The Three-Body Problem

If killing you would solve the problem, you’d all be dead by now. But the most effective technique remains disrupting your thoughts.

the first cry that could be heard in space from civilization on Earth was already spreading out from the sun to the universe at the speed of light. A star-powered radio wave, like a majestic tide, had already crossed the orbit of Jupiter.

Based on these two successes, Pan’s opinions on social issues had grown more and more influential. He believed that technological progress was a disease in human society. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power. He believed in the gradual de-urbanization of modern metropolises by distributing the population more evenly in self-sufficient small towns and villages. Relying on the gentler technologies, he would build a new agricultural society.

As if in response to Newton’s words, a sliver of red sun peeked over the horizon, bathing the pyramid and the human-formation computer in a gol

snap random shots

“It’s easy to make ideological mistakes in theory.”

The gravity of reality is too strong.”

1967
The Red Union had been attacking th

couldn’t see them, but he could feel their presence like iron sensing the pull of a nearby magnet.

eted immediately by a cacophony of gunshots. The wea