Top Ten Reasons for Digging 3BP (Requiem for Dave)

10. The slow, carefully plotted unfolding saga of Red Coast
9. Shi Qiang
8. The Stable and Chaotic Eras
7. Destruction of a civilization due to solar syzygy
6. The attempt to sabotage Earth’s scientific efforts
5. The concept of an alien world’s advancement happening in cataclysmic fits and starts instead of like the Earth’s advancement by orders of magnitude.
4. Cixin Liu’s claim in his postscript that he has a superhuman ability to concretely visualize abstract macro and micro numbers.
3. Albert Einstein’s appearance.
2. Silent Spring’s appearance.
1. What the Trisolarans do to a proton