While literary classics tend to be regaled as the very best on any given bookshelf, there’s something to be said about modern masterful works. For instance, the publication Collider highlighted books that were relatively recently published that have pages full of excellent prose, compelling plots, and remarkable characters.
The list, titled “The 8 Greatest Books of the Last 26 Years,” included novels like Gillian Flynn‘s Gone Girl from 2012, 2003’s The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, published in 2016. According to Collider, the “greatest book of the last 26 years” is the 2008 Hugh Award-winning Chinese science fiction novel, The Three-Body Problem, written by author Liu Cixin.
The Three-Body Problem has a score of 4.08 out of 5 from 533,897 on Goodreads.
Liu Cixin Shared His Thoughts About the Popularity of ‘The Three-Body Problem’
In a 2024 interview with The Guardian, Cixin, a computer engineer, shared that he doesn’t know why The Three-Body Problem and its subsequent sequels, The Dark Forest (2008) and Death’s End (2010), resonated with so many readers and critics.
“Frankly speaking, I don’t know even know the reasons for the success of The Three-Body Problem trilogy. I don’t find the reasons given by some researchers, such as the novels have helped the west to understand China and so on, to be convincing,” said Cixin during the interview. “I don’t think that the success of The Three-Body Problem in the west is due to the fact that the novels are Chinese science fiction novels, but rather the fact that they are science fiction novels that treat human beings as a whole.”
David Benioff Explained Why He Wanted to Adapt ‘The Three-Body Problem’ Into a Netflix Series
The Three-Body Problem became the source of inspiration for a 2024 Netflix series, 3 Body Problem, which has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 79 percent. The series, created by television writer Alexander Woo and HBO Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, consists of one season with eight episodes.
During a 2024 Netflix panel with the cast and crew, Benioff explained why he, Weiss, and Woo were interested in adapting Cixin’s material.
“One of the things that really appealed to us about the books and why we wanted to adapt it is because it’s not your traditional evil aliens envading,” said the writer.
He also noted that the aliens in Cixin’s book and 3 Body Problem are “not evil,” but rather refugees.
“They’re coming because their world is falling apart. This is a science fiction story, it’s about aliens coming to possibly conquer earth, but it has to start in a very grounded place. That’s what was essential to us because in the books, that’s really what drew us in,” said Benioff during the 2024 panel.
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