The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem (《三体》) is a science fiction novel by Liu Cixin, one of only three Chinese-language works to have won the Hugo Award—alongside Hao Jingfang's *Folding Beijing* and Hai Ya's *The Space-Time Painter* [^C?]. In Chinese tech discourse, it has become something of a cultural touchstone: Monolith砺思资本 borrowed its "two-dimensional foil" (二向箔) concept to describe how AI-native companies like Moonshot AI are flattening traditional organizational hierarchies , and ZhenFund's Yusen Dai included it in his 2026 Lunar New Year reading list, noting that Liu's "water droplet" episode clearly echoes an earlier classic . The name has also been applied to China's first space-based intelligent computing constellation, the "Three-Body Computing Constellation" (三体计算星座), for which ZhenFund portfolio company Helium Starlink serves as exclusive terminal payload provider .