Review: The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

As a cultural experience this book is worth the time it took me to read (or rather to listen). So I'm glad I read it. Other than that... I guess I have high standards for science fiction, especially the 'harder' versions of it. There are several interesting ideas in this book, that would be nice to explore more. There are also several ideas that I couldn't care less about, but ok. The one thing I didn't like from the very beginning, and it haunted me the whole book, is the way the author describes how scientists think. Based on what I know about scientists, they usually don't commit suicides when an experiment doesn't go as predicted. Or if the results can't be easily explained. Really, they are a bit more curious than that.

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