Hard Physics SF: The Three-Body problem

[Svein]

.. and done by a Chinese author: Liu Cixin. Here are some reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem.

So: What do you know about the general three-body problem and would you like a story set in a solar system with three suns?

 

[jedishrfu]

I started to read this book and while being quite good, I got sidetracked into reading The Expanse books.

I remember it had a gaming feel where folks tapped into different times playing a character who tries to predict the unpredictable climate on this strange planet not understanding the suns it orbits.

 

[Svein]

I remember it had a gaming feel where folks tapped into different times playing a character who tries to predict the unpredictable climate on this strange planet not understanding the suns it orbits.

Yes, that what it looks like in the start of the novel. It gets steadily more creepy.

 

[pixel]

I read this recently. It was interesting - dealing with the difficulties a civilization would face if its "sun" was actually a triple star system and therefore chaotic - but at the end it went too far away from reality as we know it.

It's actually the first book of a trilogy. The second book (The Dark Forest) has been translated to English. I started it but didn't get very far before I lost interest.