In 2014’s “The Three-Body Problem,” Liu establishes an alternate history in which Mao’s China, concerned about other powers monopolizing communications with aliens, builds Red Coast Base, a station designed to broadcast into space and listen for responses.

I tried reading the book, but I found myself struggling to finish it. Perhaps I am just not as into Science Fiction as I was growing up reading Robert A. Heinlein, Orson Scott Card, Ray Bradbury, .......