Liu Cixin, "The Three-Body Problem," Moscow: Fanzon, 2017

Chinese author Liu Cixin's trilogy, which has once again skyrocketed in popularity after its Netflix series, is also, to a certain extent, about human limitations. "The Three-Body Problem" is part of a larger story, which centers on the confrontation between Earthlings and the inhabitants of a neighboring star system. The first novel in the trilogy is notable not for its gripping plot, generally familiar to science fiction fans, but for the fact that it unfolds into a vast philosophical treatise, which begins with a moment, entirely imaginable even today, when the Universe itself begins to peer into the scientists trying to understand it. This gaze is frighteningly unkind. 

“This means that there are no laws of physics that hold true everywhere in the universe, which in turn means... that physics doesn’t exist,” Wang said, turning away from the window.