![]() ![]() She takes a kind of refuge at a military facility secretly researching how to contact alien races and discovers a primitive method to do so.She thus accidentally gives away Earth’s location to a civilisation four light-years away known as the Trisolarians - whose own incredibly volatile planet is under risk. The events of the first book concern a Chinese budding astro-physicist named Ye Wenjie whose spirit and faith in humanity is utterly broken by the Cultural Revolution. ![]() In the interests of not spoiling them, and word-count, this review might have to simplify a few of the more pertinent ones. Cixin plays around with a number of dense, speculative science and technology concepts which wonderfully underpin the dramatic action and very rarely obscure the action. These are the central themes that China’s foremost hard sci-fi writer Liu Cixin wraps up in an elegantly written, surprisingly humorous and ultimately humanistic sequel to The Three Body Problem. Only here, the universe isn’t uncaring, it’s quite pointedly predatory. Even if one moves forward - how do we find meaning in such a vast, uncaring universe? ![]() These are universal, recurrent maladies that everyone experiences at points throughout their lives. ![]()
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