The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Has Become a Serialized Podcast

In Cixin’s Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, the primary in his Remembrance of Earth’s Past collection of novels, the reality concerning the existence of sentient life past Earth looms massive within the minds of plenty of totally different characters who all have various takes on what to do concerning the aliens.

But along with being a narrative about humanity’s response to different clever life within the current day, The Three-Body Problem can be hanging reflection on how dwelling by a interval just like the Chinese Cultural Revolution profoundly altered and devastated many individuals’s sense of actuality. Using the Cultural Revolution’s violent sociopolitical upheavals as its backstrop, The Three-Body Problem explores the varied ways in which individuals survive and emerge from revolutions. While Liu’s prose and its wonderful translation by Ken Liu are immersive, the ebook takes on a distinct type of power in Macmillan’s new audiobook manufacturing narrated by Luke Daniels.

Though the unique audiobook’s been out there for buy and at libraries for a while now, Tor Books and Macmillan Audio have partnered to launch The Three-Body Problem as an ongoing serialized podcast launched on Macmillan’s Stories From Among the Stars feed.

Over the subsequent few weeks main as much as August 6, Stories From the Stars’ feed will share new chapters from The Three-Body Problem each Tuesday and Thursday, after which your complete ebook can be out there till September 10. Given The-Three Body Problem’s density, sitting all the way down to learn or take heed to it in a single sitting may not be everybody’s pace, and there’s something concerning the ebook being served up on a podcast platform that lends itself to consuming it as “episodic” content material. The book-as-a-podcast transfer undoubtedly feels influenced by Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, however that is the type of pattern that actually can be very attention-grabbing to see extra of from main publishers.

Stories From Among the Stars is now out there wherever you get your podcasts.

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