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SoylentNews Book Club: Discuss Foundation, Start Reading The Three-Body Problem

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 04 2018, @12:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the two-interesting-books dept.

takyon writes:

November: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
December: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

A poll for the January 2019 book will be around the 15th, unless you want it sooner (not sooner than the U.S. midterms).

Discuss Foundation by Isaac Asimov in the comments below.

As for Liu Cixin's best known novel:

"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." ―President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy

The English translation for The Three-Body Problem was published in 2014 by Ken Liu under Tor Books.

Consider using <spoiler>text</spoiler> wherever you feel the need to do so.

Previously: Announcement post • Mars, Ho!

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 04 2018, @05:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 04 2018, @05:40PM (#757676)
    We are pessimist today because of fear of the coming great social change, the new Industrial revolution, which will make 90% of humans unnecessary, poor and cast away - which may result in local wars to change the financial system. We are afraid of the new global resource war. We are afraid that one of those wars will destroy us all. Space? No, it's too expensive to live on other planets, and outside of science there is little to do currently.
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday November 04 2018, @11:09PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 04 2018, @11:09PM (#757772) Journal

    the new Industrial revolution, which will make 90% of humans unnecessary

    Is economy the purpose of humanity?
    The perspective seems to matter when assessing the necessity on humans.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford