Reddit reviews The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past (1))

Why is nobody mentioning the sci-fi Three Body Problem?

Anyone who enjoys this comment; I highly recommend you read this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765377063

The less spoilers you know about it, the better.

> Between 23 and 55 million people died in the famine following the Great Leap Forward.

Yes Mao is dead, today CCP is nothing like Mao's. If Mao saw today's China he would point a gun to his head and pull the trigger.

Also CCP's top leaders look at Mao as an utter failure. Xi Jinping and his predecessors were victims of Mao's cultural revolution.

There is a book called Three body problem written by a chinese author that won Hugo Award and recommended by Obama. In the first chapter he unapologetically criticised cultural revolution and it's brutality. The book is the best seller in China and has been translated into English in the west. You can criticise or write about CR in china, you're not gonna get arrested for it. Proof:

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths-Past/dp/0765377063

> Oh, I don't think the US is perfect.

Well at least you're honest in that regard.

> But China is not ready to be a world leader.

That's a very US mindset. China doesn't want to be a world leader American way. They just want westerners to stay the fuck out of Chinese politics.

http://smile.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765377063

The Three Body Problem http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765377063

I think Grey would really enjoy Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Amazon) and its Sequel The Dark Forest.

...Brady described the "empty" sky as an abandoned city (see Vanilla Sky)...as the sequel's name says, you might also describe it as a Dark Forest where humanity is the only guy lighting a big fire and clumsely searching for more wood and stuff, not particulary caring who or what might be watching and evaluating options (for example: our technology advances exponentially, what would somebody ahead of us think of that if they can only advance linear?)



...the books are not without flaw but very original and interesting in their style.

Here's another I've heard pretty good things about, which I plan to read once I finish Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (which is fucking long holy shit only halfway done.)

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

> Liu Cixin

Are you talking about this? http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765377063

that book is fiction.

BQ: I literally just finished The Three Body Problem Trilogy last night. It was pretty interesting. At first glance you might think it is super sci-fi like Star Wars, but it isn't. The books are essentially about how people, and society as a whole, react to the discovery of alien life. So, although the environment is Sci-Fi, the main plot is very much about sociology.

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I finally caved and got YNAB. I've spent a few hours this morning trying to figure out what I'm doing.

There was a pretty interesting sci-fi book about this called "The Three Body Problem". It is also what I'd been assuming was behind the erratic seasons on Planetos.

Are you excited about the Three Body Problem translation coming out? I hear it explores the idea of why intelligent civilizations would be (radio) quiet.