Although it starts a little slow with the narrative moving all over the place, once Wang starts playing the Three-Body Problem VR game it takes off on a wild ride. You can’t go into the plot without spoilers, but I can say that it all revolves some very advanced scientific concepts (none of which I was able to understand much of so I don’t know what was real and what was fiction). It’s an intellectual mystery with intense political stakes that make this story a race against time. It feels almost like if Umberto Eco wrote a Sci-Fi book. I’m excited to both continue the series and to see the television adaptation. Highly recommended.