イエ・ウェンジエ)。失意の日々を過ごす彼女は、ある日、巨大パラボラアンテナを備える謎めいた軍事基地にスカウトされる。そこでは、人類の運命を左右するかもしれないプロジェクトが、極秘裏に進行していた。数十年後。ナノテク素材の研究者・汪森(ワン・ミャオ)は、ある会議に招集され、世界的な科学者が次々に自殺している事実を告げられる。その陰に見え隠れする学術団体“科学フロンティア”への潜入を引き受けた彼を、科学的にありえない怪現象“ゴースト・カウントダウン”が襲う。そして汪森が入り込む、三つの太陽を持つ異星を舞台にしたVRゲーム『三体』の驚くべき真実とは?本書に始まる“三体”三部作は、本国版が合計2100万部、英訳版が100万部以上の売上を記録。翻訳書として、またアジア圏の作品として初のヒューゴー賞長篇部門に輝いた、現代中国最大のヒット作。