El problema de los tres cuerpos

, #1

450 pages

Spanish language

Published Oct. 28, 2016 by Ediciones B.

ISBN:
978-84-666-5973-4
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4 stars (6 reviews)

Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society receives these messages and makes plans to invade Earth.

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reviewed The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Triology, #1)

Good, but watch out - sets up trilogy

5 stars

The first few chapters had me darting to and from Wikipedia to help add some context to a story that is deeply set in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It',s a triviality to call the story complex, a mystery than unfolds through the book. Be warned this is the first in a trilogy and a very much sets itself up this way, which was a little frustrating in the last few chapters.

Review of 'The Three-Body Problem' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Entertaining, but mostly in the build up and in the present day -- for a while I thought it was going to be a Chinese version of M. John Harrison's Light, but instead it went into Greg Egan / Robert L. Forward territory with an unconvincing sidebar into a VR game.

Also, the premise is ridiculous. The trisolarans are as close as Alpha Centauri, but they don't see the solar system as an inherently safer place to be anyway? They have the technology to encode data into protons and launch an invasion fleet, but don't have the foresight to go to literally any other star that isn't exploding, nor use their incredible power over subatomic particles to correct their world? Why don't they send protons into their suns? Why don't they twig that the protons can work when in building it, they HAVE IT WRAP THEIR ENTIRE PLANET AND ABSORB …