[gregorymichael]

Tangentially - no scifi books have worked on my mind in the same way that the Three Body Problem trilogy.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...

[dimator]

I'll be that guy. The writing was completely off for me, I don't know if it was the Chinese sensibilities that I was lacking, or something lost in translation, or what, but I couldn't understand the main characters at all. The multipage scientific exposition sections do not make this "hard scifi" (and they're whacky anyway). I never got the hype, and I never wanted to follow through with the other 2 books.

[zanmat0]

Agreed, by far the best books I've ever read. And second that for the mild existential crisis.

[ConfusedDog]

Second that. It's probably the best hard science fiction out there.

[perfmode]

better than Weir’s martian?

[lsadam0]

I don't think The Martian and Three-Body should be compared. I think it's fair to say that The Martian is more 'hard sci-fi' in that the story is more grounded in what we know to be true. Three-Body has to invent some ideas in order to finish it's story.

That said, I overall enjoyed Three Body more. Even if it did push me into an existential crisis of some sort.

[donquichotte]

Third that. The author's upbringing in rural communist China gives these books an amazing depth.

[midrus]

Fourth that. Such a great book.

[lsadam0]

It caught my eye that you said 'book' rather than 'books'. You might not be aware Three Body is part of a trilogy? If you've not read The Dark Forest and Death's End, you are in for a real treat.