The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin · 2008
Liu Cixin's 2008 novel begins with the Chinese Cultural Revolution and spirals outward to a three-sun alien civilization, triggering consequences across centuries. It changed what was possible in global SF and became the most important non-Anglophone SF novel of this century.
The case against
Characters exist to receive exposition; Wang Miao, nominally the protagonist, has the inner life of a lab instrument. Dialogue lands wooden in any translation, the virtual-reality game sequences run long, and the physics arrives in lecture-sized blocks. Liu's ideas are the whole show; the people are scaffolding.
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