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

by Liu Cixin

“Do you think I became famous for myself? To my eyes, the entire human race is a pile of garbage. Why would I care what they think? But if I’m not famous, how do I direct and channel their thinking?”

Earth civilization had a way to transmit at the level of a Kardashev Type II civilization.

Is this all there is to my life? And millions of times he had answered himself: Yes, this is all there is. All that you have in this life is the endless loneliness in the tiny space of this listening post.