although his engineer wife and 10-year-old daughter do not particularly approve of these acts of derring-do
the vainglorious artist, the mercenary scientist or the astrophysicist Ye Wenjie in Three Body: Earth Past, who, on an impulse, connects with aliens, daring them to attack Earth.
I am not a literary writer," he reiterates. "If my writing seems invested with such elements I would give the credit to the translator (in this case, Joel Martinsen)," he says.
The third book of Three Body has surpassed the first two. And it has also crushed all our previous science fiction stories into powder