Most of the characters in the story are scientists, but one of the most interesting characters is a police investigator who spurs Miao to investigate. Miao ends up playing an immersive video game where he must solve puzzles on a strangely changing world, unlocking hints to what is really going on. An unknown force seems to be interfering in science and working against progress all around the world. The narrative follows a couple of characters, but the central protagonist is Wang Miao, a nanotech scientist. So while the characters in the book are fictional, the historical setting for parts of the story is not. This event has been likened to the Holocaust in terms of the lives lost and the discrimination that occurred at that time. If you’ve never learned that part of history, it is worth looking into and doing some reading. I also learned about the Chinese Cultural Revolution by reading this book. It encourages me to look things up and to learn more about the world. I had never heard of this, and this is one reason why I like to read hard science fiction. This book gets its name from a famous physics problem that tries to model the motion of three celestial bodies.
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