Book Review: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (2014)
I've been wanting to read this book for some time as it's on every Booktuber's hotlist of modern first-contact, hard sci-fi. For the most part, I was not disappointed... The book begins set during China's cultural revolution which serves to highlight man's cruelty to man and the tension between science and politics. In fact, a good portion of the book - almost it's entire first half - is dedicated to driving this point home. While not a major strike against the book, it does serve notice that the book does not move along at breakneck speed and often spends vast amounts of time dedicated to particular scenes. Fortunately, the book is so beautifully written (or should I say beautifully translated save some remote juvenile-sounding passages) that I completely forgave this particular criticism. The story is vast and infused with intriguing ideas both scientific and philosophical - and I love this - which ultimately culminates in contact with an alien civilization th...