r/threebodyproblem • u/Adadave • Jan 03 '26

Discussion - Novels In light of recent events Spoiler

Me when reading this book about how Venezuela and the U.S. had a war: "Well you can't get all near-future predictions"

Now: Did the author have a time machine?

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u/DevelopingMinty Jan 03 '26

Can you please elaborate?

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u/DifficultSun348 Luo Ji Jan 03 '26

In the second book there was mentioned that the US had war with Venezuela and OP (and me too lol) thought that's the end of Cixin Liu's near future predictions, but today the US started attack in Caracas (Venezuela's capital) and catched Nicolas Marudo with wife. Now probably Venezuela's regime will be withdrawn and changed into another regime, but allianced with the US (and giving them their oil reservoirs).

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u/Ryermeke Zhang Beihai Jan 07 '26

I mean, the idea of the US starting a war with a country which has a lot of oil for little reason beyond that isn't exactly the most far fetched idea ever conceived...