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by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
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Ceridwen
Ceridwen rated it 10 years ago
Latest review at B&N SciFi.
Interrupting Soliloquy
Interrupting Soliloquy rated it 10 years ago
The word I would use with this book, from start to finish, is "intriguing." The plot is intriguing. The premise is intriguing. The universe is intriguing. Most of the characters are intriguing. Not really Wang, considering he severely suffers from "I am main character protagonist beep boop" syndrome...
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Pretty standard Sci Fi: interesting premise and science contained within a poor narrative structure. The dialogue was mostly exposition throughout, though the book did pick up later on. Narration didn't help, a few of the character voices seemed comical and distracting. Not sure if I will read/liste...
Words, words, words
Words, words, words rated it 10 years ago
“As you know, the sophons move at close to the speed of light. The surface of the Earth is a tiny space for sophons. If sophons patrol around the accelerators on Earth at this speed, then, from the perspective of humans, it is as if they simultaneously exist in all the accelerators and can almost si...
Url Phantomhive
Url Phantomhive rated it 10 years ago
Original title: 三體 A three-body system is chaotic, unpredictable and the tiniest of perturbations can cause massive effects... When I first saw The Three-Body Problem I was immediately intrigued, not just by the synopsis but also Chinese SF. I haven't really read anything like it. It sounded int...
bookaneer
bookaneer rated it 10 years ago
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu) Ye Wenjie lost everything in the Cultural Revolution: her home, her job, her parents, her hope. She watched silently and helplessly as her father was beaten to death during a struggle session for his refusal to renounce Einstein and scien...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 56 years ago
couldn't get past the first section
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