Whenever I see his name, I'm transported back to a small town public library in the UK where his novel, Eon and its Arthur C. Clarke nomination took me from a young boy reading more popularist Sci-Fi authors straight into a much harder world of sci-fi authors and it left a huge impression.
Another big loss to the Sci-Fi literary community.
Likewise. I've used it to introduce many people to more serious sci-fi.
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Are his other books like that too? Or is the tone a little less murderous?
Also from the view point of SETI there is the awful truth that we really shouldn’t be trying to communicate w/ other life because the most practical meaningful form of interstellar communication is bombing with relativistic or sub-relativistic projectiles. See The Killing Star where aliens watched Star Trek: The Original Series and thought we might be dangerous, then saw Star Trek: The Next Generation and realized they could take us.
I think that was my favorite part of the Three Body Problem. The "F You" attitude it has toward optimism, individuality, liberty.. haha