This is the kind of book that Science Fiction should always be like. The author gives a history of science (through the game embedded in the book) and shows science is not what most people think it is. Science and its theories are always under-determined. There is never a unique right answer to how ...
"The Three Body Problem" is a science fiction book by Cixin Liu translated from Chinese. Yes, that is correct, an award winning Science Ficiion novel from China. And it is about contact with Aliens a la SETI. That's all I needed to know. This is a trilogy and the first book is very good. The...
Chinese science-fiction? Don’t mind if I do. Chapter 17 is called “Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emporer, and Tri-Solar Syzygy”. Hell, yeah. Basically this is one cracking idea after another – and “Radar Peak” is one of those really exciting fictional settings, like “Crab Key” - all wri...
"Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning...
One of my favorite ways of choosing a book by an unfamiliar author to read is by the buzz from sf blogs and discussion forums. Not any old buzz mind you, I don’t want to end up reading “50 Shades” or some equally unreadable blockbusters, I only take notice of the excitement among SF/F reading commun...
When this book started by shooting a woman, then hanging her body from a pike to use for target practice, freeze frame on her head shattering, I was pretty sure we'd get along. Surprisingly, while most of this book isn't gore, it was right up my alley. At least, for the first three quarters. Near ...
A secret project born during China's Cultural Revolution, and some of the brightest minds of the generation locked inside, by choice or for lack of any other option, watching the skies. Today echos of actions taken still ring, shaking the foundations of belief for the worlds' greatest physicists as...
The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple award winning phenomenon from China'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 esta...
This is for the Audiobook version.A 3 star listen that could have been 4 or 5 star.The Three Body Problem is the first part of a trilogy in which an alien planet, Trisolaris, intercepts a radio transmission from China. Trisolaris orbits 3 stars and due to the gravitational tug of war between those 3...
When it comes to finding new fiction to read, I look through a lot of resources. I look at what friends are reading and recommending, the io9 monthly release posts, various lists I come across on the Internet, etc. The Three-Body Problem showed up in almost all of those places, so it moved up on m...
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