You nailed it—Aasimov’s and Cixin Liu’s classics should be almost compulsory reading. However, it caught my eye you call Cixin Liu’s trilogy the Dark Forest Trilogy, instead of referring to it as something likeThe 3-body problem books or Trisolarian Trilogy or Remembrances of Earth’s Past. What I enjoy most in these books is the challenge of maintaining something like long-term cooperation. To such a list I’d add something like The Ministry for the Future (someone should add a good review to this forum); but though it has wonderful passages, sometimes it’s irrealistic optimistic (or even simplistic, along the lines “capitalism is evil”) and takes a lot for granted.
You nailed it—Aasimov’s and Cixin Liu’s classics should be almost compulsory reading. However, it caught my eye you call Cixin Liu’s trilogy the Dark Forest Trilogy, instead of referring to it as something likeThe 3-body problem books or Trisolarian Trilogy or Remembrances of Earth’s Past.
What I enjoy most in these books is the challenge of maintaining something like long-term cooperation. To such a list I’d add something like The Ministry for the Future (someone should add a good review to this forum); but though it has wonderful passages, sometimes it’s irrealistic optimistic (or even simplistic, along the lines “capitalism is evil”) and takes a lot for granted.
I just misremembered the official name of the trilogy—Remembrance of Earth’s Past is correct.