The Three-Body Problem
She didn’t find him unpleasant, but her heart was like ashes from which the flame of love could no longer be lit.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Bolshevik
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
He felt a strange, perverse, immense presence that could never be understood by human intellect.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
parity.”
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Everyone likes to reminisce, but no one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.
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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