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December: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
The next poll will pick two books. I'd like to do it that way to keep a strong second place contender from being overlooked, and so I don't have to update the poll so often.
Discuss The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin in the comments below.
Snow Crash was written by Neal Stephenson in 1992. The novel features a bit of a Calexit scenario, and is known for popularizing the term "avatar" (paving the way for James Cameron's true magnum opus). These days, Neal moonlights as Magic Leap's "Chief Futurist". Seems appropriate.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 06 2018, @04:04PM (1 child)
The sophons weren't restricted to our four dimensional world. We were never given any hint how, or how much, energy might be transferred to/from sophons in the higher dimensions.
The more impossible bit that I kept chuckling over, were the way the aliens would simply dehydrate, when all three suns were scorching the world. Like - their bodies couldn't burn or anything. That, and, when/how did they ever procreate? It seems they rarely got a crop of anything harvested, let alone find time for baking babies. Unless, of course, Mama dehydrated with Baby inside of her, and Baby patiently waited for the next rehydration period.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:55PM
I think it's explained, maybe near the end, or the beginning of the second book. The mommy trisolarsn and daddy trisolaran merge together, then split into up to 5 baby trisolarans. The children retain some parental memories, so it's less procreation and more self cloning. Thus, trisolarans have no parents or children.