![]() ![]() ![]() From witnessing her father’s death at the hands of anti-intellectual students to persecution for reading environmentalist literature, Ye Wenjie’s dissatisfaction with the human race is just the first step in a series of mysteries that slowly unveil the alien Trisolaran civilization.Īs a narrative, The Three-Body Problem hops between a Crichton-esque technothriller and larger, more speculative and far more alien work. The Three-Body Problem opens with a battle between Red Guard factions followed by the horrific public spectacle of a “struggle session,” wherein public intellectuals are bullied in to recanting "reactionary" ideas like quantum mechanics and the Big Bang theory. UPDATE: The Three-Body Problem just won Best Novel at the 2015 Hugo Awards! 'The Three-Body Problem' Book Review ![]() Spanning multiple decades, The Three-Body Problem details the story of our first contact with extraterrestrials, its origins in the Cultural Revolution, and the inevitable conflict between civilizations. Clarke, and the American release of his 2006 novel The Three-Body Problem, the first in a trilogy, is the perfect introduction. Liu Cixin is one of the biggest sci-fi names in China, a visionary on par with Arthur C. The Three-Body Problem is the first novel from Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin to be translated for American audiences (many of his short stories are available on Kindle). ![]()
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