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I found it helpful to first listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson explain on YouTube what the Three Body Problem is re: physics, calculus and orbital mechanics before I started this book. This is a first contact novel where the aliens and the humans are at odds, but neither is especially superior technologically than the other at least at the outset. Translated from Chinese, which made it doubly interesting-seeing the world from a non-western perspective.