The Three-Body Problem
by:
Ken Liu (author)
Cixin Liu (author)
With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speakingreaders to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon fromChina’s most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural...
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With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speakingreaders to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon fromChina’s most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish cont
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00IQO403K
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: 三体 - Three Body (#1)
Loved it. Fantastic, mind-blowing ideas and many-layered cultural setting, social systems, and characters. My only complaints are 1) the dialogue comes off as stiff and overly-constructed (which I assume I can attribute to the difficulty of translating from Chinese), and 2) the exposition and plot a...
The look of incredulous disgust on their face when I admitted I hadn't read 'Three-Body Problem'. It was too much to bear, so at my earliest convenience I picked up a copy and devoured it. This is incredible! I know I've been saying a lot of great, hyperbolic things about a lot of the sf I've been r...
I have been getting yelled at for a while to read "The Three-Body Problem." I really wish that I had left it alone. I had a hard time even getting immersed in the book cause not a lot of it made sense to me and we kept changing POVs. I know about the Cultural Revolution in China (East Asia was my m...
I rated this as 5 rather than 4 stars because I enjoyed the Chinese perspective.
What would you do if the laws of physics, of the universe, turned out not to be laws at all? Imagine you're a scientist confronted with this realization. This is one of the more disturbing realities that characters must contend with in The Three-Body Problem, the first of a trilogy by Chinese author...
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