tizl
Captain
Hey has anyone else read this? I hadn't heard about it until last summer, and people were calling Cixin Liu the Chinese Arthur C Clarke. So I read the trilogy, and was fascinated by it! It's three books: The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End.
It's translated from Chinese, so at times the prose is awkward, and he isn't the best at characterization. In addition there are sections, especially in the first book, that are fairly slow.
The real star(s) of the novels are the concepts of science and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence. I don't want to spoil anything, but the ideas regarding the latter concept are something I've never considered or heard/read about anywhere else, and they blew my mind and terrified me at the same time. Each novel (there are three) ramps up the amount and detail of scientific concepts, and I often stopped and tracked back several pages simply out of awe and joy from what I was reading. Maybe that will reveal me as not very knowledgeable compared to some of you, I'm the definition of a layman
I would definitely recommend this trilogy to anyone who loves their science as hard as a diamond, and don't mind some shortcomings in the storytelling/characterization department to get it that way.
It's translated from Chinese, so at times the prose is awkward, and he isn't the best at characterization. In addition there are sections, especially in the first book, that are fairly slow.
The real star(s) of the novels are the concepts of science and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence. I don't want to spoil anything, but the ideas regarding the latter concept are something I've never considered or heard/read about anywhere else, and they blew my mind and terrified me at the same time. Each novel (there are three) ramps up the amount and detail of scientific concepts, and I often stopped and tracked back several pages simply out of awe and joy from what I was reading. Maybe that will reveal me as not very knowledgeable compared to some of you, I'm the definition of a layman
I would definitely recommend this trilogy to anyone who loves their science as hard as a diamond, and don't mind some shortcomings in the storytelling/characterization department to get it that way.