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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/books/transcript-president-obama-on-what-books-mean-to-him.html

>What are some of those books?

>It’s interesting, the stuff I read just to escape ends up being a mix of things — some science fiction. For a while, there was a three-volume science-fiction novel, the “Three-Body Problem” series —

>Oh, Liu Cixin, who won the Hugo Award.

>— which was just wildly imaginative, really interesting. It wasn’t so much sort of character studies as it was just this sweeping —

>It’s really about the fate of the universe.

>Exactly. The scope of it was immense. So that was fun to read, partly because my day-to-day problems with Congress seem fairly petty — not something to worry about. Aliens are about to invade. [Laughter]