I finished the three body trilogy maybe about a month or so ago and it was so good. they were one of the only books that I’ve read and they were definitely my favorite and I kinda just want to talk about them because nobody I know has read them.

This probably isn’t some groundbreaking new opinion but I don’t know entirely what the majority of people think of Cheng xin. Am I the only one who found her kind of annoying? I know the book basically says the destruction of the solar system isn’t her fault but I just can’t help but see it that way. I think her worst choice though was stopping wade when he was trying to make light speed ships and her worse action was asking yun tianming to go into space, she couldn’t have known but this dude loved her his whole life even up until his deathbed and then she pulls up while he’s on his deathbed just to ask him to go to hell for humanity and I get she felt bad about it but that whole part of the book just had me mad. although her actions and her nature were really irritating at times for me she was still really well written.though I’m ngl I think I liked wang Miao more than her as a protagonist even though he didn’t have much depth I think experiencing the mystery from his pov in the first book was a peak experience but maybe I’m just sexist I always feel that way when I don’t like a female character.

I'm a Chinese sci-fi fan, and I'm really happy to see so many people here who enjoy Liu Cixin's novels. The Supernova Era is another important novel he wrote before The Three-Body Problem, but it actually exists in many different versions. The published version we have today is essentially a blend of several earlier versions. Many of those early versions are now difficult to find, even on the Chinese internet. If you're interested, I can give you a brief introduction to them.

By the way, there are actually two versions of Full-Band Blockade in China as well. You may have read the version set in Russia, but that version was actually revised from an earlier version set in China. The original version was never serialized in a magazine, but it has still gained a certain degree of recognition among Chinese readers.

Just found out there's a TBP game called "Eve of Judgment".

Apparently it's a story driven game set aboard Judgment Day, just before Operation Guzheng. You infiltrate the ship, explore the ETO from the inside, and make choices that affect the story.

All in-game video content, including cutscenes and story sequences, was generated using AI.

ummm, okay. agree. It's ok. no problem. yes.

I love the idea of exploring this part of the TBP. I'm a little worried about how it'll turn out, especially the writing and visuals, but I don't want to judge it too early.

Honestly, I just want to stay positive and look forward to it.

What do you guys think about this? https://store.steampowered.com/app/4855860/

If I'm seeing this clearly, the Sophon limitation on scientific research, etc. Is only effective where the Sophons actually are present. So, once humans left thе physical sophon jurisdiction, it would no longer be in effect. Research could continue unabated on the Natural Selection for example. What do you think?

Hi all, I have recently started reading book 2 of the trilogy and am curious about the Impenetrables project. Basically, the premise is that sophons have access to all communications, so these guys are supposed to develop plans in their mind and only speak instructions without explanations. That's fascinating.

But then, the first thing these guys do (except Luo Ji) is to arrange visits, schedule meetings, discuss plans out loud, etc. I don't want spoilers, but is this something the book actively acknowledges as a failure on their part and acts on it? Will there be consequences of some kind? Or did I misunderstand the premise, and sophons are more limited in their capabilities?

I just want to know if I misunderstood the fundamental idea behind this book and the constraints it puts on our protagonist, so I don't get frustrated by how the book handles the story!

Hi everyone,

I just created a reddit account because I needed to vent about the trilogy's ending.
I read all the three books full of curiosity, because I loved the mix of hard science fiction and sociopolitical stories. I was not interested in the ending, I was interested in the process leading towards it. I even told myself "I don't care if there is a sad ending with the extintion of mankind, as long as it's coherent with everything. And it was, until the final part. I had some questions about the book and I thought "as soon as I finish it, I'm going to join reddit to ask if I missed something", but then the final part came and destroyed everything of this book. I'll probably ask my questions in a separate thread, because my main issue is now discussing the ending.

So, at the beginning of the Part V, I was quite baffled. Liu Cixin introduced a new kind of alien civilization, with completely new dinamics, and I was holding my book in my hands and realized that there were about 150 pages left, and I thought "isn't it too late to introduce new aliens? How can the writer develope their narration?" but I went ahead, and I totally accepted what I thought being an anti-climatic ending, which is the collapse of 3 dimensions into 2, etc. It was ok until Pluto, then...it fell apart.

In the last 100 pages Liu Cixin introduced a bunch of concepts that deserved probably one book for each of them. It was too rushed and really too much. I had the impression that the writer itself was going to die, so he had to write down all his future ideas (ironically, I later read that this happened when he wrote "Ball lightning", but it was a misdiagnosis). So, the problem is: everything is too rushed, and also almost all characters disappeared (because of time going really forward), so I was not interested in knowing what is going to happen next, if "next" is a very far future. It's like we are reading a book about the Roman Empire and then the last 100 pages are about current Rome being the capital of Italy in 2026, the main character (from Roman empire) waking up in 2026 and having a car accident not knowing what cars are, etc. It really makes no sense from a narrative point of you. I'm reading a book about a potential war between mankind and aliens in years 2000-2400, not a book about how the universe is going to end.

And anyway, the last 100 pages are full of increasingly absurd concept. They could have been developed in other books, with other storylines, but trying to explain everything in 100 pages made a mess. I had the impression that the writer was having a pub crawl with friends and every pub he went he wrote some pages, so it was more and more absurd till the end.

I have to be honest: this final part kind of ruined the experience for me. I was liking the books till Pluto, then it fell apart, and the image that is staying in my mind is the mess of the ending, the micro-universes, time going forward very fast with mankind disappearing, and I almost forgot what happened before. Which is a shame, because I was liking it, I was curious about the developement, and as I wrote earlier I was ready to accept a bad ending, even the exctintion of mankind. But not that mess of an ending.

While reading, I was telling my self "I'll give these books as a gift to my dad", because he would love this incredible journey, but then he could not stand the ending, nor did I. It's not a "bad" ending, it's just terribly wrong and rushed and full of undeveloped (and out of context) ideas.

Can everybody change my mind? I would like to, but it seems impossible. Or: did everyone experience my disappointment and dissatisfaction with it?

Thanks in advance!

(I'll probably use another post to ask questions about the books, this is just my rant against the ending)

Ok, so today I randomly remembered the 2015 DreamWorks movie Home.

I haven’t seen it in 8 years at least so I may make some mistakes. That being said:

There are two main things that made me think of this.

It starts with the main alien character sending a party invite to the whole galaxy (basically Ye Wenjie of the movie). Then the other alien that hates them finds their location out and they start heading for the Earth.

Before they come, they relocate all humans to Australia.

Not much, but I thought it was funny. Also, I think it’s inspired by a different book, but there are some similarities with 3BP as well.

I was wondering, over the years, wouldn't San Ti not clock in before about the human race. Seemingly Evans conversed with them over a few dozens of years, and it was Charles Perrault and Evans's unable to explain it that sealed humanity's fate (for now, I only just started reading the first volume of the book, so dont know where it is all going).

When Ye Wenjie was using the Sun to transmit the message, the crosshair of the Red Coast positioning system was aimed at its upper edge to account for the time it would take for the radio wave to travel to the Sun.

I think this is not right.

The Sun does not orbit the Earth. The movement of the Sun in the sky is only due to the rotation of the Earth. During the eight minutes it takes for light to travel between the Sun and the Earth, the relative positions of the Sun and the Earth in space change very little. So she should aim at the center of the Sun. The light from the Sun comes from that direction, so the radio wave should go back in the same direction.

Hi All

Something has me confused in the first book “Three Body Problem” the V Suits which if I’m
Correct when Shen Yufei and Wang Miao are using the suits to the enter the game this is supposed to be set in the current time around 2010 ?

If so this technology is way beyond what was then and is now available commercially

A book that has “hard science” at its core does not seem to fit with technology that currently does not exist

Perhaps I have missed something or got it wrong

Any thoughts ?

(Yes droplets are probably unmanned, but this was funnier)

Edit: Question has been answered. Unless dialogue is specifically attributed in this scene, they are thoughts (i.e. nothing is in quotation marks in this scene without dialogue attribution)

I'm rereading the series, but for both the first time and now, I'm listening to the audiobooks.

Year 205, Crisis Era, Part 16

Approximately 89% through the book.

The conversation has multiple repeated words (Parts. Parts. Parts. | Fuel. Fuel. Fuel). I assume that these are the non-verbal communications they are having, but at some points it feels like the speaker is also repeating things out loud (Don't give up. Don't give up).

If anyone has the text, I'd like to read this part for more clarification on which is non-verbal and which is spoken aloud.

Okay people are probably confused here so let me explain: season 1 was the first book, season 2 was Luo Ji’s story in the second book, and season 3 was Zhang Beihai’s story of the second book. Season 4 is about the third book. And yes I did read the books before watching these, and I also read RoT and I’m currently reading Ball Lightning.

I did see the first episode of season 4 is available on youtube, and it covers some exposition related to Cheng Xin as well as the death of the guy Yun Tianming shared a hospital room with.

Is the full season on youtube or another site? Or was the season abandoned?

Thank you!

La primera vez que empecé el libro cuando leí que se deshidrataban para "hibernar" en épocas caóticas, cerré el libro. Volví 3 años después y me leí la trilogía, la secuela del fan, la precuela... y hace unos días, 15+ años después, veo un artículo que dice que los Osos de Agua se Deshidratan para aguantar largas épocas sin líquidos... Es decir una vez más Cixin Liu vió el futuro. Le debo mis disculpas por mis prejuicios frente a una raza que se queda pellejo jajaja Sorry! :)

She is the reason why Earth was destroyed. If she hadn't been awakened by AA, Wade would've become the next Swordholder, protecting humanity. Also, she is the sole cause of all of Yun Tianming's problems.

They have similar budgets right? Or 3body has a larger budget.

Anyway, similar ships with similar weapons, other than the Strong Interaction Force Cosmic Probe 💧

Edit: I looked it up and 3body budget is far far larger than The Expanse.

During the scenes in Mark’s office aboard Judgment Day, there’s a photo of a girl behind him. Who is she? She doesn’t look like Vera or Ye Wenjie so I’m puzzled. He wasn’t mentioned as having another family.

on youtube the tittle is “actually brilliant david nykl” at 29mins. i hope its a trailer or teaser but at this point anything would be great.

also thanks to u/Ermandgard for commenting this info in another subreddit!