For all fans of the bestselling “The Three-Body Problem” and the cycle “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”!
Winner of the Nebula Prize—China’s main award in science fiction.
Not so distant future. A controlled thermonuclear synthesis has given humanity cheap energy, and a breakthrough in genetics makes it possible to create new, improved people. In this calm world, something monstrous happens: two scientific centers in China and Europe disappear without a trace—like they were erased from the face of the Earth. And they were not blown up; they simply vanished. During the investigation, government agents realize that nothing like this has ever happened to them before, and the enemy surpasses them both intellectually and technologically. Then they find out that an incredible discovery somehow relates to the case: the speed of light is no longer constant—it has started increasing.
A few years earlier, the astronomer Wang Haicheng (FAST telescope) caught several unusual signals. Two of them indicate the existence in the universe of two Dyson clouds—artificial spheres enveloping entire star systems. And a third one carries encoded information. And it will irreversibly change not only Wang Haicheng’s fate, but that of the entire…