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Tangentially - no scifi books have worked on my mind in the same way that the Three Body Problem trilogy. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance

Tangentially - no scifi books have worked on my mind in the same way that the Three Body Problem trilogy. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths-Past-ebook/dp/B00IQO403K/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1527691517&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=three+body+problem&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...

ConfusedDog 8y ago
Second that. It's probably the best hard science fiction out there.
- donquichotte 8y ago
  Third that. The author's upbringing in rural communist China gives these books an amazing depth.
  - midrus 8y ago
    Fourth that. Such a great book.
    - lsadam0 8y ago
      It caught my eye that you said 'book' rather than 'books'. You might not be aware Three Body is part of a trilogy? If you've not read The Dark Forest and Death's End, you are in for a real treat.
- perfmode 8y ago
  better than Weir’s martian?
  - lsadam0 8y ago
    I don't think The Martian and Three-Body should be compared. I think it's fair to say that The Martian is more 'hard sci-fi' in that the story is more grounded in what we know to be true. Three-Body has to invent some ideas in order to finish it's story. That said, I overall enjoyed Three Body more. Even if it did push me into an existential crisis of some sort.
zanmat0 8y ago
Agreed, by far the best books I've ever read. And second that for the mild existential crisis.
dimator 8y ago
I'll be that guy. The writing was completely off for me, I don't know if it was the Chinese sensibilities that I was lacking, or something lost in translation, or what, but I couldn't understand the main characters at all. The multipage scientific exposition sections do not make this "hard scifi" (and they're whacky anyway). I never got the hype, and I never wanted to follow through with the other 2 books.

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Tangentially - no scifi books have worked on my mind in the same way that the Three Body Problem trilogy. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance

by gregorymichael 8y ago

ConfusedDog 8y ago
Second that. It's probably the best hard science fiction out there.
- donquichotte 8y ago
  Third that. The author's upbringing in rural communist China gives these books an amazing depth.
  - midrus 8y ago
    Fourth that. Such a great book.
    - lsadam0 8y ago
      It caught my eye that you said 'book' rather than 'books'. You might not be aware Three Body is part of a trilogy? If you've not read The Dark Forest and Death's End, you are in for a real treat.
- perfmode 8y ago
  better than Weir’s martian?
  - lsadam0 8y ago
    I don't think The Martian and Three-Body should be compared. I think it's fair to say that The Martian is more 'hard sci-fi' in that the story is more grounded in what we know to be true. Three-Body has to invent some ideas in order to finish it's story. That said, I overall enjoyed Three Body more. Even if it did push me into an existential crisis of some sort.
zanmat0 8y ago
Agreed, by far the best books I've ever read. And second that for the mild existential crisis.
dimator 8y ago
I'll be that guy. The writing was completely off for me, I don't know if it was the Chinese sensibilities that I was lacking, or something lost in translation, or what, but I couldn't understand the main characters at all. The multipage scientific exposition sections do not make this "hard scifi" (and they're whacky anyway). I never got the hype, and I never wanted to follow through with the other 2 books.