3 Body Problem: where to start reading
Adapts Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
The first season is built mainly on the first novel, so read that. But be aware the show pulls some ideas and characters forward from the second and third books and moves much of the setting to Britain, so a few things you saw belong to later volumes.
Start reading at The Three-Body Problem (the first novel)- 1The Three-Body Problem2014
- 2The Dark Forest2015
- 3Death's End2016
Netflix's series draws its first season mainly from the first novel, The Three-Body Problem, but pulls characters and plot elements forward from the later two books (The Dark Forest and Death's End) and relocates much of the story from China to the United Kingdom with new characters. The showrunners expect three or four seasons to cover the whole trilogy.
Spoiler-safe ratings are coming. You will rate and read reviews only up to your place in the story, never a hint of what is ahead.
