The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book is endorsed by the redoubtable George R. R. Martin - First of his name, The Hirsute, Lord of House Verbosity, King of the Sea of Verbiage, Purveyor of Porn & Gore (followers of Game of Thrones will get the allusion).
It is based on a First Contact scenario, albeit from a Chinese perspective. Navigating through myriad canorous sounding names like Ding, Dong, Wang, Ying, Yang, Bing Bing was a bit tiresome (no racist slur implied here; it is just that one is used to protagonists named John, Dick and Jane). The book gives a glimpse of recent Chinese history about which not much is known.
The plot was quite thrilling especially the computer being constructed by aliens on yocto and zepto scales in eleven dimensions - SF aficionados will enjoy this. Now waiting for Amazon to deliver the sequels The Dark Forest and Death's End.
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