At a time when China was experiencing the consequences of a brutal "cultural revolution", signals were sent into space during a secret military project to establish contact with alien intelligence. One of the signals was picked up by a civilization on the verge of destruction, and now the aliens are preparing to invade Earth. After learning about this, people are divided into those who are ready to give our vicious world under the control of a higher mind, and those who will fight to the last against this invasion. The brilliant science fiction novel "the Task of three bodies" by the most popular Chinese writer Liu Qixin has gained wide international recognition and became the first translated book nominated for the most prestigious literary awards in the field of fiction: "Hugo", "Nebyulu", "Locus", "Prometheus" and others.