Reddit reviews The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

This book - it's pretty wild.

My recommendations from books I read in the last year or so (yes, these are all VERY STRONG recommends curated from ~100 books in the last year) -

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Science fiction-

Derek Kunsken's The Quantum Magician (I would describe it as a cross between Oceans Eleven with some not-too-Hard Science Fiction. Apparently will be a series, but is perfectly fine as a standalone novel).

Cixin Lu's very popular Three Body Problem series (Mixes cleverly politics, sociology, psychology and science fiction)

James A Corey's The Expanse Series (which has been made into the best sci fi tv series ever!)

Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief series (Hard science fiction. WARNING - A lot of the early stuff is intentionally mystifying with endless terminology that’s only slowly explained since the main character himself has lost his memories. Put piecing it all together is part of the charm.)

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Fantasy-

James Islington's Shadow of What was Lost series (a deep series which makes you think - deep magic, politics, religion all intertwined)

Will Wight's Cradle series (has my vote for one of the best fantasy series ever written)

Brandon Sanderson Legion series (Brandon Sanderson. Nuff said. Creative as always)

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Manga -

Yukito Kishiro's Alita, Battle Angel series (the manga on what the movie was based)

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Non-Fiction-

Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (and how we are not as rational as we believe we are, and how passion works in tandem with rationality in decision making and is actually required for good decisionmaking)

Rothery's Geology - A Complete Introduction (as per title)

Joseph Krauskopf's A Rabbi's Impressions of the Oberammergau Passion Play, available to read online for free, including a fabulous supplementary of Talmud Parallels to the NT (a Rabbi in 1901 explains why he is not a Christian)

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Audiobooks -

Bob Brier's The History of Ancient Egypt (as per title - 25 hrs of the best audiobook lectures. Incredible)

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Academic biblical studies-

Richard Elliot Friedman's Who Wrote The Bible and The Exodus (best academic biblical introductory books into the Documentary Hypothesis and Qenite/Midian hypothesis)

Israel Finkelstein's The Bible Unearthed (how archaelogy relates to the bible)

E.P. Sander's Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63BCE-66CE ​(most detailed book of what Judaism is and their beliefs, and one can see from this balanced [Christian] scholar how Christianity has colored our perspectives of what Jews and Pharisees were really like)

Avigdor Shinan's From gods to God (how Israel transitioned from polytheism to monotheism)

Mark S Smith's The Early History of God (early history of Israel, Canaanites, and YHWH)

James D Tabor's Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity (as per title)

Tom Dykstra's Mark Canonizer of Paul (engrossing - will make you view the gospel of Mark with new eyes)

Jacob L Wright's King David and His Reign Revisited (enhanced ibook - most readable book ever on King David)

Jacob Dunn's thesis on the Midianite/Kenite hypothesis (free pdf download - warning - highly technical but also extremely well referenced)

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I also recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/

I just have to make another reply because the amount of ignorance in this post is just simply staggering.

More on Mao, many people do not worship Mao. Those who look at him favourably are also divided on the opinion. On one hand Mao is acknowledged as the person who liberated China from colonial meddling and division. He's the one who united a fragmented China.

On the other hand, the general consensus is that while he was a great general, he was a terrible ruler.

His great leap forward and cultural revolution were utter failures. Even the current government acknowledges it and moved on from Mao's policies.

Nowadays, it isn't a crime to criticise the cultural revolution, discuss or WRITE about it in a best selling novel. Case in point, in 2006, a chinese author by the name of Liu Cixin published a sci-fi novel named "Three body problem", in the first two chapters he unapologetically portrayed the failure and brutality of cultural revolution.

The book became the best selling sci-fi novel in China. In 2015 it was translated into English in the west and won the prestigious Hugo award for best novel. Obama read it and recommended it as his favourite book to read during his presidency.

Proof:

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500440486&sr=8-1&keywords=three+body+problem

If you're interested in non-Western sci-fi, I'd recommend the Three Body Problem and its sequels. I'm reading the first book now and it's quite good.

Favorite series of all time is The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. It's extremely dense reading, but thought it was worth it for how the author handled the world.

I graze across everything without having a strong preference for anything other than quality of world-building. I generally cannot get into a universe that doesn't have well defined rules and frameworks that map back to the characters. I'm the type that will just throw down a book if there's a dues ex machina.

Really really like Asimov. I, Robot. Foundation Series (particularly the first book).

Here are some quick recommendations from my list of favorites for those who are interested (I hope mods are OK with links to make looking easier, otherwise I'll happily remove them). These books engaged and inspired me and my imagination:

The Alchemist:

>The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.

>Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.

The Three Body Problem is a Chinese Science Fiction novel that has recently become popular in the West thanks to a good translation (I recommend reading my synopsis and not the Amazon one, to avoid spoilers):

>Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project looks for signals in space from alien civilizations. Meanwhile, in the present day, a physicist joins a grizzled detective to investigate why famous scientists are all committing suicide.

Fahrenheit 451:

>Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

The Art of Happiness (by the Dalai Lama):

>Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and a hugely sought-after speaker and statesman. Why is he so popular? Even after spending only a few minutes in his presence you can't help feeling happier.

Snow Crash:

>Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.

You might really enjoy The Three Body Problem, a Chinese sci-fi book that explores the hungry eyes situation brilliantly.

As soon as I saw this post I immediately thought of this.

There's also an entire sci-fi trilogy based on that premise. Highly recommended.

It's actually called the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu. It's apparently pretty big in China. But I've kept myself pretty ignorant about what it's about because I want to be surprised.

Here's the Amazon page with a description for the first book.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032

Nice writing prompt. I won't spoil it, but in the Three Body Problem series, similar subtleties of human communication play a big role in deciding the fate of the human race. Definitely worth a read.

This is a central plot point of the awesome sci-fi series that starts with The Three-Body Problem

Though it certainly isn't perfect, based on your response I would recommend you read [The Three Body Problem].(https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032)

Though it goes off on some tangents, I believe it may be fairly accurate when it comes down to intelligent life in the galaxy.

Not only is there an English version, it won the Hugo Award.

The Three Body Problem
Written by: Cixin Liu
Translated by: Ken Liu

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032

In the sci-fi book, The Three-Body Problem, they used this very idea to communicate long distances.

So here's some of the textbooks I read (and still own) from my Asian History courses at college. All are worth reading over, but you'll also want teachers to help you, to talk with historians from China, and eventually just to go to China and see a lot of stuff for yourself.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, by Patricia Ebrey.

Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, edited by Patricia Ebrey.

Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung, written by the man himself.

Fiction:

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie.

The Outlaws of the Marsh, by Shi Nai'An and Sidney Shapiro.

The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu and Ken Liu.

These are a relatively good start to help you get a grounding in China's history. Everyone in this thread has also given some good suggestions. And visit /r/askhistorians; they'll have some better sources you can check out.

Not sure about scifi movies, but there's a book, The Three Body Problem that has won the Hugo award. The title refers to the famous three-body problem in physics, which is known for having no closed-form general solution. People around this sub generally agree that the original Chinese version is better than the translation, no surprise there; but many English readers I've asked say they still liked the translation. It also has 2 sequels, so it's a trilogy really. And they're coming out with a film adaptation next year.

If you like Arrival (which you should!), I highly, HIGHLY recommend
reading the book series 'The Three Body Problem'.

The first book in the series won The Hugo Award for best sci-fi novel last year, and balances so many things well, like the Cultural Revolution, exploration, sociology, SETI, and hard sci-fi. Very original and unpredictable.

Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/

I'll start us off.

If you're into science fiction, do yourself a favor and read the three book series that starts with The Three Body Problem. Fucking mindblowing. I don't recommend reading the whole description/overview. Just know it's an awesome book and jump in.

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You might want to read The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. This series provides some interesting thoughts on your question.

Three Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu. Link is for first book:

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XPRZ0BKYWBX6&keywords=three+body+problem&qid=1557605024&s=gateway&sprefix=Three+body%2Caps%2C531&sr=8-1

You won't regret it. Read the original edition if you know some Chinese.

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I'm an active reader of SFs but I'm not that into the traditional ones that read more or less like a history book (think Dune, Foundation, etc.).

It is somewhat hard SF and not Japanese, but I recently enjoyed The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem od nekog kineza, ako neko voli znanstvenu fantastiku, toplo preporučam.

It is indeed a book

Answers contained within: The Three-Body Problem

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032