It’s difficult to rate a book like this one, which has an epic quality to it. Seeing a visual interpretation of the game sequences enhanced my interest in those sections. At about two-thirds in, I discovered the Chinese TV series based on this book at. Some readers will not find this problematic. The pacing slowed down for me when Wang Miao is introduced to the game called three-body. I found myself pouring through the pages. The first half of the story is excellently paced.

Shi Qiang and Wang Miao rub each other the wrong way at first, but Shi Qiang grew on Wang Miao just like he did me. He provides relief, often humorous, from the dark, frowny, too burdened intellectuals. He has a bad reputation but he’s one of those people that can see beyond the trees to envision the entire forest, so his expertise is sought after. One of the policemen is Captain Shi Qiang, who is rough, tough, blustery, and rude. Wang Miao’s appointments for that day have already been rescheduled by the investigators.

Wang Miao is an important scientist in the field of nanotechnology he's developing a special nanomaterial with superpowers. Policemen show up at Wang Miao’s apartment to command his presence at an important meeting. In the story’s present time (somewhere around 2006), there is a flux of scientists committing suicide. She becomes an astrophysicist, eventually landing at Red Coast Base, whose true goal is purposefully obfuscated. This and other incidents become the psychological background of a decision she will make that will affect the destiny of the human race. She is present at her father’s ‘struggle session’ and traumatized by what happens. One of the main characters of this novel is Ye Wenjie, daughter of Professor Ye Zhetai. Many academics and intellectuals during this time chose suicide over the gauntlet of a struggle session. Over a period of forty days, in Beijing alone, more than seventeen hundred victims of struggle sessions were beaten to death. One of the opening scenes is a traumatic ‘struggle session,’ where Professor Ye Zhetai is berated, publicly humiliated, and so much worse by his wife and students. It’s a world filled with academia and nerdy scientists working on ‘the next big thing.’ However this story’s roots are in the past, in late 1960s Mao Zedung’s Cultural Revolution. There’s something shiny and awesome about science and technology that draws me in for a closer look. Dick’s ‘The Minority Report’ and the film, ‘Total Recall’ based on another Philip K.

This book fascinated me in the same way that Philip K. The premise is not original but the way Liu writes is incredibly creative he makes the tale of first contact with aliens uniquely his own. ‘The Three-Body Problem’ is a science fiction novel by Cixin Liu.

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