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

by Liu Cixin

Everyone likes to reminisce, but no one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.

intellectual elites were different: Most of them had already begun to consider issues from a perspective outside the human race. Human civilization had finally given birth to a strong force of alienation.