Review of “The Three Body Problem” by Liu Cixin

One of the terrible downfalls of fiction is that if a language barrier exists between a reader and the original work, there is often little hope that it will be overcome. Translation is an extra, complex step that fiction will undergo in order to reach a broader audience, but in a lot of cases, it does not happen. When it does, it’s fantastic, as it gives readers the chance to experience worlds imagined by people outside of their own cultures, bringing in a new wave of perspectives and influe...