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The Three-Body Problem, written by Cixin Liu, is a hard science fiction novel that shines when it’s subverting its genre and developing its main themes. It can fascinate the reader with its creative world but also disappoint with its underdeveloped characters and anticlimactic ending.
The protagonist is the Chinese scientist Wang Miao, whose research in nanotechnology is put in check when a mysterious group of individuals threatens him in what appears to be a supernatural way: Miao begins to see a countdown floating in his field of vision, regardless of where he looks at. The quest for answers eventually leads the scientist to a virtual-reality videogame called [...]