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sullat posted:What adoring wives lol? the primary motivation for the protagonist of the second book?
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Dark Forest was def the most interesting of them because it at least postulated a cool problem of 'How do you win a war when the enemy can spy on anything' But yea concurring with the overall 'Despite interesting ideas, the prose wasn't very good, and by the time of the third book it just went off a cliff' Like the concepts were fun, but I remain confused as to why everyone raved so much about it back when
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Famethrowa posted:not dark forest, but similar depressing take on colony ships being the last humans alive in the universe is Tau Zero by Poul Anderson. scratches the same itch of applied theoretical physics causing a massive change in human society, in this case a colony ship unable to brake once in lightspeed and traveling in time until the galaxy burns out I bought and read this book based on the recommendation in this thread and it loving sucks. The concept is interesting but it's heavily padded by incredibly hamfisted drama about the crewmembers sleeping around with each other for some reason. All of the main characters do it and repeatedly declare that it is important that they do it, even when they have someone as a permanent partner. At one point in the story they need to lift up the spirits of some depressed scientist man who is important for their mission in order to make him cooperate and they do it by having the main female character agree to become his sexual partner. The character closest to a protagonist is an authoritarian fascist. At first it appears that he might actually be the antagonist, but then he keeps being proven right and everybody goes to him for advice. The most cringeworthy relationship stuff in Three Body Problem was better than this and the "hard sci-fi" part is like 10 % of the novel.
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I just saw Swedish film Aniara, where a colony ship on its way to Mars gets sent on a one way trip to the big empty after an engineering mishap. Bleak European existentialism and drug fuelled sex cults ensue.
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Famethrowa posted:I wanted an entire book focused on this. that felt like a geniunely unique perspective on the cultural revolution. If anyone has suggestions on another contemporary Chinese author with these perspectives from the mainland I'd be very interested. So I've been looking and it's drat hard to google anything that isn't published by a lit professor from the US or UK. I did find this which seems... kinda relevant? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59553671-the-subplot
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jazzyjay posted:I just saw Swedish film Aniara, where a colony ship on its way to Mars gets sent on a one way trip to the big empty after an engineering mishap. Bleak European existentialism and drug fuelled sex cults ensue. That’s the most depressing film I’ve ever seen. Still don’t know what the point of that last scene was except a big downer exclamation point on the whole thing
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I’ve been reading this as well, does anyone know if the prose is considered good in Chinese, or is it a faithful translation of some uninspired writing? Partway through the second book and it’s funny they keep refrigerating people so they can have their deadly diseases cured in the future but there’s never been a mention of the global defense effort focusing on medicine. Hope that turns into a very funny mistake
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Fruits of the sea posted:So I've been looking and it's drat hard to google anything that isn't published by a lit professor from the US or UK. drat, thanks, that's not exactly what I was hoping for, but it's certainly something that will scratch the itch.
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Why were the aliens trying so hard to kill Lou ji anyway? Is it ever implied they could see the future? He would have just been some random loser if they had just sat on their hands
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Agreeing the author is misogynist because Cheng is the biggest idiot ever written and just fucks up plans of the male characters
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What would win (in a woman’s mind): saving every human life in existence and the continued existence of the human race vs holding a baby exactly once
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Jenny Agutter posted:Why were the aliens trying so hard to kill Lou ji anyway? Is it ever implied they could see the future? He would have just been some random loser if they had just sat on their hands because they had spied on what's her face telling luo ji about the axioms of galactic civilization over the grave at the beginning. they knew she was correct and that he could use it to figure out the dark forest theory which would allow humans to beat the trisolarans by broadcasting their location. i think.
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a.p. dent posted:because they had spied on what's her face telling luo ji about the axioms of galactic civilization over the grave at the beginning. they knew she was correct and that he could use it to figure out the dark forest theory which would allow humans to beat the trisolarans by broadcasting their location. i think. That’s all true and doesn’t at all negate my question. Just a dumb way to get characters where he wanted them
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Finished this trilogy and I agree with most people that the second book had the most interesting conflicts, the third book was kind of a slog even if the ending scene was pretty good. Lot of dumb parts though, particularly the one wallfacer getting stoned to death accompanied by the most ham handed dialogue imaginable. If you’re thinking of reading this but haven’t read any Stanisław Lem yet, check out that Lem first to get a good dose of pessimistic sci fi with much better prose
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The prose and characters are largely lukewarm rear end, it has some interesting ideas and scenes though.
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sebmojo posted:The prose and characters are largely lukewarm rear end, it has some interesting ideas and scenes though. I also liked scifi from a non Western perspective but agreed. Also agreed that women occupy a...special...place in his writing
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Woodsy Owl posted:The first book gets so dumb so fast around 60% of the way through. Yeah I felt like I was getting trolled when it cut to the aliens. Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I could like, have accepted this if these books were 40+ years older, but this poo poo isn't even ten years old yet and it reads like something from that time period. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fje8el375T0 Any thoughts? Looks like substantial changes to the tone of the book, which I can't disagree with. The headset is no longer standard VR, now it's alien tech. I'm assuming John Bradley is playing Wang Miao.
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Updog Scully posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fje8el375T0 yeah that looks potentially interesting. ayy jess hong is a kiwi i thought i recognised those flat vowels. she was in this bonkers thing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14301316/
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There's also this ARG thing https://donotanswer.co/ Not sure what they're going for with this one. Are people going to jump into an ARG for the sake of... the first season of a show they've never watched and know nothing about?
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I don’t see how this can’t be, at the very least, a very interesting watch. It’s a book so rammed with concepts that would be visually stunning that good art direction and effects could halfway-carry it. Yeah I guess Sam Tarly is ‘numbers appear in my vision’ guy. I wonder who’s going to play the chad Luo Ji.
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I'm pretty hopeful about the Netflix show. I binged my way through the Tencent adaptation a few weeks ago while I was sick, and while I really liked it, it was super bloated and drawn out. The Netflix version is going to be much shorter and more streamlined (8 eps vs 30), and they're already tossing in characters from later books (Thomas Wade and Sophon confirmed) which makes me think they've got full series plans. For all of GoT's issues, D&D are good at spectacles, and if they do things right, this will definitely be a spectacle. And at least this time they're working with a complete source material. If they can make the heavier science stuff digestible in a TV format and create more interesting characters, I think it should be entertaining at the very least. e: also, I just finished Death's End yesterday and god drat. I really hope either the Tencent series or the Netflix series makes it to the climax of that book. discoukulele fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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Netflix finally released the passcode to https://donotanswer.co It's "santi". Looks like a trailer's coming out on the 9th. The preview had some very neat graphics.
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They're also going to have a booth set up at CES on the 9th with a VR Three Body experience. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/netflix-3-body-problem-immersive-experience-ces-2024-1235848549/
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Some early photos of the CES booth with VR headsets. The trailer should be coming out this afternoon. https://twitter.com/AlexTench/status/1744443704037773724 https://twitter.com/3bodyuniverse/status/1744779910563152122
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Trailer's out!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogSbMD6EcY Strong start with the Radiohead remix.
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Yeah, the trailer looks awesome. I'm hyped. And this looks sick 
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Almost sounds like part of the plot: https://twitter.com/ruima/status/1773604646386594079
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that's insane. Really taking the lessons from breaking bad to heart.
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since when did they let you make tweets so long e, for folks who don't want to go to twitter / prevent link rot: quote:Crazy story of the week:
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