The Three-Body Problem
When she learned programming in college, the source code was always written on the grids of special programming paper, then transferred to paper tape using a typewriter.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
“But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
from Nature’s perspective, their use was indistinguishable from the Cultural Revolution, and equally destructive to our world. If this was so, then how many other acts of humankind that had seemed normal or even righteous were, in reality, evil?
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the
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lackadaisical
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
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Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
pacifism.