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A review by wintersavenger
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
5.0
The four day reading window ought to be a good enough review of this book for anyone. I did not want to stop for a single second.
In itself, the Three Body Problem is a book that appears to favour plot over any real characterisation beyond one or two extremists that take centre stage, but I can't bring myself to fault it for that. With the scope of what Cixin Liu is trying to achieve through this decade spanning tale, it's easy to let him off the hook.
From other reviews that I have read, I'm slightly relieved to find that I am not the only one with such a limited knowledge of China during the Cultural Revolution. Opening the novel with horrific treatment of China's scientists and intellectuals, the tone is set for the rest of the novel. You know you're not in for a happy ride.
Hard on the science, but not remotely off-putting, we follow as nanotechnologist Wang Miao is dragged into galaxy wide conspiracy between the human race and the first alien species to make contact with the Earth. Filled with an overwhelming sense of doom and dread throughout, I cannot wait to begin the sequel in this trilogy - which I will probably begin immediately.
In itself, the Three Body Problem is a book that appears to favour plot over any real characterisation beyond one or two extremists that take centre stage, but I can't bring myself to fault it for that. With the scope of what Cixin Liu is trying to achieve through this decade spanning tale, it's easy to let him off the hook.
From other reviews that I have read, I'm slightly relieved to find that I am not the only one with such a limited knowledge of China during the Cultural Revolution. Opening the novel with horrific treatment of China's scientists and intellectuals, the tone is set for the rest of the novel. You know you're not in for a happy ride.
Hard on the science, but not remotely off-putting, we follow as nanotechnologist Wang Miao is dragged into galaxy wide conspiracy between the human race and the first alien species to make contact with the Earth. Filled with an overwhelming sense of doom and dread throughout, I cannot wait to begin the sequel in this trilogy - which I will probably begin immediately.