The Three‐Body Problem

I think the image I will always remember is the computer made of tens of thousands of humans and flags. Liu Cixin explains how to make AND, OR, and NOT gates, and it is great, because the image concocted of a plain filled with people, all being fed by huge supply trains... Impossible to forget.

It is a strange story overall too. An the 3-body problem itself is really an issue. ;-)

Wow. In the classic way of much great sci-fi, this book uses a couple of outlandish inventions to explore the human society of its time. The inventions themselves are interesting, but their reflections in earth society much more so.



This is partly a book about China--particularly about how the horrors of the Cultural Revolution still shape survivors even now--but it also has a lot to say about globalised culture, especially the divisions within the environmental movement.



The first 2 or 3 chapters are set in the Cultural Revolution and are absolutely harrowing. If you have a hard time getting through them, it's worth knowing that the book doesn't stay that dark.