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The Three Body Problem takes a familiar premise - aliens need to leave their world and want ours - and works it through in a compelling, near future narrative. It's heavy on the science, with no reason for the reader to judge one way or the other. And it has a surprising number of twists and turns played out in detail - much like in Neal Stephenson's earlier novels. Liu Cixin packs in so many well thought out concepts, I just wonder how he has managed to publish so many books!
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"The sun rose to the middle of the sky. Everything that floated -- men, colossal blocks of stone, astronomical instruments, bronze cauldrons -- began to rise slowly, then accelerated. Wang glanced at the human-formation computer and saw a nightmarish sight: The thirty million men who had formed the motherboard were floating away from the earth and rising, like a swarm of ants sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. The ground they left behind clearly displayed the marks of the motherboard circuits. The s...more

Just finished a re-read of this in anticipation of the final book ( 1 week from today 9/20/16). It made soo much more sense the second time around. I think I gave it a four star review originally knowing that it was worth it even not fully understanding all of it. Now I can only agree with my original sentiment.
Unfolding a proton, stymieing scientific progress what ?? I get it now.
Unfolding a proton, stymieing scientific progress what ?? I get it now.

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