A review by testaroscia
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

4.0

This kept gravitating between liking it (3) and really liking it (4). I loved the sino-centric point of view, the context of the cultural revolution, I loved the attention to the science, the concept of the three body world. However I really had a problem with the very very weak motivation that would drive a whole section of the Human population to support blindly the alien cause.

Also there is another narrative problem that I have

{SPOLER ALERT]

How do the Earth characters know about the existence, now on earth, of the Sophons? That kind of information would never have been sent because the whole point was conceeling the existance of the sophons in the first place.

Maybe I missed that part but it seems critical to the narrative.


On the whole, however I do look forward to the second part.