



Wang agrees to join the group and investigate and soon must confront events that seem to defy the laws of physics. Of more immediate concern is a series of inexplicable deaths, all prominent scientists, including the suicide of Yang Dong, the physicist daughter of Ye Wenjie the scientists were involved with the shadowy group Frontiers of Science. Eventually, Ye comes to work at Red Coast as a lowly technician, but what really goes on there? Weapons research, certainly, but is it also listening for signals from space-maybe even signaling in return? Another thread picks up the story 40 years later, when nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao and thuggish but perceptive policeman Shi Qiang, summoned by a top-secret international (!) military commission, learn of a war so secret and mysterious that the military officers will give no details. forced labor) camp not far from an imposing, top secret military installation called Red Coast Base. She ends up in a remote re-education (i.e. In 1967, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, young physicist Ye Wenjie helplessly watches as fanatical Red Guards beat her father to death. OL17267881W Page_number_confidence 91.91 Pages 410 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20191106114926 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1074 Scandate 20191106001433 Scanner Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Tts_version 3.Strange and fascinating alien-contact yarn, the first of a trilogy from China’s most celebrated science-fiction author. OL25840917M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:14:45 Associated-names Liu, Ken, 1976- translator Book_price 2215 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1675801 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Est_book_price 1448 Est_scan_price 5100 External-identifier
