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Theme

As a technophilic, Liu Cixin describes in his novels that his planets have been destroyed and reshaped over and over again. Human beings struggled under his gaze, trying to find the last hope in his rational thinking. Liu Cixin smashed the warm dreams that some people are used to in The Three-body. Common sense and logic are either invalid or distorted in Liu Cixin's novels. However, I have to admit that his unique enthusiasm for technical madness has an extraordinary appeal. More importantly, his wild imagination may touch the core secret of human beings by mistake. Liu Cixin seems to be the first time to describe the scene of human end in The Three-body. This time he wholly immersed into the doomsday scene, found strength and beauty from it, and realized the profoundness of human tragedy.

Artistic technique

In addition to acquainting with the style of some traditional science fiction works, readingThe Three-bodyseries can bring a sense of pleasure like reading those excellent commercial popular novels. Moreover, you will be surprised by the author’s imagination far above ordinary people, and also appreciate the author's thinking. The readability of this novel series, as its foundation, is precisely the author's amazing and transcendental imagination. This series of novels shows that the author understands, utilizes, and deduces the illusion of science fiction logic. The philosophical thinking that runs through the whole series is the concept of "cosmic ethics" that the author says. Liu presupposes a dark premise of the cruel universe. Its first axiom: survival is the first need of civilization; the second one has quite extended the concept of environmental protection of limited resources on the earth to the meaning of the whole universe. It is said that the continuous growth and expansion of civilization is also very similar to what people call "development is the last word." In The Three-bodyseries, the author breaks through the traditional pattern of hard science fiction, making his story look better. At the same time, based on his philosophy, he still uses some framework of earth thinking. [Jiang Xiaoyuan, Liu Bing. The Three-bodyseries that crush Chinese science fiction novels [J]. China Book Review, 2011, Issue 02-68]