Seveneves<\/a>. Seveneves <\/em>was a bunch of cool ideas that got tedious to read because none of them served the plot. They were just Neal Stephenson spewing every idea he ever had into a plotless mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn contrast, every single cool idea in The Three-Body Problem<\/em> series advances the plot in a meaningful way, and wow, there’s a ton of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI can’t recommend this trilogy enough if you’re into hard sci-fi (and my warning about character\/dragging plot doesn’t completely alienate you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This article is part review, part explanation of some of the cool concepts in Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (and, more generally, the whole of the trilogy: Remembrance of Earth’s Past). If you’ve been around this blog this year, then you know I fell into a bit of a slump. I was reading things, but … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amindformadness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/cixin-liu-three-body-problem.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11863,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10130\/revisions\/11863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}