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Meanwhile, many intellectuals are playing a video game (which requires a haptic suit), called 'The Three Body Problem'. It's years before she learns the true purpose of the project. She becomes an astrophysicist herself and is recruited for a secret Chinese science/military project, Red Coast. Science and technology are important, but I don't think they should be a religion (which in some quarters they seem to have become).Īs a young girl, Ye Wenjie, an astrophysicist, witnesses the killing of her father by Cultural Revolution fanatics. And science is held up as an object of worship. Interestingly, a minor character in the book who is an executive in a software company says the same thing.Īlso, the author seems preoccupied with social status.

I doubt if millions of humans could achieve the required precision. The 'human formation computer' (a computer powered by trained soldiers with colored flags) seems a bit silly to me, although nothing is impossible.

So this part has some scientific basis.Īlso, the stuff about micro circuitry was interesting.īut I have worked with computers for many years. Evidently, the three body problem has been unsolved by physicists dating back to Newton. This might have been acceptable in the early years of science fiction, but now it just seems like a bad novel.Īs for the science.I'm not a physicist, so I can't really discuss the physics. I won't say much more about this as it's a spoiler. For example, Mike Evans, an environmentalist, conveniently inherits his billionaire father's money at just the right time in the plot. It's impossible to care about these people.Īnd there are many unbelievable plot developments. A few of them commit murders for which they seem entirely unremorseful.

Most of the characters are cold and unsympathetic. Although most of the characters are academics or intellectuals, the most believable and interesting character turns out to be a coarse and apparently ignorant policeman, She Qiang (nicknamed 'Da Shi'). (Unfortunately I only have the audio for this, so I can't quote the text here).īut I found the writing wooden, the characters two-dimensional cartoonish stick figures, and the audio narration poor. I'm not sure if the problem was the translation, or the original text, or both. Plus, it's been nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards.Īs often happens, I'm not with the majority opinion here. This got lots of four and five star reviews here on Goodreads. I'm not sure I read the same book as everyone else. Badly Written and Ill Conceived Science Fiction with a Few Interesting Ideas

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