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The Three-Body Problem
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Series: The Three-Body Problem Series, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Listen to the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix original series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.
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Critic reviews
"A milestone in Chinese science fiction." (New York Times)
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"SF in the grand style." (Guardian)
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- Thomas
- 07-03-18
Dont be put off by the science!!
If you could sum up The Three-Body Problem in three words, what would they be?
Complex, Intriguing and Mysterious.
What did you like best about this story?
At the start of the story I was confused however as the plot unravels all becomes clear!
What about Bruno Roubicek’s performance did you like?
All of the voices were unique without any feeling over done and cringy.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Despite its length I was keen to listen as much as possible to find out what was going on.
Any additional comments?
Be warned that this is a trilogy and only Book 1 & Book 2 are currently available as audiobooks. I am hoping the 3rd will be available by the time I finish the second instalment otherwise I will be buying the 3rd to find out how this thrilling story ends.
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- S. A. Meij
- 17-12-20
Horrible narration ruins whole experience
If you like the idea of an old white guy using a high pitched 'girl voice' with a british accent to portray an asian woman, this might be for you. If not, steer clear. The narration is stiff, boring and monotone - narrator has a very unusual cadance when portraying speech that he applies to every single character which results in a very unpleasant listen. I honestly don't know if the book or story is good or if I would've enjoyed it with better narration. But as it is - steer clear.
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- Zoot
- 05-03-20
Shockingly bad.
What you'd expect from socialist sci-fi: flat and featureless. Even the heavy science couldnt redeem the unbearable blandness of the characters and story. It truly was a slog to get through. Unbelievably it gets worse the closer it gets to the end, where it slumps in an astoundingly disappointing climax. The dialogue and cultural scenery is clumsy and absurdly ideological. How this has won several awards is astonishing to me.
Narrator delivers all this like he reading a book to a child.
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- TB
- 16-01-17
Recommended
An unusual and wonderful book. Full of intriguing ideas. Beautiful writing. Was sad when the book ended.
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- C. Campbell
- 14-11-17
Fascinating perspectives but felt quite long
Occasionally brilliant observations of the dark side of humanity and an interesting portrayal of a period of history I know little about. Bold portrayal of advances in physics. A book of many different textures. Sometimes dark, sometimes cartoonish. But with a tendancy to run long.
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- matt hall
- 07-03-18
Exposition-heavy, clunky at times
So this is decontamination an important book. It's the first science fiction to cross over from the Chinese sci fi community and receive recognition in the west, and as such is definitely worth a read. It's definitely full of ideas and has a certain playfulness about it and these are some very interesting historical aspects centering on the cultural revolution and life as an intellectual in 20th century China.
What I found hard to get past, though, was the science. For a book that feels so heavily on hard science, the author's research is sloppy and scientific notions are often confused or just plane wrong. Relating these ideas is often done in the form of one character lecturing another quote dryly and this frequently becomes tedious. There's a lack of elegance to it which makes quite a bit of the narrative a bit of a slog.
The aliens are ultimately also quite disappointing as well. Initially they are utterly mysterious and their powers seem godlike to the point of extreme implausibility. We learn about their home system, which is an interesting setting, but we also learn that they are basically just like humans in their giving and reasoning with power structures which are instantly recognisable. It feels like a cop out.
This isn't a terrible book, but neither is it a particularly good one. It feels clunky and exps the sorts of tropes that were common in 50s and 60s sci fi. We also see clichéd characters laboring to solve quite simple problems. I won't deny there are some fun episodes but by the end I was just waiting for the book to end.
Not sure I'll bother with the sequels.
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- Glyn Williams
- 18-07-18
Novel ideas but clunky construction.
I tried very hard to like this book. I was delighted to hear science fiction from a point of view other than the US/UK mainstream. And this book is very definitely from a Chinese perspective.
But it never really worked for me. I didn't find the characters compelling. I thought the science was silly. And the core story didn't hold together. In great storytelling we have to see a the predicament of characters and understand why they are motivated to do what they do. I never bought into the motivation of these characters.
This was not helped by the narration, which was often read in a flat robotic monotone.
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- Roy Elmer
- 06-12-16
New Perspectives
I loved this, genuinely. It's an entirely new perspective on a usually quite Western dominated genre. What an excellent idea!
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- Mark Taylor
- 09-11-19
Fantastic
I never thought I would read a Chinese author. But I am so glad I did. This is a fantastic book. Absolutly recomed this to all.
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- Will
- 10-11-17
Great story, uninspiring narration
Narrator is quite flat and totally butchers some of the Chinese names, the story is very good and builds very slowly.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-19
Too little, too long
It's a good story, but it spends the first 80% of the book setting up the 20 min climax. It should have been a short story.
6 people found this helpful
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- Sonia
- 02-01-18
Ok, but can get boring
I found the story rather interesting, particularly given it is set in China, and partly in the cultural revolution. So that part of it I found great - very different from the usual American centered SF. I like that it was different, and therefore formed a good 'background' for the story.
The trouble was that there was not much 'story'. I read a review that said that Characters are really only there to explain the science basis. I agree with that view.
Thus, it got boring. I am in two minds about whether or not I will grab book two, or return the book (I am unlikely to re-listen to it).
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- Pekka Laukkanen
- 07-12-18
Dry, so dry.
I had looked forwards to reading this. But I just-cant-continue.
The story is extremely slow and tedious, with absolutely usell and none essencial descriptions of backstories and interactions that do not take the story, mystery or ambiens forwards at all. Instead just making you wallow in obfuscating noise.
Im half way through the book, chapter 15, and the book has not "started going yet".
I will return this.
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- J.
- 06-04-16
Great
What did you like best about this story?
This book has a wealth of great ideas, and it manages to combine great scientific ideas with interesting cultural and social ideas as well. Particularly, the Chinese Cultural Revolution plays a significant role in the story, which has a great impact on one of the main characters. As a westerner (from northern Europe), the Cultural Revolution is not an even I know much about, but seeing it presented from a Chinese viewpoint (albeit with great hindsight) was very interesting.
The scientific ideas are also fantastic. They are complicated (for a novel), and one of them takes several chapters to introduce, but you won't even realise you're being introduced to it. It's absolutely brilliant.
What does Bruno Roubicek bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The narration is wonderful in my opinion. Roubicek is quite mellow and perhaps even delivers a tint of depression in the tone, but it suits the book. The book has a eerie sense of mystery and despair, and Roubicek's narration enhances this atmosphere.
Any additional comments?
I'll mention the only downside I noticed: One of the main characters is a bit flat and uninteresting. I'm not sure if this is intended to increase immersion (it's easier to fill and empty pair of pants, so to speak). He is interesting for what happens to him, but many of the supporting characters are more complex and interesting.
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- J. D. Botet
- 24-09-20
Starts well, ends pure fantasy
Good narration & good first chapters that creates intrigue about a contact event with an advanced alien civilisation. But in the final chapter or so, the alien advanced technology goes trough the window into pure fantasy with no scientific base. The aliens can do anything. Then the question is, if they can do anything with their superfantastic tech, why they haven't spread through the galaxy before? I'll not follow the rest of the books. Anything is not possible. The Universe and physics, although immense and extreme has some constrains. And stories need some logic and constrains.
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- Ulf Larsen
- 25-09-20
Miserable story from a wretched man
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- Emil Leo Andresen
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Long book, short story
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- Dawid Per
- 11-07-19
Should have been a short story
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- Gábor Gyebnár
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Creativity lost in scientific mumbo-jumbo
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