The show we’ve all been waiting for, the first part of an adaptation of of the Liu Cixin bestseller trilogy (I haven’t read it, sorry) is now live on Netflix, and nobody’s mentioned it today.
https://www.netflix.com/watch/81340183?trackId=255824129
Here’s the wiki about it, look it up elsewhere if that changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel))
Per the Wiki as it stands:
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. ‘Three-Body’) is a story by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin which became the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy—though the series as a whole is often referred to as The Three-Body Problem, or simply as Three-Body.[1]#cite_note-1) The series portrays a fictional past, present and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three sun-like stars orbiting one another, a representative example of the three-body problem in orbital mechanics.
The story was originally serialized) in Science Fiction World in 2006 before it was published as a standalone book in 2008.[2]#citenote-2) In 2006, it received the Galaxy Award) (Yínhé Jiǎng) for Chinese science fiction.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem(novel)#citenote-SFE-3) In 2012, it was described as one of the genre’s most successful novels of the previous two decades.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem(novel)#citenote-4) The English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014.[[5]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem(novel)#citenote-Kenliu-5) That translation was the first ever novel by an Asian writer to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel;[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem(novel)#citenote-hugo-6)[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem(novel)#citenote-7) it was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.[[8]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem(novel)#cite_note-nebula-8)
The book has been adapted into other mediums multiple times. By 2015, a Chinese film adaptation of the same name) was in production, but it was never released. A Chinese TV series, Three-Body, released in early 2023 to critical success. An English language Netflix series, 3 Body Problem), was released in March 2024.
Also really cool that my buddy Brian Simpson, who gave his first impromptu standup on my front porch somewhere around ten years ago, is Number 4 in the Top Ten Netflix watches. Funny enough, it’s called Live from the Mothership.
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