#cixin-liu — Public Fediverse posts

I've read the story and watched the movie "The Wandering Earth" a few times and enjoyed it emotionally, but when I first heard about it I had hopes that the celestial mechanics for moving the earth would be like "A World Out of Time" by Larry Niven.

Let me explain. In Niven's book "the state" turns the planet Uranus into a rocket that is powered by part of its atmosphere which enabling the gas giant to be used as gravitational space tug and a more gentle means to pull the earth out of orbit.

So this celestial mechanics concept would in "The Wander Earth" scenario shepard the Earth on its multi-generation interstellar trip to a new star system.

Let me add that with Niven's concept the earth's rotation never need be stopped, both planets make the trip together, with Uranus being cannibalized for motive power and other resources during the journey. Even if you don't read the book, I would love to hear your thoughts about Niven's idea.

The Wandering Earth by #CixinLiu #SciFi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZCBIkTLnTg&t=329s

Not to criticisixe #CixinLiu and his #threebodyproblem book, but I must say that if I were #writing a #fanfic, I would have written a fifth #wallgazer, made them an #ENBY or #Transwoman, and had them fire up a vast army of hackers and saboteurs to fuck with the Sofons.

It wouldn't solve the problem or defeat the #Trisolarans, but it would have given them 400 years of frustration, misery, and heartburn, and messed with their technology enough to make the as-written ending a relief to them

Ultimate Guide to Three Body Problem
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IrCxmDl2o84&si=S1aFc-x8MhS-pmEC

I highly recommend reading or listening to the whole #RemembranceOfEarthsPast trilogy by #cixinliu and THEN watching this video series that summarizes it all perfectly with graphics. Too many spoilers to watch this first but it brings it all together perfectly.

#sciencefiction

Is een leuk boek. Leest ook wel lekker weg. #CixinLiu #LiuCixin #TheThreeBodyProblem

Challenge accepted 🥰

#trisolaris #LiuCixin #cixinliu

Currently reading the three body problem, and wow. It’s really good. Spoiler free comments:

1. I am viscerally aware of the horror of the cultural revolution
2. Cixin Liu is a ginormous nerd <3
3. I wish these annoying characters weren’t so realistic

Qualche pagina de "La Materia del Cosmo", secondo volume de "Il Problema dei Tre Corpi" in cui c'è qualche tinta cyberpunk, fra carta igienica che trasmette pubblicità e virus informatici che fanno i sicari.

#LaMateriaDelCosmo #IlProblemaDeiTreCorpi #CixinLiu #SciFi #Cyberpunk

"El final de la muerte" ha sido un viaje alucinante. No solo cierra la trilogía y toda la historia, avanzando a través de los siglos, iniciada en #elproblemadelostrescuerpos, sino que para mí es el mejor libro de los tres. Con sucesos y consecuencias nada esperadas, y te tiene enganchado queriendo avanzar más.

Menuda historia se ha sacado de la cabeza Cixin Liu, de lo mejor que he leído en #cienciaficcion en los últimos años.

#bookstodon #libros #scifi #cixinliu

#BookReview: Supernova Era by #CixinLiu. I'm thinking of reviewing books from time to time. #ScienceFiction https://jonldavis.net/blog/book-review-supernova-era-by-cixin-liu/

#eydc2024
Day 14: An adaptation I watched

Hands down the most fascinating and cerebral sci Fi I have watched.

#ThreeBody #cixinliu #Cdrama #Cdramas #Scifi

https://dramatea88.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/three-body-chinese-tv-adaptation-a-review/

‘Ball Lightning’ Soars High And Falls Short

Ball Lightning (2005) by Cixin Liu and translated by Joel Martinsen is good. It’s really good. For the first two-thirds. Unfortunately Ball Lightning changes tack and loses steam in the last third. Fortunately, though, Cixin Liu builds up enough momentum to carry the story to completion.

Chen is not your typical scientist. Traumatised as a child Chen has turned that trauma into an obsession. An obsession with finding and understanding ball lightning. Maybe then he can put his parents’ ghosts to rest.

But Chen is not alone in his obsession. The beautiful Lin Yun also wants to understand ball lightning. But for reasons entirely her own. And the too brilliant physicist Ding Yi doesn’t care about ball lightning at all except that it’s another problem for him to solve.

Working together the three sees ball lightning as the answer but to three completely different questions. With the spectre of war looming the leaders of China are impatient for results. Ding Yi, Lin Yun, and Chen could lead the world into a bright new future or end it entirely.

Ball Lightning immediately grabs the reader and sweeps them up in a world of scientific mystery. Cixin Liu poses many questions revolving around one principle question; what is ball lightning? The story revolves around Chen trying to answer this and many other questions.

If this sounds dull, I assure you Cixin Liu does not make it dull. Cixin Liu plots a story that shines a romantic light on the struggle for understanding in science. Cixin Liu makes that struggle as thrilling as any two-fisted fight for survival found anywhere else. And he does so without unnecessary technical details or dumbing down relevant concepts. Cixin Liu respects the reader enough to treat them as equals to the geniuses he writes about.

One of Cixin Liu’s great talents is to bring his characters to life with immediately relatable feelings and motivations. He does so without needing to belabour any pointless minutiae. Cixin Liu has an almost magical ability paint his characters with only a few deft strokes to reveal what we know to be there.

Ball Lightning layers mystery, intrigue, and tension as the story progresses. Chen’s story becomes our story as he and his team travel the world seeking the answer to ball lightning. But Cixin understands that no path to enlightenment is straight and that the ultimate answers may not be to our liking. This element of uncertainty remains with Chen which only strengthens his sympathetic qualities.

What becomes frustrating, however, is in the final third of the book. For the first two-thirds Chen has been the narrator and main protagonist. For some reason Cixin Liu changes style completely and Chen is only a passive observer, content to have the rest of the story related to him. It’s a big letdown to invest in a character only to have them have no influence on the ending.

That said, even though Chen becomes irrelevant as a character the story does coast to an okay ending. In the last third the story becomes more of a philosophical treatise. Like much of Philip K. Dick’s work, questions about reality and death become the focus. You might not agree with Cixin Liu’s answers but they are interesting nonetheless.

Ball Lightning is a difficult book to classify. It could be classified as hard SF but I think scientific thriller would be more apt. This is because Cixin Liu takes almost no liberties with science that even hard SF must do sometimes.

If you like stories about math, physics, philosophy, and meteorology then Ball Lightning will not disappoint. Don’t read Ball Lightning for the destination but read it for the journey. It’s one that inevitably leads to The Three-Body Problem and a greater appreciation of this great author.

#BallLightning #BookReview #CixinLiu

Heute habe ich das vom WDR und NDR produzierte Hörspiel von Liu Cixin, Die drei Sonnen, zu Ende gehört. Wirklich toll, und frei in der ARD Audiothek verfügbar, ebenso wie die zwei Folgebände der Trisolaris-Trilogie!

#scifi #books #buch #bookstodon #sciencefiction
#cixinliu

https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sammlung/cixin-liu-die-drei-sonnen/Die-drei-Sonnen-100/

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Es curioso que el personaje de Wade en la Trilogía de los #TresCuerpos es estadounidense, pero esa pulsión de "avanzar a toda costa" me parece muy china. En concreto Wade se parece bastante a Mao, con su Larga Marcha y su Gran Salto hacia Adelante. Los dirigentes posteriores a Mao también fueron muy de avanzar a tope, quizás no "a toda costa", pero casi.

Quizás #CixinLiu tenía ese modelo en mente.

#cienciaficcion
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