For any novel, praise can increase the popularity of the novel. A truly good novel will be loved by more audiences and fans, thus continuously increasing its popularity. "The Three-Body Problem" is such a novel.
First, let’s analyze why “The Three-Body Problem” is so popular among readers.
1. This is because "The Three-Body Problem" starts from real life, from the life of an ordinary person we know as the starting point, and then looks at the unknown space that we have always longed for. Interspersed with it are some reviews of a period of history experienced by Chinese civilians. Through the tragic experience of an ordinary Ye Wenjie, it arouses despair for society and mankind. After contacting alien civilization, he chose to vent his emotions by taking revenge on humans.
2. The transitional part of "Three-Body" is when mankind discovered a way to fight against the Three-Body civilization, and thus spent a beautiful and stable time. This part is also the exposure and revelation of human nature. The nature and essence of human beings are inertia and unreasonable optimism about the future. The imagination of the unknown world outside is too simple and beautiful, and they are more wary and hostile towards their own kind.
3. The last part of "The Three-Body Problem" is also the most exciting part. From the first part, it is just the development of human civilization on earth, to the second part, the confrontation in the solar system, and then to the third part, Death Eternal Life. Reveal different mysteries of the universe. In addition to some of the technology and imagination in the first two films, shadows can be found in other novels and movies. The third part is groundbreaking, especially after Cheng Xin and Ai AA escaped from the two-dimensional solar system and discovered a new world. Finally, the Nullifier civilization, which is more advanced than the Singer civilization, was introduced. At the end of the novel, it still leaves room for imagination and makes people linger.
The most important thing for science fiction novels is to have more understanding and more imagination of the unknown world, and "The Three-Body Problem" just does it, and among some current novels, "The Three-Body Problem" is very Excellent.
In addition to ordinary readers, there are also many celebrities at home and abroad who are loyal fans of "The Three-Body Problem", such as former US President Obama, famous Hollywood director James Cameron, and Chairman of 360 Company Zhou Hongyi, Tencent Chairman Ma Huateng and many other celebrities. In 2021, the third part of "The Three-Body Problem", "The Immortality of Death", was released in Japan. It was placed in the most conspicuous position at the entrance of major bookstores. At the same time, it is difficult to find a copy of the book.
Of course, anyone who reads any article or novel will have different opinions. Some people like it, some people find it mediocre, and some people find it unreadable. So don't force others to over-praise "The Three-Body Problem". Gold will always shine. If you like it, continue reading it and recommend your friends to read it too. If you don't like it, you can put it aside and let others who like it read it.
As a fan of "Three-Body", I think most of the evaluations of "Three-Body" are agreed. He is not touted at all, but is truly excellent. I hope he can be made into a movie soon and meet more audiences.
A man bought the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" from Liu Cixin for 100,000 yuan, but five years later he sold it for 120 million yuan. This person is the new generation director Zhang Fanfan. In 2009, he bought the copyright of the science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" from Liu Cixin for 100,000 yuan. It later turned out that Director Zhang bought gold at a cabbage price, because in 2014 Director Zhang resold the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" to Yoozoo CEO Lin Qi for 120 million. In just five years, the copyright fee for "The Three-Body Problem" increased 1,000 times.
So how good is the book "The Three-Body Problem"? If you look at the following examples, you will know that it is no ordinary cow.
1. After watching the first part of "The Three-Body Problem", former U.S. President Obama sent an email to Liu Xinci to urge him to update it, and later became Liu Cixin's biggest fan.
2. The famous Hollywood director James Cameron came all the way to make an appointment with Liu Cixin for "The Three-Body Problem", hoping that Liu would give him "The Three-Body Problem" to make into a movie.
After reading "The Three-Body Problem", Zhou Hongyi, the chairman of 3.360 Company, sent a plane to invite Liu Cixin to his home and made a cameo appearance as a military think tank expert in the "Three-Body Problem" movie.
4. Ma Huateng was at a forum organized by the University of Hong Kong. When Zhang Lifen of FT Chinese asked him what books he read, Ma Huateng directly answered "The Three-Body Problem".
5. In 2015, "The Three-Body Problem" defeated more than a hundred European and American science fiction works and won the 73rd Global "Hugo Award" for Best Novel. …… ……
A science fiction novel that is popular among so many people must have its uniqueness. So what are the main aspects of "The Three-Body Problem"?
1. The key concepts in "Three-Body" coincide with business management concepts, especially Internet management concepts.
For example, once the "Three-Body" people discover the existence of other civilizations in the universe, they will try their best to destroy this civilization. This can be called the "law of competition for survival."
The Internet is about the "attention economy". Whether on PC or mobile, content is growing exponentially, but everyone's online time is limited, which results in limited attention resources. Therefore, if you want to be invincible, you must "destroy" your competitors. How to "destroy" your opponent so that you can win?
The "dimensionality reduction attack" in "Three-Body" is to lower the human civilization index: My level is low, so I will first drag my opponent to the same low level, and then eat you.
When the "dimensionality reduction attack" thinking is used in business wars, it is typically equivalent to reducing prices or even making them free. If the opponent does not do this, as long as you reduce the price and make it free, you will attract more customers, at least defeating you in terms of popularity. opponent. One of the reasons why 360 won the competition that year was the use of "dimensionality reduction attacks."
2. The concept of "Three-Body" is unique, and it subverts traditional human cognition. We have always believed that humans are the natural masters of the earth and the eternal masters of the universe, so when encountering an invasion by alien civilization, humans will always be the victorious party.
Liu Cixin, the author of "Three-Body", believes that life on earth did not begin with humans, but with microbial viruses and bacteria, and they should be the earliest native owners of the universe. Later, humans invaded the living space of microbial viruses and bacteria. From this perspective, humans are the barbarians and the invaders of the homes of viruses and bacteria.
In "Three-Body", human beings are weak in front of the civilization of the universe. The civilization of the earth is beyond the reach of the Three-Body civilization, and the more advanced civilization of the Lord of the Rings, the Singer Civilization, and the Zero Returner Civilization are even more important to the earth. beyond the reach of civilization.
This novel concept of "The Three-Body Problem" subverts traditional human cognition and teaches arrogant human beings a good lesson: Human beings must be humble and must never be arrogant. , otherwise you will be severely punished.
3. "The Three-Body Problem" is not just a novel, it is also a prophetic book about the future of mankind.
There is a plot in "The Three-Body Problem": When Cheng Xin woke up from hibernation, she was surprised to find that all the men in the world had turned into women, with long hair and beautiful faces. Good, slim figure, sweet voice...
With the continuous progress of human society, the level of mechanization is getting higher and higher, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to participate in manual labor, and everyone’s evaluation of beautiful men has also gradually Transformation from masculine beauty to feminine beauty. The current popularity of "little fresh meat" also shows that people have accepted the transition from male beauty to elegant beauty.
In addition, the umbrella without an umbrella mentioned in "The Three-Body Problem" has also come out today.
In the third part of the "Three-Body" series, I once wrote about the shape of "umbrellas" in the future world: people no longer use umbrellas with umbrellas to cover the rain, but use something called a rain shelter. It's about the size of a small flashlight, blowing air upwards to blow away the rain above people's heads.
Many readers may have found it incredible when they read this, but now it is said that Liu Cixin’s imagination has become a reality - similar umbrellas have been produced by domestic developers.
This kind of umbrella is called an "air umbrella". It looks like a long magic wand. When it rains, when you turn on the switch, the airflow is sucked in from below and sprayed out from above, forming an invisible umbrella. umbrella cover.
In fact, in addition to the two points introduced above, there are many imaginations in "The Three-Body Problem" that have become or are becoming reality. Therefore, calling Liu Cixin a "great prophet" is not an exaggeration.
In summary, "The Three-Body Problem" is worthy of being the pinnacle of Chinese science fiction novels, and its value has surpassed the value of general science fiction literature.
Today, more than ten years after the publication of "The Three-Body Problem", it still ranks first in the domestic sales of science fiction literature. It has been translated into more than 30 languages ??and has a global circulation of more than 21 million. set.
Lei Jun said: "In the past ten years, the book I recommended most is "The Three-Body Problem". If you haven't read it, you can really read it. I think the "Three-Body Problem" strategy has been very helpful to me. big".
What is the specific content of "The Three-Body Problem", which is highly sought after by readers at home and abroad? What is this three-body theory that subverts traditional cognition?
Friends who have not read it can read "The Three-Body Problem". You will definitely get a hearty reading experience.
Originally, science fiction was dead, until the Three-Body Problem came back to life, and now it is still lying dead.
Before fantasy novels became popular, science fiction occupied this land. The Wesley series can be called a classic. But after the emergence of fantasy novels, a grander world view and more sophisticated plots have overtaken people who had read science fiction before. Why don’t people want to read science fiction anymore?
Because most science fiction novels are irrational!
Among the six characteristics of openness of mind, rationality, flexibility, leaping, IQ, and EQ, the most important is rationality. Without rationality, everything is empty!
This unreasonable problem is also common in the Three-Body Problem. Therefore, there are obvious gaps in the plot of Three-Body Problem. Many times it is science fiction for the sake of science fiction, infinitely expanding irrational thoughts and reducing people's IQ to the level of pigs.
So when reading The Three-Body Problem, many people finished it with clenched fists and really wanted to punch the author!
The main reason why Three-Body is sought after in reality is that it proposes a new philosophical idea: cosmology and sociology.
Determine the inevitability by thinking about race relations in the universe, so that people today can know what will happen after aliens are really discovered in the future.
Philosophy is a directional discipline involved in all high-level human beings. Except for philosophy, other disciplines are methodologies. This philosophical school has a very strong appeal to high-level people all over the earth. These high-level officials don't care about the flaws in the plot, but care about the sociological derivation of the universe. Therefore, even someone as powerful as Obama must endorse the Three-Body Problem.
The dark forest theory proposed by Three-Body Problem will not happen in the eyes of philosophers, because it will not happen in the face of human nature. From the history of the earth, it is confirmed that the United States' colonization of Indians and the British colonization of India are equivalent to the discovery of aliens, but they have not been exterminated because human nature exists forever.
The Three-Body Problem is the only full-length science fiction novel published since 2008. It is unique and proposes a theory that can affect all superstructures in the world, so it cannot be exaggerated no matter how much it is praised, even if its shortcomings account for 80% of the full text!
Because this is innovation, the beginning of innovation is always imperfect, and it is impossible to achieve the best at once. Therefore, there are also many authors who continue to create based on the three-body theory. The best one is "Forty Thousand Years of Cultivation", which can be read as a tantra of the three bodies or a side story. Among them, the derivation of the sociology of the universe has almost reached its extreme, and almost all the impacts and changes that will occur when humans encounter aliens are analyzed. For example, aliens who are 100 million times more powerful than humans, or aliens who are still in feudal society, or aliens who are born to be enemies of humans, how humans respond, and what kind of consequences will be caused by their choices are all fully deduced. Yan, without the plot flaws, it looks very enjoyable.
The author of Three-Body Problems is like Jin Yong. He is a master or founder of a genre, but he is not the strongest person in this genre. Looking at Jin Yong's novels from today's perspective, it is estimated that they are not even signed at the starting point. But mankind will always remember him and ignore the stronger ones in later generations. If you think Jin Yong has been over-hyped, then The Three-Body Problem has also been over-hyped, and vice versa~
Some trolls may argue that fantasy is more unreasonable than science fiction.
This is a sign of not understanding philosophy!
Rationality relies on the worldview. Science fiction relies on the worldview of the real world, while fantasy re-establishes a world. That world allows the existence of magic, which is reasonable. Take the controversial question "Can horses be blue?" as an example. You cannot establish a world view with blue horses in 800 words. Therefore, the plausibility of this essay is 0, and the score should be 0. Fantasy uses millions of words to establish a world view that can have magic, and that is reasonable enough.
There are many science fiction concepts in the Three-Body Problem, and there are about a dozen important ones, such as Sophon, Red Bank Project, Dehydration, Wall-Facing Project, Water Drops, Terrifying Era, Fleet International, Dimensionality Reduction Strike, etc. wait.
If it were anyone else, a novel would only use one or two science fiction concepts at most. For example, each of the three fairy tales in "The Three-Body Problem" would be enough to write a novel.
And Liu put so many science fiction concepts into one novel, reading "The Three-Body Problem" is equivalent to reading ten science fiction films.
If someone else had written Da Liu's short story "The Wandering Earth", it would have been possible to turn it into a full-length novel, or even a three-step novel. However, Da Liu insisted on writing a short story based on a long-form theme.
Therefore, most of Liu's science fiction novels are the best works, and "The Three-Body Problem" is the best among the best.
There have been hundreds of film and television remakes of Jin Yong’s fifteen martial arts novels, and more than 40 of Da Liu’s novels. In the future, there will be hundreds of film and television remakes.
I personally read few books and have no say in it,
But I still want to say,
The trilogy "Three-body, Dark Forest, "The God of Death",
is the only work so far that gave me goosebumps when watching it,
and had a great impact on my senses,
Press A foreigner's reaction after watching the film was "I want to lick Liu Cixin's brain."
The novel "The Three-Body Problem" was first recommended to me by my friend. I liked reading fantasy novels at the time, and I was not particularly interested in science fiction novels. I feel like it should be written poorly. However, my friend strongly recommended it and I downloaded the electronic version of "The Three-Body Problem" on my mobile phone. I didn’t find it interesting at first, but after a while I stopped watching it and started playing other games.
Until one time I was on a business trip and was waiting for the high-speed train at the station. I was bored, so I looked up this novel on my mobile phone and read it. After reading the first few chapters, I really got out of control and never stopped. Not coming down anymore. Although I still had things to do the next day, I stayed up all night reading the novel without finishing it. Then on the way back, and after I came back, I kept reading until I finished the novel. It can be said that during those days, I was completely attracted by this novel without thinking about it.
This novel not only has a well-written plot, but I also think its ideological value is very high. It is not only a science fiction novel, but the author also has deep thoughts on human nature and society. The entire novel is astonishingly imaginative in scale. I can't say that everyone will like it, but I really like it. I feel like this novel is not overly hyped.
Let’s not talk about the second part of Fengshen. The three fairy tales inserted in the third part of "The God of Death", which is the worst among the three, can put many science fiction works in the dust.
The difference between The Three-Body Problem and other science fiction novels is that other science fiction novels are basically science fiction, which is an imagination that gives a certain kind of scientific understanding. In addition to scientific imagination, the focus of the Three-Body Problem is mainly about the survival rules between different levels of civilization.
To sum it up in one sentence, other science fiction novels can be regarded as technology games. Three-Body is a cosmic survival game, and its scale is much larger. It brings readers not only the impact of science and technology, but also the impact of philosophy and culture.
I am a fan of the Three-Body novel, but I am not the kind of person who cannot tolerate bad words about something if I like it. I think what attracts me about The Three-Body Problem is not only the author’s imaginative structure of the future world, but also the bright and dark sides of human nature reflected behind every major event. It is a novel that is both far away and yet very close to us. novel.
No. I am a science fiction fan, and The Three-Body Problem is indeed far superior to all the science fiction novels I have read.