![]() ![]() 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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