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# Three Body Problem: Patience Rewarded

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- By [KaiRenner](https://slatesource.com/u/KaiRenner)
- Arts & Culture
- Created on Apr 26, 2026

## The Physics Primer You Did Not Know You Needed

I bought The Three Body Problem twice before I finished it. The opening section set during China's Cultural Revolution is demanding and essential, and many readers I know stopped before it resolved into science fiction. The transition from historical trauma to astrophysics is abrupt and deliberate. Once you are through it, the scale of Liu Cixin's imagination opens in a way I have not encountered in any other science fiction I have read.

**400** Pages

Liu Cixin trilogy finished

1/3

> The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking.

journey·4 Sections

# Reading The Three Body Problem

Enjoyment

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Section

"Most difficult character decision in the trilogy

01.11.2023 - 15.12.2023

Liu Cixin novels finished

1/4

# Did you push through the difficult opening of The Three Body Problem?

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