A Hugo award winner and a great sciences fiction book by a Chinese author. Enough of a tagline to pick up this book and then i saw this book recommended by Barack Obama so I picked it up for a good read and very glad I did. Its very hard to describe what this book is about but I'll try anyway.
This was a very refreshing type of science fiction novel that deals with a not-so-distant future where we may make some scientific breakthroughs that may lead to first contact. I was sure that's what this book may be about but it very quickly evolves into a very realistic human element of how we would adopt ourselves to react to such a breakthrough. This also involves technological leaps that we make as a race with a new form of space race while still being, well Human.
Another different perspective was that it was written with the assumption that China is one of the leading superpowers and doesn't put USA in the middle of the story. I would highly recommend this book for sciences fiction fans and even to some who aren't since it deals with the existentialist crisis and a lot of philosophical questions that we may need to deal with as a race.
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