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This is my first @pluralistic@mamot.fr book, and I decided to support the Kickstarter campaign after seeing it on Mastodon. Enjoying the first chapter! Set up for a great thriller, may require some technical knowledge/literacy on the basics of penetration testing, cryptography, cryptocurrency, and silicon valley jargon eg VC, Angel, Unicorn etc.

One of those books you stay up late reading. For one reason or another, it doesn’t feel like a 400 pg book. I wish I could say more but I’m too excited to read the next one. The Three Body Problem is slated for a Netflix series adaptation and I will say that this seems like a bad idea. Demands on the reader re: literacy in university-level physics are not insignificant, if large parts of the motivation and justification for events is to be understood. It’s not impenetrable, but as a science fan and moderately conversant person in science, broadly, I felt as though my ability to follow was challenged, if not outpaced. I did drop out of uni on 5 separate occasions, though, so maybe I’m less conversant than I thought. Strongly recommended.

About a hundred pages in and can’t put it down. This is why I read fiction.

Loved reading it, though twenty years later it’s a bit glaring that all the supporting characters are women, and all the women are potential love interests, with all the men either minor supporting characters or sexual rivals to the main character. Don’t know whether that gets better as the series goes on. Still a fun mystery novel