![]() ![]() ![]() The book also refers to a key book: Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. Henceforth, using the term “sunspots” was forbidden for example, as it literary means “solar black spot”, and black was the color of counter-revolutionaries, and Chairman Mao was often compared to the “red sun.” For instance that at the time, political symbolism was found everywhere, to absurd levels. I knew of course of this “revolution”, when brilliant students and scientists were sent to work the land. I was not expecting the context at the opening of the book: the cultural revolution in China, with the complex relationships between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary groups. And it’s definitely more fun if you don’t read the synopsis, which as too often, reveals too much. So I dived into The Three-Body Problem without knowing anything about it. The book got suddenly pushed at the very top of my TBR when it was chosen for me by the staff of my awesome public library for their Winter Reading Challenge. ![]() I discovered Cixin Liu three years ago, thanks to Supernova Era, and was planning to read The Three-Body Problem one day. ![]()
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