Author Mike Wang joins us this week as we review Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, the first Chinese novel to win a Hugo for best novel.  We discuss how Liu uses the cultural revolution in this work of science fiction and whether or not we thought the hype around the novel was warranted.

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