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

by Liu Cixin

I’ve spent the first half of my life unveiling this ugliness with the scalpel of literature, but now I’m even sick of the work of dissection.

They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

Is the technological gap between humans and Trisolarans greater than the one between locusts and humans?”

There’s a strange contradiction revealed by the naïveté and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare

and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct.