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The Three-Body Problem
- Narrateur(s): Luke Daniels
- Série: The Three-Body Problem Series, Livre 1
- Durée: 13 h et 26 min
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- Catégories: Littérature et fiction, Fiction de genre
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The Dark Forest
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrateur(s): P. J. Ochlan
- Durée: 22 h et 36 min
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This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy.
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Great book let down by a poor performance
- Écrit par Sarah le 2017-11-27
Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Autres
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Death's End
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrateur(s): P. J. Ochlan
- Durée: 28 h et 51 min
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to coexist peacefully as equals, without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
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such a great story
- Écrit par A. Rahmani le 2018-08-12
Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Autres
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The Redemption of Time
- A Three-Body Problem Novel
- Auteur(s): Baoshu, Ken Liu - Translator
- Narrateur(s): P. J. Ochlan
- Durée: 10 h et 12 min
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In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction.
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Fanfiction
- Écrit par Kyle O'Connor le 2022-01-05
Auteur(s): Baoshu, Autres
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Ball Lightning
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 12 h et 12 min
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When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of the mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of a new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen’s quest provides a purpose for his life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own.
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Good story, but...
- Écrit par Niki Techen le 2019-04-08
Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Autres
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Hyperion
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Autres
- Durée: 20 h et 44 min
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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Simmons is a complete hack
- Écrit par FuzzyThoughts le 2021-04-14
Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
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Children of Time
- Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrateur(s): Mel Hudson
- Durée: 16 h et 31 min
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Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.
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SF masterwork in the style of Brin or Vinge
- Écrit par Blythe le 2018-09-16
Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The Dark Forest
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrateur(s): P. J. Ochlan
- Durée: 22 h et 36 min
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This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy.
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Great book let down by a poor performance
- Écrit par Sarah le 2017-11-27
Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Autres
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Death's End
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Ken Liu - translator
- Narrateur(s): P. J. Ochlan
- Durée: 28 h et 51 min
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to coexist peacefully as equals, without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
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such a great story
- Écrit par A. Rahmani le 2018-08-12
Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Autres
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The Redemption of Time
- A Three-Body Problem Novel
- Auteur(s): Baoshu, Ken Liu - Translator
- Narrateur(s): P. J. Ochlan
- Durée: 10 h et 12 min
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In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction.
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Fanfiction
- Écrit par Kyle O'Connor le 2022-01-05
Auteur(s): Baoshu, Autres
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Ball Lightning
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 12 h et 12 min
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When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of the mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of a new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen’s quest provides a purpose for his life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own.
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Good story, but...
- Écrit par Niki Techen le 2019-04-08
Auteur(s): Cixin Liu, Autres
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Hyperion
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Autres
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.
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Simmons is a complete hack
- Écrit par FuzzyThoughts le 2021-04-14
Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
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Children of Time
- Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrateur(s): Mel Hudson
- Durée: 16 h et 31 min
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Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.
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SF masterwork in the style of Brin or Vinge
- Écrit par Blythe le 2018-09-16
Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Project Hail Mary
- Auteur(s): Andy Weir
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 16 h et 10 min
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Riveting Story!
- Écrit par Maggie Irwin le 2021-05-10
Auteur(s): Andy Weir
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The Fall of Hyperion
- Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
- Narrateur(s): Victor Bevine
- Durée: 21 h et 45 min
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In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.
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Hate when they do this...
- Écrit par John E le 2021-04-17
Auteur(s): Dan Simmons
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Children of Ruin
- Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrateur(s): Mel Hudson
- Durée: 15 h et 25 min
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Thousands of years ago, Earth’s terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity’s great empire fell, and the program’s decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it’s been waiting for them.
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Fantastic sequel to "Children of Time"
- Écrit par Blythe le 2019-08-18
Auteur(s): Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Foundation (Apple Series Tie-in Edition)
- Auteur(s): Isaac Asimov
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 8 h et 37 min
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For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
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Timeless politics
- Écrit par D. Urquhart le 2019-06-17
Auteur(s): Isaac Asimov
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Neuromancer
- Auteur(s): William Gibson
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.
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Narration was dreadful, book was excellent.
- Écrit par WarriorsDawn le 2018-12-06
Auteur(s): William Gibson
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Dune
- Auteur(s): Frank Herbert
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Autres
- Durée: 21 h et 2 min
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Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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Great story... but inconsistent voices?
- Écrit par KT_TO le 2018-01-11
Auteur(s): Frank Herbert
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The Forever War
- Auteur(s): Joe Haldeman
- Narrateur(s): George Wilson
- Durée: 9 h et 18 min
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William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?
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Definitely your grandfathers sci-fi novel
- Écrit par Warren Reis le 2021-07-22
Auteur(s): Joe Haldeman
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Revelation Space
- Auteur(s): Alastair Reynolds
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 22 h et 12 min
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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
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The Revelation Space universe rocked my world
- Écrit par Ryan Healey le 2018-09-14
Auteur(s): Alastair Reynolds
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Dune Messiah
- Auteur(s): Frank Herbert
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, Autres
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?
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Not Sure
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-11-21
Auteur(s): Frank Herbert
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The Player of Games
- Culture Series, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Iain M. Banks
- Narrateur(s): Peter Kenny
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The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
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Unlikeable characters
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Leviathan Wakes
- Auteur(s): James S. A. Corey
- Narrateur(s): Jefferson Mays
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From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt.
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A Worthwhile Series
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Auteur(s): James S. A. Corey
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Artemis
- Auteur(s): Andy Weir
- Narrateur(s): Rosario Dawson
- Durée: 8 h et 57 min
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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Not much to see here.
- Écrit par C. Scott le 2018-04-13
Auteur(s): Andy Weir
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“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” (Wall Street Journal)
The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy:
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Other books:
Ball Lightning Supernova Era
To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)
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- Zyn ski
- 2020-12-29
Hyped by CCP
The book is alright. It drags in sections, the introduction served no purpose, and it uses a lot of math to sound smart but just sounds like a textbook. The author wrote better when using more fantastical imagery and stuck to concepts.
My guess is the 'raving' reviews were paid for by a propaganda department. This is competent but it's no Asimov.
Where this book does shine though is the voice actor's performance. He's why I eventually finished the book.
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- Iris
- 2020-10-18
struggled to finish..
Interesting premise, far too verbose to be engaging. Luke Daniels' butchering of names was distracting.
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- Chris Conrod
- 2020-09-14
Very interesting read
I picked this up because I heard a lot of great things about this book. I was surprised with the story and it really engaged me throughout. The science can be a bit much but it really doesn't take anything away from the story.
The voice acting is fine, doing an excellent with all the foreign names.
I will certainly be continuing with this series.
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- Roy Pat
- 2019-09-18
Great book, narrator should learn pronunciation
Excellent story and book; however the narrator was butchering many of the names and the pronunciation of anglicized Chinese words.
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- David
- 2019-04-20
No problems with The Three-Body Problem.
Thoroughly enjoyed the three body problem it's view on society and alien culture was refreshing coming from a non-western ideal.
Luke Daniels precise and clear read was very enjoyable. I do feel the one of the few things that could have made this better was having the female narration for the female-driven parts of the book would have increased it's relatability.
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- Erik Colonval
- 2022-01-17
Meh.
Narrarator did a great job, the story was too childish for me and did not feel connected to the story or any of the unbelievable characters. There were some interesting thoughts and concepts peppered throughout, but not enough to redeem or recommend to a friend.
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- Ryan Paton
- 2021-12-11
weird but good
this is a really weird book but I like it... it has everything you could want. nerdy science, authoritarian militant government, aliens... everything!!!
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- gareth machin
- 2021-11-01
tried to like it..
struggled to finish. came here from project hail mary.. very disappointing, slow start. under delivers.
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- Rp
- 2021-10-18
Not sure how this won any awards...
The story was not engaging something was lost in translation or didn't translate well. Seemed like thin characters with a disjointed story, I just couldn't get into it.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2021-08-03
Why do people think this is a good book?
The characters are thin, the story happens with no explanation or expectation. Why does the main character get so invested in the video game? There’s no reason just like many parts of the plot in this novel…it just is unbelievable.
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- Jeff Koeppen
- 2020-06-06
Harder Science Fiction Than I Could Handle
I'm a fan of hard science fiction. I knew only of the basic concept of the novel, which sounded interesting, and saw that it was narrated by Luke Daniels who always does a great job. This was translated from Chinese by well-known science fiction author Ken Liu and won the 2015 Hugo Award. I had high hopes going in.
I thought the book started out strong. The novel's beginning is set back in the Chinese Cultural Revolution and is fittingly dark and full of some neat Cold War era science. As the book progresses, the science becomes increasingly more complex and hard to follow, and caused me to tune out for long stretches at a time as my brain numbed. It was incomprehensible to the point where I just didn't care anymore.
There is a video game which plays a major role in the plot which also lost me. Called "Three Body" it was a kind of virtual reality game in which scientists try to solve problems for a world with three suns. I found the video game play to be annoying as it made no sense to me and was too long.
Towards the end, the plot finally began to appeal to me and hold my interest, and the finale had me considering reading the next book in the trilogy. But since I found most of the book to be confusing and/or uninteresting I'll probably pass. I don't want to take another chance. I really wanted to like this but I'm in the very small minority of those who did not.
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- alicia garcia
- 2018-05-06
Epic trilogy is one of my all time favorite SciFis
The scope of this series is incredible and makes you feel smaller in the universe with each book you read. Mindblowing sci fi concepts that are well researched. some reviewers say charecter development is 'flat' but the author makes up for it with great imagery and imagination. Great almost seemless translation into english and i like this narrorator better than the one for the 2nd and 3rd book
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- Aaron Bailey
- 2019-06-04
High sci-fi from a stunted soul
It takes a grim, Nietzschen view of humanity from China’s grim past, and extends it to the stars. Definitely clever and visionary, dealing intelligently with big themes and big time scales, but also morally ignorant and fundamentally hopeless. Christianity gets a one-line write off as too human-centric to be worthwhile, but the story then finds nothing else worthwhile either. Interesting, but unpleasant.
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- Mr. Andre
- 2018-11-02
Astonishingly bad, tremendously stupid
This book felt more like the work of an ambitious 8th grade creative writing class than an actual, celebrated and successful work of science fiction. The characters are entirely unengaging and flat with one exception, and he is cartoonishly one-dimensional.
The fundamental plot of the book is laughably stupid -- that scientists would start committing suicide when they get unpredicted results from their experiments. It gives the overall impression that the author simply went back and forth between their draft and wikipedia articles on particle physics and tried to force some exposition in along the way.
The dialogue is terrible, and like another reviewer said, a C- grade for show-don't-tell as the author regularly just delivers important aspects of the story development in a matter of fact sort of -also this happened-. On more than one occasion key information is literally delivered in block letters in a video game.
And speaking of the video game, it is the stupidest, most poorly conceived idea for an engaging game. The author tries an "emperor with no clothes" conceit by saying that only intellectuals and elites really got into the game... no, there is no game and the idea is stupid and resonates with several open-world, high-brow MMPORGs that failed miserably.
I could really keep going and going but I've already spent more time than I should on this. I picked up this book because it was on President Obama's reading list and he was effusive in his praise of the book. Now I wish I had never voted for the guy because anybody who would recommend this book [insert nasty comment here]. I only listened to the whole thing because I couldn't return it.
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- K
- 2018-06-23
The science blew my mind!
This story takes time to reveal its gems and when it does it is totally worth your investment. The science made my brain hurt in the best way possible. Asimov would have wished he wrote this. Getting the second book right now.
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- Josh P
- 2014-12-07
They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
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It's very difficult to describe this book. It's reminds me of the book "Spin" by Robert Wilson. It takes many strange science related events and use many characters smaller stories to relate these events, which in the end add up to something big and sinister going on. This book was apparently translated from Mandarin to English. I am 1/2 chinese, growing up up in America but my family spoke Hakka do I can't really say how well the translation is done. I will say that if I wasn't told it was translated, I would have assumed it was originally written in English by someone with a Mandarin background.
While reading, I had to do a lot of searching on Wikipedia as large portions of the story occurs during the 1960 - 1980's. I personally did not know much about the cultural revolution, youth red guard, or the period known as the Great Leap Forward, and other things that occurred in China during that time but this book made me want to find out. I don't think you have too do a lot of research to enjoy the story, for example if you don't know what a "Struggle Session" is (I didnt), the story gives you enough information to infer what it is. Though if you do a little research I personally think you will enjoy it a lot more.
The other portion of the book takes place in a modern to slightly futuristic setting. Say a state that the world could theoretically reach in the next 10 years. During this period, strange this are happening in the areas of science both in academia and industrial application. These strange things almost seem to have a supernatural force causing/guiding them from the background. To unravel the mystery a bunch of smaller stories of these strange occurrence are told from multiple characters and eventually they are slowly linked up to help you get a larger understanding.
I wish I could describe it better but like I said the closest book I've read to this type of story telling is "Spin" by Robert Wilson. The book is a little slow so I'd suggest trying to get a least 2 hours in before you decide whether you like it or not.
Luke Daniels does a great job narrating. I actually liked the fact that he didn't use a lot of Chinese accents when reading. As the bulk of the characters are Chinese and they are supposed to be speaking Mandarin, Mr. Daniels just chooses to to different voices with no accents. Rough throaty voice voice for the hard boiled detective, soft we'll spoken voice for the academic professor, nonchalant blasé voice for the lazy uncaring stay at home husband. It works well.
Two personal things I really enjoyed about this book is if you were heavy into math or science in college, this will probably trigger some memories. I learned both assembly and machine code in college and as I stated in the reviews title, there is a scene where they create a human computer using a 30 million man Chinese army holding flags to represent or/x-or, and/n-and gates. I pretty much died laughing during that scene. Wish my college professor would have made us do that when I took the class. Would've made understanding logic gates and transistors so much easier. Also this is the first book I think I've read where China, the U.S., and U.K. are all on the same side working together. While the book does show the differences in ideological views between the east and west and doesn't try to hide past and modern animosity, it does portray a situation where the governments recognize their differences and are able to work past them due to a larger issue being at stake. It was really nice to not have the stereotype of the eastern block as being the enemies. It was pretty cool for the author to imagine what could be done if east and west were able to work together as allies and equals.
Apparently this book is the first of a trilogy and I believe while all 3 books are complete only the 1st book has been translated to English. I believe the 2nd book is being translated now for written release but no word yet on a audio release. If you enjoy the book like I did please send audible a content request for the remainder of the series.
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- pondo
- 2017-08-27
WOW! Even after being translated to English
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Thank You Liu. The journey opened my mind to some prior incomprehensible concepts. Would recommend to anyone who likes to push the boundaries of what physical reality can be.
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- DarthVal
- 2016-03-11
Hard science fiction
This is one of those science fiction stories for which the SCIENCE should be capitalized. It is definitely hard science fiction. In fact, the science can bog the story down at times, just a bit, but not enough to detract from what is an amazing story.
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- Darryl
- 2017-02-20
didn't blow me away
I dip now and then into the supposed SF masterpieces of the new writers, and often I'm disappointed. This is all the rage at the moment, and while it was good and had some interesting ideas and is no doubt well researched, I found myself listening just for the plot and ideas; I didn't connect with any of the characters really. I think again this shows a fundamental problem with current writers of SF and other genres, but especially SF, where the science and ideas are the story, and the writing is at times atrocious (not here) and the characters and human-ness and individuality are at best secondary. Maybe much is lost in translation, I'm willing to concede that possibility. There are some nice moments and writing and imagery here, but over shadowed by plot. There are many references to SF writers (Clarke Asimov) and novels (Fountains of Paradise, Foundation) along the way which was fun in an easter egg type of way.
I'm probably not that helpful here as I don't want to spoil it for anyone. Basically there is a bit of a 1984 style opening; there is a Contact type of plot; there is a Gibson-esque virtual reality game element (which normally leaves me cold but worked along with the story to reveal important ideas); there is a bit of a Crichton use of science element which I liked very much. In all there are enough story elements to keep you interested as it shuttles about, I just wish I had been able to attach to the characters better. It may be that part of the trouble for me was that many names sound similar (not being racist here) and our unfamiliarity with Chinese names hinders english speakers a bit. A couple of times a name is given and someone mentions what the name means in Chinese; it may be that all of the names mean something we're unaware of and for Chinese speakers this helps to delineate who is who.
I did go on to the 2nd one, Dark Forest, but may not 3rd.
Again, I like very much the ideas and science and plot and the logical thought processes and the philosophical and buddhist pondering; if I could have really gotten attached to a character I might have given it 5 stars.
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- Tango
- 2015-03-17
Not in love, but definitely intrigued
No science fiction works without a great plot/concept driving it and The Three-Body Problem has zero problem on that score - an experiment, done out of a kind of desperation, actually results in first contact with an interstellar alien community and sets up a pending crisis. But even a great concept still needs good characters, setting, and fluid writing to make for a great sci-fi read.
I didn't have much trouble with setting. This first book of a trilogy draws on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, past and current geopolitics, and current and theoretical quantum physics to set the stage for the saga - interesting, with plenty of potential to sustain the trilogy. My only quibble with the setting used was with the sequences that take place within an on-line game. It is in the game that characters attempt to resolve the Three Body Problem and I found those segments of the book to be rather dull and confusing. No doubt some of the information in those sections will come into play in later books, but they read like bad dream sequences where you don't have any context to make sense of what is going on. And, there is no plot or character development happening during those passages so I just wasn't engaged during those sections.
The flow of the writing feels a bit choppy, but I would chalk that up to the fact that this is a translation. The translation seems pretty good in that the meaning is clear, but English and Chinese are such very different languages there is bound to be some loss of fluidity. Ultimately, my biggest difficulty with The Three-Body Problem is the characters. The book starts with Ye Wenjie during the Cultural Revolution and she is a very interesting character throughout the book and the only character that is ever really fleshed out. Much of the book is from the POV of Wang Miao, a character that gets little back story and is hard to connect with, and none of the other characters is more than sketched. The Aliens may have some potential in the sequels, but ruthlessness is about the only characteristic they show in this first book.
Luke Daniels does his normal phenomenal job of creating great character voices which is a huge help with a book with unfamiliar names and he adds much to making this a good listen.
Bottom line, The Three-Body Problem is challenging, but intriguing and I will listen to the sequels when Audible has them available.
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