The Three-Body Problem
THEME: SCI-FI / CHINESE EXPERIENCE OF RANDOMNESS OF LIFE ON EARTH EXTENDED TO EVERYTHING WALKING THE DOG: That's right - 14 hours and 37 minutes of listening! I listened to it in the car on various solo journeys over the last 2 months or so. I have now found out that there are 2 more books in the (usual) trilogy. The second (The Dark Forest) is 23 hours and 11 minutes, and Audible haven't (not surprisingly) got round to the last (Death's End) yet. I was mighty glad to come across & mightily impressed by The Three-Body-Problem for (was going to be 3, turned into 7!) reasons: the main theme of the book is the same as my 3S10: The Saving Remnant http://3s10.uk/ , namely: as we humans are so fucking stupid and behave in such a bizarre (and often horrible) way what would happen if we got taken over by a 'superior' intelligence (in his case, by the Trisolarians, in my case, by AI) you can see the Chinese experience of The Cultural Revolution permeating the...
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