three body problem review

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The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Over 1 million copies sold in North America

“A mind-bending epic.”―The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”―The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”―TIME • “Extraordinary.”―The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”―Barack Obama • “Provocative.”―Slate • “A breakthrough book.”―George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”―GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”―NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”―The Washington Post

The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series―The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End―by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens―and succeeds.

Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth.

News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost.

The Three Body Problem trilogy is a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision.

The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End

Other Books by Cixin Liu
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up the Sky
The Wandering Earth
A View from the Stars

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books (October 22, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1515 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250254493
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250254498
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 4.2 x 9.6 inches
Reviewer: AYM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very well thought of story line with a lot of ideas to think about
Review: I didn't know anything about this book or the author, just saw the book in a local bookstore, then checked the rating on Amazon and bought it. I did not read any of the customer reviews to not spoil the reading for me. My own impression was very good. Still in the middle of the 3rd book (Death's End) but I am sure it won't disappoint. I am impressed by the content of the books, so far "The Dark Forest" is the best. All the books have so many ideas that one can just think about for days, and some of these ideas come with Liu Cixin's interpretation and contemplation, which are well within the reasoning and logic boundaries, but still make one think deeper about essential questions. The storyline is also well preserved throughout the books, although they go back and forth in time, but still nothing confusing, just filling in more details, which I would think were not necessary, but after reading I got surprised at how deep he thought about all the details that he's able to provide so much without making it sound like nonsense or boring.After completing the 2nd book, I read some reviews on goodreads, and a lot of people claimed to have been disappointed, mostly because of the story not being good and the characters very dry and artificial, some accused him of misogyny and sexism. My take on this is if you really want to read this book as a masterpiece of literature and you're looking for all the sophisticated details in characters and scene descriptions, you better skip this set and just read something from Dostoevsky or Leo Tolstoy, but if you are curious about interesting content and fascinating ideas about both everyday things you even don't stop to think about and things that you don't think about because you can't even start imagining such things, then this book is well worth the money and the time.Hope this helps!

Reviewer: Sunny Dilgeer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Utterly epic
Review: Cixin Liu has an incredible imagination, coupled with a Grand Scope of setting scenes.This is a must read fiction book for everyone on Earth.

Reviewer: Leland Fowler
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Masterpiece of Modern Science Fiction
Review: This is one of the best works of science fiction I've ever read. This will be a series to rival the foundation, dune , or the culture series.So creative, so interesting, so well written and translated. I found myself taken aback over and over again by the intricacy of this story and the daring with which it faced the logical outcomes of modern philosophy and the trajectory of progress.At the end of the book I was left with a deep feeling of gratitude. I realized no matter the powers or extent of progress there will never be a time more precious than the present because we imbue it with meaning by choosing to be present. There is nothing better than being in your time. The characters in this book struggle with this choice and through then one can realize the same choice is already ours to make far before technology makes that choice for us.A more powerful tour de force than Niche could ever have dreamed of.

Reviewer: Paladin
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not An Easy Read
Review: What this series is not:it is not Asimov, or Clarke, or Heinlein, or Herbert. It is closer to science fiction than anything else, but it is not actually hard or soft sci-fi, or fantasy, or S&S, or D&D, or fictional history, or anything else that fits in an easily recognizable category. Sometimes it's economics. Sometimes it's history. Sometimes it's sociology. Sometimes it's pure fantasy. Sci-fi it is, until sometimes it's not. If you were not expecting that, look elsewhere. Be warned.What it is:It is long. Game of Thrones long. Wheel of Time Long. LOTR long. Long, long, long. Loooong. With time shifts, flash forwards, flash backs, flash sideways, flash ups, flash downs. Covering centuries, millennia, eons, with a cast of characters to match - scores of them, some you will get to know, some you will not, some you won't care. Not to give away spoilers, but many characters are put into hibernation, to re-emerge centuries later interacting with new characters (and some old ones). Evil characters become good characters, good characters become evil. From a certain point of view. You need to keep up. Plots within plots within plots. Within plots. Be warned.It is Chinese. China has a rich, complex, diverse, thousands-of-years-old culture, language and history, present era excluded. Which has never been easily transferable or comprehensible to Western eyes or ears. The series is written in that context and cultural milieu, sometimes as foreign to the reader as the aliens it portrays, even with the excellent translation. And sometimes overlayed with incomprehensible internal logic, events, or descriptions that are key to understanding the next character, sentence, paragraph or chapter. But that's on the reader, not the writer. Be warned.It is science. Not garden-variety math, or physics, or chemistry often alluded to or referenced in other fiction, but quantum mechanics science. Hard quantum mechanics science. And cosmology. Some actual, some not, but based on their foundations and critical to understanding the plot(s). Swimming in the ocean of all of the above. I once took an organic chemistry course (pre-Internet and home computers), rightly reputed to be the hardest course in the curriculum. With tests to match. Someone in the class asked jokingly if they could bring the textbook to the first exam. The Nobel-winning professor to our surprise said "Sure. Bring anything you want. Chemistry set. Mass spectrophotometer. Periodic table. Calculator, slide rule, texts - I can recommend some. Anything." And he was right - it didn't help. It won't help you either. Be warned.***POSSIBLE, MAYBE, PERHAPS SPOILERS. STOP HERE IF CONCERNED.***It is an end of the world series. It is an end of the Universe series. It is an end of time series. And yet - not. But you know or should know that from the book titles. It is supremely depressing, or sublimely uplifting. Or both. Or neither. If you tend to become invested mentally or emotionally in the written word, you could experience either. Or both. Or nothing. Be warned.In short, it is not an easy read. Worth it, if you want to get to the end of the ultimate Netflix series with some comprehension of what just happened. But thank your alien stars that Netflix has condensed, and edited, and rendered watchable and somewhat understandable this series by most humans on this planet in this era. Otherwise, it would be strictly for viewing by the Trisolarans.

Reviewer: Norene
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Loved
Review: All 3 books are good. Second book a bit of a hodgepodge going back and forth. But overall good - altho holding a 400 page book is a bit tough - it’s right up there with The Expanse - except more culturally and philosophically complex. Science is deep! But the science is always deep!

Reviewer: JB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A MUST READ! Best sci-fi in decades
Review: This is one of the best sci-fi series I've read in years, perhaps decades. Deep and intense, with a storyline spanning thousands of years over the course of the three books. Awesome!

Reviewer: Austin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good book!
Review: I like it. Science heavy but still thrilling. The third book is my favorite. 8 feel like the ending is satisfying

Reviewer: Stevinski
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book series, its a very unique story that will quickly captivate you into reading more, before you know it you be fully immersed into the depths of this dreamy story.This book series has aspects of science fiction, dystopian, fantasy, crime investigation, psychological thriller and some romance for an added flair. The author does a very unique blend of all these genres in a writing style that is easy to understand and woven together in a very dreamy way. He also blends in a lot of true facts into this book so it really is captivating.I have to say this book series in the best book ive ever read. It is truly indescribable and I highly recommend reading this book as it covers all three books of the three body problem.Since this series is converted from chinese to english, and chinese does not have all the tenses as we do in english. I doubt any TV show that is ever made can fully capture the true essence of the three body problem series.I highly recommend this book series to anyone.

Reviewer: Ernesto
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Los libros están bien encuadernados y se sienten de buena calidad. Es bueno que vengan en la cajita porque los protege de los golpes que seguramente recibirán en el envío

Reviewer: Leonardo Muglia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Uma obra prima que vai te fazer pensar sobre o universo de uma maneira nova e terrivelmente assustadora. Cixin Liu é realmente extraordinário.

Reviewer: PK
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: An absolutely wonderful book, everyone should read it !

Reviewer: Pontus Nellgård
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The surrounding box was broken on arrival but they had ”fixed” it WITH TAPE….The quality of the pages is not pleasant.The books are great