I’ve always loved science fiction, my knowledge of the genre up to that point was limited to works by American and European authors: H.G. I was introduced to the novel in late 2015, while living in Shanghai as an English teacher. Read More: Review of Broken Stars – More Chinese Sci-Fiįortunately, in the English edition, translator Ken Liu seamlessly integrates background information about the period within the text and in selected footnotes, allowing readers who may be unfamiliar to with Chinese history to enjoy the novel as well.
Some understanding of the Cultural Revolution – a period of class struggles during the late 1960s and early 1970s with the professed goal of preserving pure communist ideology – is necessary to comprehend the events that form the spine of the novel’s plot. The protagonist of the early 2000s plot is Wang Miao, a well-to-do nanomaterials scientist who teams up with the loud-talking, chain-smoking police officer Shi Qiang to investigate the mysterious deaths of local scientists, premeditated events that they will discover are inextricably linked to the tragedies of the Cultural Revolution. The Three Body Problem, appropriately, contains three intertwining plots: The first, in the early 1970s during China’s Cultural Revolution the second, in the early 2000s and a third set inside of a virtual reality game centered in an extraterrestrial world terrorised by its three-sun system. The Three Plots of The Three Body Problem It is, without a doubt, one of the most mind-bending, contemplative and inspiring pieces of fiction I’ve recently read. Liu’s knowledge of science and engineering permeates Three Body, which is bursting with detailed explanations of astronomy and abstract physics – challenging, but illuminating passages that are well-worth the effort of reading. The author, Cixin Liu, is an engineer who moonlighted as a writer for more than three decades while working at a power plant in China’s Shanxi Province. Three Body is the first Chinese science fiction novel translated into English for western audiences. The questions are familiar, but the execution is a page-turning, uniquely Chinese epic. What would it take for a single person to betray the entire human race?.Do humans deserve to occupy a planet – essentially a rotating Eden in a barren universe – that they are needlessly destroying?.The Three Body Problem poses questions that are familiar in science fiction:
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