Modern Hard SF: Simulating Physics in Virtual Reality in Cixin Liu’s "The Three-Body Problem"
Modern Hard SF: Simulating Physics in Virtual Reality in Cixin Liu’s "The Three-Body Problem"

Summary/Abstract: In Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, the reader follows the protagonist Wang Miao into the digital depths of the virtual reality of Three Body. As I will demonstrate in this paper, the virtual reality Three Body constitutes a purposeful combination of literary simulation of modern physics and intermedial VR video game representation. I will show that this combination is utilized for several interesting narrative purposes, for example, as a powerful foreshadowing instrument and as an almost didactic explanatory device for the theoretical physics problem upon which the novel is based.

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