The Three-Body Problem

calum shared a tip "Fun sci fi that partially takes place during the Cultural Revolution in communist China. Explores everything from higher dimensional physics to the absurd collision of politics and science."

PousseLananas shared a tip "The first chapter in a trilogy, this book was compelling, fascinating, and unexpected. An absolute most read for fans of scienced-based science-fiction."

allofakind shared a tip "This is certainly not the kind of book I typically read but now that I have I am extremely hooked and will have to read the next two. This is my boyfriends favorite series and now I know why. The book starts off very vague and confusing, with strange things happening that don't make sense and a lot of science words being thrown around that I don't understand but slowly everything is revealed one by one in different ways. There are like at least 3 plot twists, and I only really predicted like one and a half of them. The science fiction in this book feels more like science fact, though I have to admit that sometimes I get lost when the author just goes on long scientific rants. However, as someone who really dislikes physics and chemistry, everything is still explained just enough to keep me in the loop and interested in the suspense and stress of the situations. Being a translation, there are a lot of Chinese culture or history references that I'm sure are more impactful without having to read the footnotes, and the descriptions and characterization was a little lacking at times, but all in all I think it was a very good book that I would recommend. Does leave on a bit of a cliffhanger as well so..."