I'm neck deep in the final volume of Liu Cixin's sci-fi trilogy, which started with the brilliant Three Body Problem. I've been reading it as translations appeared: the first volume in Shanghai in Spring 2015, the second (The Dark Forest) traveling in China at the start of this year, and now the third. Well-written sci-fi with an unfamiliar historical horizon is not a bad way to stay sane at this time where the imagination can't keep up with immanent future possibilities.Friday, December 30, 2016
Refuge from the dark forest
I'm neck deep in the final volume of Liu Cixin's sci-fi trilogy, which started with the brilliant Three Body Problem. I've been reading it as translations appeared: the first volume in Shanghai in Spring 2015, the second (The Dark Forest) traveling in China at the start of this year, and now the third. Well-written sci-fi with an unfamiliar historical horizon is not a bad way to stay sane at this time where the imagination can't keep up with immanent future possibilities.