I haven’t read many scientific fictions, but I do have much interest in reading science books about quantum physics and space-time relations, the brief history of time, for example.
As a super fun of modern physics, I have to say that the Three Body written by Cixin Liu is more of a milestone of science fiction in Chinese history of both literature and physics than just a good novel with rich imagination.
Regardless of the literariness of this work, I mean the words Cixin used, the means of expression as well as the descxtion method in this whole book series, can’t say they are as excellent as of those traditional writters. After all, Liu was a student majored in science and had been working as an engineer for decades, you cannot blame him for his poor literariness, whatever those negative comments say about him and his book, I have truely high praise and admiration for him.

我没有读过很多科学小说,但我确实对阅读有关量子物理和时空关系的科学书籍很感兴趣,例如《时间简史》。
作为现代物理学的超级粉丝,我不得不说刘慈欣的《三体》不仅仅是一部想象力丰富的好小说,更是中国文学史和物理学史上科幻小说的里程碑。
无论这部作品的文学性如何,我指的是刘慈欣在整个系列丛书中使用的词汇、表达方式以及描述方法,不能说他比那些传统作家更优秀。毕竟,他是一名主修科学的学生,已经做了几十年的工程师,你不能因为他的文学素养不佳而责怪他,但不管那些负面评论对他和他的书怎么说,我都对他赞不绝口。

WHY?

为什么?

The ideas showed up in each one of the whole Three Body series have hardly been occured to most of normal people, nor to most scientific fiction writters or scientists, even if they have once occured to them, none of them could bring those ideas into a great fiction with such high logicality, which could be much harder for anyone else of those traditional writters to make this work better than Liu did.
Think about it, it is so incredible just to come up with all these ideas, such as Chain Of Suspicisions, Technological Explosion, Droplet, Proton Unfolding……you name it, not to mention use them to build such a majestic structure of story.
This story isn’t just about physics or cosmology, it covers also chemistry, biology, socialogy, especially the socialogy of the universe, which is created by Liu, and politics……
I don’t think anyone is in the position of judging Liu’s masterpiece without having read his book very deeply and thoroughly, they deserve high respect.

三体系列中的每一本书都有一些想法,而大多数普通人、科幻作家或科学家几乎都没有想到。即使他们曾经想到过,也没有一个能把这些想法变成具有如此高逻辑性的伟大小说,对于那些传统作家中的其他人来说,要想把这部作品写得比刘好,可能要困难得多。
想一想所有这些想法,比如猜疑链、技术爆炸、水滴、质子展开……你能想到所有吗,更不用说用它们来构建如此宏伟的故事结构了。
这个故事不仅仅是关于物理学或宇宙学,它还涉及化学、生物学、社会学,尤其是刘创造的宇宙社会学,还有政治……
我认为,如果没有深入透彻地阅读过刘的书,就没有人能够评价他的杰作,他应该受到高度尊重。