2017 (47) 2018 (40) 21st century (57) aliens (200) anthology (185) audiobook (79) China (478) Chinese (185) Chinese literature (220) Cultural Revolution (71) currently-reading (76) ebook (309) fantasy (75) fiction (1,082) first contact (137) goodreads (129) goodreads import (47) hard sf (78) Kindle (240) library (44) literature (42) novel (164) owned (61) physics (73) read (156) read in 2017 (44) Remembrance of Earth's Past (49) science fiction (2,982) Science Fiction/Fantasy (78) series (75) sf (376) sff (104) short stories (222) signed (44) space opera (53) speculative fiction (87) to-read (2,115) translated (125) translation (153) unread (74)

Tradução de etiquetas em vigor

Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão: 劉慈欣
Nome de batismo: 劉慈欣
Outros nomes: 刘慈欣
Data de nascimento: 1963-06-23
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: China
País (para mapa): China
Local de nascimento: Henan, China
Locais de residência: Beijing, China
Shanxi, China
Educação: North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power
Ocupação: science fiction writer
power plant computer engineer
Organizações: Beijing Guomi Digital Technology
Pequena biografia: Liu Cixin, born in June 1963, is a representative of the new generation of Chinese science fiction authors and recognized as a leading voice in Chinese science fiction. He was awarded the China Galaxy Science Fiction Award for eight consecutive years, from 1999 to 2006 and again in 2010. His representative work The Three-body Problem is the BEST STORY of 2015 Hugo Awards, the 3rd of 2015 Campbell Award finalists, and nominee of 2015 Nebulas Award.

His works have received wide acclaim on account of their powerful atmosphere and brilliant imagination. Liu Cixin's stories successfully combine the exceedingly ephemeral with hard reality, all the while focussing on revealing the essence and aesthetics of science. He has endeavoured to create a distinctly Chinese style of science fiction. Liu Cixin is a member of the China Writers' Association and the Shanxi Writers' Association.

Membros

Discussions

Jeff's 2019 Reads em The Green Dragon (Abril 2021)

Resenhas

Kugelblitz: Roman de Cixin Liu

Das Buch startet wirklich seeehr langsam. Erst etwa ab der Hälfte nimmt es Fahrt auf, ab da hat es mich dann aber auch echt gepackt. 3,5 Sterne

Marcado

Katzenkindliest | outras 26 resenhas | Apr 23, 2024 |

La esfera luminosa (Spanish Edition) de Cixin Liu

Imaginative and compelling all the way through. It’s nowhere near as epic in scope as the three body problem, and I’d always recommend people read that series first, but this is well-imagined hard SF for people who enjoy the writer’s style. Overall, its not a great novel, with underdeveloped characters, somewhat forced interpersonal relationships, and science that is a bit too farfetched, but it’s still a fun read.

Marcado

mrbearbooks | outras 26 resenhas | Apr 22, 2024 |

Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series, 3) de Cixin Liu

To some extent, there's no valid rating for this book aside from 5. If you've come this far, then you won't be disappointed with this book, because it achieves something that is by all rights impossible: a succinct and tidy ending to a series whose scale is quite literally the universe, and whose level of detail extends well beyond the limits of human science.

That said, unlike other books in this series, it was clear when things were beyond the realm of possible, even in the sense of being not "internally consistent" with previously described features of this world (in previous books, the scale of science was "closer" to human science, and so to a non-hard-scientist like me, it wasn't easy to discern things that were "obviously impossible," though I have no doubts that a scientist may find a few holes in previous novels. Probably no more than they find in published papers!). It doesn't matter, though, because I have no better suggestion for how to tell the story, or how to explain anything. The scope is simply too large.

Easily one of the best series I've ever read, and without a doubt a pillar of science fiction for years to come. Compared to previous science fiction classics - Dune (not actual sci fi but people claim it is), Childhood's End, Foundation, Ender's Game, and every other book on this list that I've read https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_classics_of_sf.asp and likely almost all that I have not read - the scope and breadth of the science fiction setting of this novel is so dramatically large that it's not possible not to be impressed.

I'm not sure I'd want to live in Liu's world, but I'm awestruck by it.… (mais)

Marcado

mrbearbooks | outras 101 resenhas | Apr 22, 2024 |

The Three-Body Problem de Cixin Liu

Series Info/Source: This is the first book in the Three-Body Problem series. I got an eGalley of this book through NetGalley to review.

Thoughts: I finished this but it was a struggle. I skimmed through the last 20% or so of the story, to see what happened. I almost put this down multiple times, but some of the VR elements introduced about 30% of the way in made me curious enough to keep going.

The writing here is stiff and the dialogue is awkward. I assume a lot has been lost in translation, but based on the other reviews of those who have read the original Chinese version maybe not. The characters are forgettable and hard to keep track of. Really the characters feel like generic placeholders that any random person could fill in.

I actually liked the beginning of this but then when we moved to present I lost interest. I did appreciate that we did get to go back to see the events that happened in the past progress. The story ends up bouncing between three different settings the present real world, the present in the VR Three Body World, and the past. There are footnotes throughout which did explain a lot of the science and Chinese historical subtleties in more detail; I liked learning about this but was frustrated that these footnotes broke up the story even more.

There are some very creative ideas here and that seems to be mainly what this book is, an idea story. I did enjoy the irony around the actions the characters took in both locations being based around how much they disliked their own species (I know this is a vague statement but I am trying to avoid spoilers).

The ideas here are cool...the plot, the characters, and the general readability here are weak. I did not enjoy this and it was not fun to read, it felt like work to read and was almost textbook like at times.

My Summary (3/5): Overall I really struggled with this book and do not plan on reading any more books by this author. Yes, this was a neat idea but the flow of the story, the characters, and the writing were all very awkward and weak. This was work to read and I didn't really enjoy it. I do appreciate the idea and creativity though.… (mais)

Marcado

krau0098 | outras 404 resenhas | Apr 17, 2024 |

See More Reviews