On my vacation I finished the first book of “The Three-Body Problem” by Liu Cixin. I am rocking back and forth between being entertained by its novel ideas and concepts and being bored by its all too obvious imitation of the storytelling in Gödel, Escher, Bach.

I don’t know if it really wants to be a “hard” science fiction novel or just a fairytale teaching some concepts of astrophysics, spatial dimensions and such.

And now I don’t know either, whether I should continue with the trilogy…

Anyway, at least I learnt about Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”, an environmental science book from 1962, documenting the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides.