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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Liu Cixin,

Ken Liu (Translator)

Start date: May 15, 2020

Finish date: June 1, 2020

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Sep 02, 2015 Catherine rated it really liked it

Shelves: hugo-award-winners, sci-fi, audiobook, non-white-non-anglo-authors, hard-sf, litrpg, in-translation

I'm glad I finally finished this after a long hiatus (I don't commute as much as I used to and I listened to this audiobook while commuting). Cixin Liu is China's most famous and best-selling science fiction author.

The backdrop of this novel alternates between a 20-minutes-from-now near future China and China during the Cultural Revolution. In the past, astrophysicist and accidental political dissident Ye Wenjie finds herself exiled to Red Coast Base where the Chinese government is covertly usin ...more

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Feb 14, 2021 Schnaucl rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, series, fiction, science-fiction, read_2021

I wanted to like it more than I did. The premise is promising but the execution didn't work well for me. There were times the dialog was fine and at times it was incredibly stilted. I don't know if that's because of the translation or the source material.

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Dec 21, 2016 D rated it really liked it

I like going into books without reading much about them or reading reviews. I take a trusted friend's word or a list with others I've enjoyed and just jump in. This was one of them, and I was a little confused for the first chunk when all it dealt with was scenes from the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and I had had the impression it would be a sci-fi story with aliens and shit.

Well, I was just impatient, I guess. There's some good, basic science stuff that ramped up into some multi-dimensional t ...more

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