The Three-Body Problem

De: Cixin Liu

Narrado por: Luke Daniels

Duración: 13 h y 26 m

Resumen del Editor

Soon to be a Netflix Original series!

“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” (Wall Street Journal)

The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy:

The Three-Body Problem

The Dark Forest

Death's End

Other books:

Ball Lightning Supernova Era

To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)

©2006 Liu Cixin (P)2014 Macmillan Audio

The science blew my mind!

This story takes time to reveal its gems and when it does it is totally worth your investment. The science made my brain hurt in the best way possible. Asimov would have wished he wrote this. Getting the second book right now.

WOW! Even after being translated to English

Any additional comments?

Thank You Liu. The journey opened my mind to some prior incomprehensible concepts. Would recommend to anyone who likes to push the boundaries of what physical reality can be.

Needs a second book.

Any additional comments?

I have to wonder if all the quantum/string theory stuff has any merit in the real world. Much of the second half of the book is a heavy a read as I can recall.

a masterpiece of science fiction

A masterpiece of science fiction. Direct and indirect commentary on our society, mixed with fantastic but plausible technology. It kept me guessing the entire time, but satisfying answers to the puzzles presented in the beginning are scattered throughout the middle of the book.

Sooooooooo good.

Loved this book. The characters didn't overshadow the story of man's hope for a better future and where they are willing to go find it.

Be careful what you wish for

If you could sum up The Three-Body Problem in three words, what would they be?

Mind bending contact

What did you like best about this story?

The unexpected consequences of so many actions

Which scene was your favorite?

The Cultural Revolution work camp in the forest

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

I don't know. Adaptation of this complicated story to a film will be challenging. It will be hard to shorten it to a feature film length - what to leave out.

Any additional comments?

A story of alien contact in the context of modern Chinese cultural changes, the gaming world, and fundamental physics. It won't be for everyone but it was worth the effort.

Opens the Door to a New World of SF/F

This is one of the most original concepts for a science fiction story I've read in a long time. "The Three Body Problem" definitely has that bit of foreignness that hits you now and again and feels "different", like watching Japanese anime for the first time did many years ago. Part of that is probably due to the translation, which was excellent. Also I found the names distinguishable enough for the most part, so that I was really able to breeze through this book.

The book grabbed me at several stages, most of them involving the strange video game for which the book is named. At times it felt a lot like a Neal Stephenson book in its high-concept strangeness. Other parts I felt were not so strongly done, including the latter half in which time jumps forward a lot and instead of narrative we get long pieces of history and sometimes just long reports that reminded me of books such as World War Z and Robopocalypse. I felt that the resolution was just not quite as satisfying and although it sets things up for a sequel, there isn't really a major sense of urgency about it all.

I feel that a lot of the praise around this book falls into hyperbole; it definitely isn't a match for Dune, as one of the summaries says. But still, this is a very solid novel that does have that element of strangeness, and definitely raises my opinion of the author and of Chinese SF in general. I hope this book opens up the door for more books to make their way into the English SF/Fantasy industry.

Wow

One of the earlier reviews I read said that this was "The Best Sci/Fi book of this Century".

I thought that was hyperbole.

Now, I agree completely.

Please bring on the 2nd and 3rd books as soon as possible.

Laugh out loud terror

Not wanting to give anything away, this book is brilliantly translated from Chinese. It deftly mixes current teen culture with sci fi with physics with actual history with climate change with living under a cruel regime with great wit. Very original work.

best hard science fiction books

amazing highly reccomend for anyone who likes a deep and philosophical read, mixed with science!