Eric Lipton
Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump and the Trump administration-without fear or favor. I write about people and power.
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Recommended by Eric Lipton
“Finally finished Three Body Problem, sci-fi trilogy by Liu Cixin after having hard time pushing through 3rd book given the many tangents. But overall, what a fascinating, thought-provoking journey, examining ripple effect after humans come into contact with extraterrestrial life https://t.co/fKfpXqAO3w” (from X)
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu, Joel Martinsen(you?)
Cixin Liu, Ken Liu, Joel Martinsen(you?)
The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epic.”―The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”―The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”―TIME • “Extraordinary.”―The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”―Barack Obama • “Provocative.”―Slate • “A breakthrough book.”―George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”―GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”―NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”―The Washington Post The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series―The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End―by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens―and succeeds. Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth. News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost. The Three Body Problem trilogy is a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision. The Three-Body Problem Series The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books by Cixin Liu Ball Lightning Supernova Era To Hold Up the Sky The Wandering Earth A View from the Stars
Recommended by Eric Lipton
“Fascinating new book out today by Larry Roberts, former WashPost/ProPublica investigations editor, examining an earlier era of mass protests in the US, back when Nixon was president. Larry is a great writer. And it shows. https://t.co/h186ImOutd https://t.co/2lWygVivyb” (from X)
Lawrence Roberts(you?)
"A deeply researched narrative of Nixon's mass arrest of the thousands of protesters who flooded the capital in the darkest days of the Vietnam War."—New York Times "It's impossible to read MAYDAY 1971 without thinking of our own recent summer of unrest -- and the autumn of discontent we face." ---Washington Post It was the largest act of civil disobedience in US history. They surged into Richard Nixon's Washington by the tens of thousands in spring 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America's war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation's capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid president, was determined to stop it. Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of interviews, unexplored archives, and newfound White House transcripts, recreates these largely forgotten events through the eyes of dueling characters. Woven into the story too are now-familiar names including John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. It began with a bombing inside the U.S. Capitol—a still-unsolved case to which Roberts brings new information. To prevent the Mayday Tribe's guerrilla-style traffic blockade, the government mustered the military. Riot squads swept through the city, arresting more than 12,000 people. As a young female public defender led a thrilling legal battle to free the detainees, Nixon and his men took their first steps down the road to the Watergate scandal and the implosion of the presidency. Mayday 1971 is the ultimately inspiring story of a season when our democracy faced grave danger, and survived.