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The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin (Part 2 of 2)

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Show Notes

Don’t listen to this podcast, or we will conquer you. The Pagenerds are back with part two of The Three Body Problem, and things are about to get chaotic, not just mathematically.

The nerds dive into alien nanotech, real, uh, slicey innovation, human computers *and* human jerky.

The second half of this book is breakneck, it’s such a fantastic trip and we can’t wait for you to strap on your extraterrestrial VR headset and take it with us.

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