If the way Wang Miao and Shi Qiang peel back the science—like the particle-accelerator anomalies caused by the sophons—and the ethical shock of Ye Wenjie’s signal from Red Coast grabbed you, you’ll love how Blindsight pushes first contact even further. A linguist-turned-synthesist, Siri Keeton, joins the starship Theseus to confront an inscrutable entity at the edge of the solar system. The crew’s attempt to communicate feels like the Three Body game’s escalating puzzles: each hypothesis breaks under the weight of a mind that doesn’t think like us. It’s as hard-SF and philosophically disquieting as discovering the Trisolarans’ true capabilities.

If the evolving logic of the Three Body game—tracking chaotic eras and stable periods to decode the Trisolaran world—fascinated you, Children of Time offers a full novel of that thrill. Across millennia, uplifted spiders develop language, technology, and social structures in response to their planet’s pressures, much like the Trisolarans adapting to their capricious suns. Watching Portia and her descendants innovate feels like seeing the ‘three-body’ problem solved by an alien society from the inside out.

If you enjoyed the investigative spine of The Three-Body Problem—Wang Miao tracing the ‘Frontiers of Science’ suicides, the eerie photo countdown, and Shi Qiang’s dogged, methodical probing—The Andromeda Strain is that same clinical urgency. A Wildfire team races to identify, model, and contain an extraterrestrial microbe inside a multi-level lab, with each experiment narrowing the mystery the way the VR ‘Three Body’ levels reveal hidden rules. It’s procedural tension powered by hypotheses and data.

If the revelations that spiral out from Red Coast Base and the jaw-dropping scope of sophon engineering gave you chills, Rendezvous with Rama channels that same sense of cosmic awe. Commander Norton’s crew ventures into a silent, cylindrical starship whose ecosystems and architectures demand the same careful inference you used in the Three Body game. It’s that Clarke-ian wonder—standing before something built by minds far beyond ours—and letting the mystery widen your horizon.

If Ye Wenjie’s decision at Red Coast and the series’ stark questions about survival and communication kept you pondering long after the last page, Solaris is your next meditation. Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a station orbiting an alien ocean that manifests the crew’s memories—an encounter as disconcerting as realizing the Trisolarans have been inside humanity’s experiments all along. It’s a philosophical autopsy of contact: what we learn about them versus what we reveal about ourselves.