At one level they are both fairly conventional Vernor Vinge-style big space opera novels (the two are part of a trilogy). Early November I was mesmerized by Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest. ' The best kind of science fiction, familiar but strange all at the same time.The refuge from a depressing present (Roch Marc Christian Kaboré since winning the election last year has done almost nothing, and Burkina Faso’s prospects for a vibrant economy and polity seem to fade with each passing week ) is in science fiction.

a testament to just how far own towering imagination has taken him: Far beyond the borders of his country, and forever into the canon of science fiction. 'A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos-in-the-balance thriller. 'A must-read in any language.” - Booklist, on The Three Body Problem “Remarkable, revelatory and not to be missed.” -Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Three Body Problem “ Extraordinary.” - The New Yorker, on The Three Body Problem a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.” - George R. 'Wildly imaginative, really interesting.' -President Barack Obama on the Three-Body Problem trilogy The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series #2) All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.

Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike.

The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time.

This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. 'Wildly imaginative.' -President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy

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