Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. Praise for The Three-Body Problem: 'Your next...
My Notes:
A fairly light read. Some thought provoking concepts, can align enough with some of the main premises to make it engaging. Wasn't a huge fan of the translation, bit too american (but then I have been scarred by american translations). The cultural revolution bits were the strongest, and the strongest theme for me that had the most interest throughout. Particularly as, whilst the glitz of physics and physicist allusions is fun the actual basic physics seemed pretty suspicious in places, as such I wasn't finding myself suspending enough disbelief to go fully along with the main thrust. There still could be a clever play in that there's a deeper level of cultural brainwashing going on, perhaps of the kind evidenced in mental breaks in those scientists who 'survived' the struggle in the cultural revolution, was half expecting that, but it didn't emerge in this book. Also the characters didn't feel super real in that respect, a bit fatalistic rather than the excited I would expect to be more common in scientific thinking, but then science does progress one death at a time I suppose. Humans do suck though, bring on the magic aliens 😜 (but not sure I'd do it i the same way).
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Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.
Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.
This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.
Praise for The Three-Body Problem:
'Your next...
My Notes:
A fairly light read. Some thought provoking concepts, can align enough with some of the main premises to make it engaging. Wasn't a huge fan of the translation, bit too american (but then I have been scarred by american translations). The cultural revolution bits were the strongest, and the strongest theme for me that had the most interest throughout. Particularly as, whilst the glitz of physics and physicist allusions is fun the actual basic physics seemed pretty suspicious in places, as such I wasn't finding myself suspending enough disbelief to go fully along with the main thrust. There still could be a clever play in that there's a deeper level of cultural brainwashing going on, perhaps of the kind evidenced in mental breaks in those scientists who 'survived' the struggle in the cultural revolution, was half expecting that, but it didn't emerge in this book. Also the characters didn't feel super real in that respect, a bit fatalistic rather than the excited I would expect to be more common in scientific thinking, but then science does progress one death at a time I suppose. Humans do suck though, bring on the magic aliens 😜 (but not sure I'd do it i the same way).