it was yesterday, when
the ghosts of candles
raindrops, windows,
it was green, and it was gray
all the words, the music,
the beauty, created out of pain
and then, today
I barely know you
yet
alone, I see you
alone, I miss you
and there is no more rain
I haven't read a lot of science fiction
I got started this summer with Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury
The online recommendations about Cixin Liu's trilogy came appearing
So I decided to give it a try, I thought probably I would read
at least the first book: The Three-Body Problem.
Which is based on the problem in physics of tracing the trajectory of three bodies interacting with one another
this problem doesn't have a closed form solution!
I am very lucky to be able to read in both Spanish and English
I read books in their original language (only for those languages of course!)
Being the original books written in Chinese
And catalogued as "hard science fiction"
A subgenre of sci-fi that focuses more on scientific details, math, physics
I thought it would be easier to understand these concepts in Spanish
I also did a combination of audiobook while following the paper back in Spanish at night.
The Spanish version is narrated spectacularly by Francesc Belda.
Yet, I couldn't resist to buy used books of the English translations
I've been having a great time comparing chapters in both languages, jumping from Spanish to English print editions to audio in Spanish
I have finished books 1 and 2, The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest
Both are highly recommended!
I don't know much about science fiction but I am in awe of the concepts, the visuals, and the stories that Cixin Liu have created
I have read that the characters are flat, and yes, this is not literary fiction (which is one of my favorite genres) yet, the narrative feels like a thriller, a space but also early 1960's Chinese thriller, full of mystery and archetypical passages
The imagery is mind-blowing and so the scientific concepts!
But also the books are full of philosophical analysis of our species, moral concepts, sociology, including cosmic sociology (what a concept!) and more
The concept of the 'sophons' on The Three-Body Problem was mind-blowing and that was just the beginning
The concept behind The Dark Forest itself is "espeluznante" truly nightmarish
The imagery is superb too!
I could keep on writing about these books, but rather get started with
Death's End / El fin de la muerte, the last of the trilogy... and the longest.
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| Estuche con la trilogía Recuerdo del pasado de la Tierra y los libros en inglés The Three-body Problem and The Dark Forest |
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| How it all got started: El Problema de los Tres Cuerpos |
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| Capítulos en Español e Inglés |
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| Excelente libro: The Dark Forest, El Bosque Oscuro, muy entretenido leer en inglés y español alternadamente |
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| Following both translations, sometimes switching back in the same reading session, but mostly I read one of the other language, didn't repeat chapters in both languages. |
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| Los 'infamous' Vallados, The Wallfacers, what a thing! |
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