First contact is the light at the end of the story's tunnel: read the back of the book and you know it's coming, but how it happens is something you discover by reading.
But unusually for such a hard sci-fi novel, The Three-Body Problem quickly escaped the orbit of speculative fiction circles and received glowing write-ups in mainstream press outlets like The New York Times, NPR, and, famously, a shoutout from President Barack Obama.
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