Matt Chinworth

Matt ChinworthThis finale to the 3-Body Problem trilogy is what I was hoping for and so much more. Ripping through the universe and time from end to end every which way, Cixin Liu somehow delivers still more idea-rich chapters that stretch science and imagination to their limits.

Matt ChinworthProbably more like 3.5 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed the final 2 chapters where the story seems to shift from a comical farce to an absurdist’s tragedy. K meets the priest and discusses the door to the law parable and, for a moment, the fogged lenses are rubbed clean even if only to remain streaked or to fog again, but things started to tumble into place for me. The anxiety, hilarity, and exasperated wrestling with the hopeless injustice of it all seemed to at least have an object of blame, albeit an unseen arbiter or judge doling out sentences. Or is the doorkeeper in on the cosmic joke as well? And then the famous line, “It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.” A scary examination for sure.