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It's actually called the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu. It's apparently pretty big in China. But I've kept myself pretty ignorant about what it's about because I want to be surprised.
Here's the Amazon page with a description for the first book.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032
That's actually mentioned on the 2nd book The Dark Forest in the The 3 Body Problem series and talks about why we haven't found any life. Spoiler alert ..... >! They don't want to be found, nobody does! Imagine being In a dark forest where's predators all around some even more powerful than you, when you send a signal into space like we did, it's like turning on a lighter and letting everyone see where you are. Some alien civilizations go as far as build black holes around their stars so when more powerful civilizations point towards them, they see nothing !<
Read The 3 Body Problem by Cixin Liu for a similar story line. Except it's not 100 million years but our nearest star 3-4 light years away. It's one of my best sci-fi books and would so recommend anyone to read it.
It's a really good book and one of the only books I've ever read that completely changed my perspective on an issue, this one being trying to reach out to another intelligent species. It's a unique perspective on sci-fi coming from a Chinese author, and reading it was definitely a unique experience. I do have some problems with the logic he follows but that didn't make it unenjoyable or not thought-provoking.
It's not verbatim, but inspired by the atmosphere of a science fiction series called the Remembrance of Earth's Past, from the Hugo-Award-Winning Chinese author Cixin Liu. The first book is <em>The Three Body Problem.</em>
Thanks mate! Although, the first one isn't available to buy ��
Edit: I lied, I found it just had to search it again
Double Edit: Ordered it!
I'll start us off.
If you're into science fiction, do yourself a favor and read the three book series that starts with The Three Body Problem. Fucking mindblowing. I don't recommend reading the whole description/overview. Just know it's an awesome book and jump in.
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If you like Arrival (which you should!), I highly, HIGHLY recommend reading the book series 'The Three Body Problem'.
The first book in the series won The Hugo Award for best sci-fi novel last year, and balances so many things well, like the Cultural Revolution, exploration, sociology, SETI, and hard sci-fi. Very original and unpredictable.
Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/
Not sure about scifi movies, but there's a book, The Three Body Problem that has won the Hugo award. The title refers to the famous three-body problem in physics, which is known for having no closed-form general solution. People around this sub generally agree that the original Chinese version is better than the translation, no surprise there; but many English readers I've asked say they still liked the translation. It also has 2 sequels, so it's a trilogy really. And they're coming out with a film adaptation next year.
Yeah, it's the third book in the series that starts with the Three Body Problem (https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475366256&sr=8-1&keywords=three+body+problem) but it has such an insanely huge scope as compared to the first two books.
Seriously though, read the book. It's the best sci fi I've read since Contact. Thrilling, unique, and very educational.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/
The Three Body Problem, great trilogy!
from today's Washington Post:
Perspective | We need to talk about UFOs again
By Daniel W. Drezner Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.
The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has probably written close to 2,000 columns since coming to The Washington Post. Among those that generated a steady stream of responses was one from 2019 headlined “UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact.” That column did not say that aliens have visited Earth. Among the things it did say was that there literally are objects flying around that no one, including U.S. Navy pilots, can identify, and we have to puzzle out what that means.
In the two years since that column appeared, the U.S. government continues to tiptoe toward the normalization of the idea of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Last year the Department of Defense released three videos (one recorded in 2004 and the other two in 2015) of U.S. Navy pilots seeing something and having no idea what it was. In its news release, the Pentagon said, “the aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified,’” putting the U in UFO.
The Pentagon went further in August 2020, announcing the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force. Beyond developing a new abbreviation that is less loaded than UFO, the Pentagon explained, “The mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.”
Then, 10 days ago, former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe went on Fox News and made a whole bunch of claims about what the U.S. intelligence community knew about UAPs, including that a Pentagon report would soon be released revealing even more information. According to the New York Post’s Tamar Lapin and Jackie Salo:
>“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” he told host Maria Bartiromo. “Some of those have been declassified.”
“And when we talk about sightings,” Ratcliffe continued, “we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain.”
“Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
Still, it would appear that in June there will be an official U.S. government report acknowledging the existence of UFOs or UAPs or whatever you want to call them.
It is increasingly respectable to acknowledge that unidentified aerial phenomena are a thing. But this leads to a few follow-up questions. Does this evidence point toward the prospect of extraterrestrial observation of our planet? If so, how should we feel about that?
I am not going to speculate on the first question beyond noting that if Harvard astrophysicists are making that suggestion about interstellar phenomena, perhaps we need at least to consider the possibility that these UAPs might also be extraterrestrial in origin.
The more interesting question is how we should respond to this. There has been increasing apprehension on the part of some very smart people about contacting extraterrestrials. In 2010, Stephen Hawking told the Discovery Channel, “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” Similarly, physicist Mark Buchanan argued in 2016, “Any civilization detecting our presence is likely to be technologically very advanced, and may not be disposed to treat us nicely. At the very least, the idea seems morally questionable.”
If UAPs are extraterrestrials, however, this is a different scenario: It is not humans contacting extraterrestrials but rather those extraterrestrials actively observing us. Furthermore, they seem to be doing so in a way that is not destructive.
That is promising! Observation without the intent to destroy suggests a civilization that is much less violent than, say, Spanish conquistadors.
Furthermore, it might be better for U.S. national security if these UAPs turn out to be ETs. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the New York Post, “Frankly, that if it’s something from outside this planet — that might actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some technological leap on behalf of the Chinese or the Russians or some other adversary that allows them to conduct this activity.”
I get the concern from physicists that technologically advanced extraterrestrials might behave as powerful human civilizations have in the past. But maybe the concerned physicists should engage a little more with social scientists. The assumption is that powerful, technologically advanced civilizations will act in a destructive manner. That is possible, but perhaps civilizations that reward destructive entrepreneurship are less likely to generate the technological wherewithal for interstellar travel. And if those UAPs are ETs, maybe there is more hope for interstellar relations than either scientists or science fiction envision.
Helps if I spell the name correctly 🤦♂️
Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
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Ah that one doesn’t really give a review
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032
It is indeed a book
Here's a link with some reviews:
Be warned though that it is the first part of a trilogy.
I read a very interesting Atlantic article that led me to a really great sci-fi series by author Cixin Liu. The first book is called The Three Body Problem and I'm just about finished with it. I purchased all three after I read this article and also read that Obama read them and asked the publisher for the third one in advance. It's a dark story (so far) and explores humanity and our actions and I won't say very much more. I highly, highly recommend it if you're into serious science fiction.
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I read some science fiction. The good science fiction from the West is from the past, of course, since Western culture is no longer capable of producing anything good. But this recent Chinese book isn't bad: The Three-Body Problem
"The Selfish Gene" is a good book, written before Dawkins went insane. I referred to it in this post of mine:
It is somewhat hard SF and not Japanese, but I recently enjoyed The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
You might want to read The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. This series provides some interesting thoughts on your question.
Yeh, I'm currently reading something you'd like https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032
And make sure not to confuse it with the award-winning Chinese science fiction novel of the same name
The Three-Body Problem od nekog kineza, ako neko voli znanstvenu fantastiku, toplo preporučam.
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