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11 Books That Scratch the 3 Body Itch
After watching Netflix’s adaptation, check out some more hard sci-fi and Chinese speculative fiction.
Unlike The Three-Body Problem,in which human struggle often feels like a framework around which Cixin can drape his ideas, Chiang’s puzzle-box stories center on the emotional and philosophical impact of great discovery: the despair, the horror, the hope. A Que’s “Flower of the Other Shore” is a funny zombie story that riffs on Hollywood cliché; Gu Shi’s “The Last Save” features a piece of tech ripped straight from Black Mirror;Hao Jingfang’s“Qiankun and Alex” is focused on the relationship between a young child and the generative AI trying to learn from him. Depending on your perspective, and what you were forced to endure in English class, that pitch has either turned you on or really off the idea of Hyperion.Dan Simmons’s Hugo-winning space opera is unashamedly stuffed with literary references, but it’s also arguably the most readable novel on this list.
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