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Just finished this series. Great books. Who read them???
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Apr 5, 2023 21:49
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I did, I liked the part with the nanowires, I liked the part with the droplet, and I liked the 2D-ifier bit. Basically if people were dying in horrific and imaginative ways that is the part of the sci-fi book that usually gets my dick the hardest. Metaphorically, of course. My brain dick, that's what I was getting at. I like violent sci-fi deaths and I am done being ashamed.
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Apr 6, 2023 01:34
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The bit in the 2nd book where they can use the 4th dimension to reach inside people and rip out their heart is cool 🤙
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Apr 6, 2023 06:59
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Probably my favourite sci-fi series, goddamn is it brilliant
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Apr 6, 2023 15:20
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These never clicked for me, didn't care about any of the characters and the sci fi bits felt like Calvinball
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Apr 6, 2023 16:10
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I adored a lot of the sci-fi aspects, but found the characters and a lot of the assumptions about human behavior to be ridiculous. It felt like trauma-sci-fi which I can't blame the author for, but it got it the way of a lot of the premises. The ending scene really lanced my heart, though.
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Apr 6, 2023 16:34
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the last book in particular is just endless misery and bad things happening lol but the ideas are so good. i lvoed them
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Apr 6, 2023 16:49
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haven't read it but the bit about harvesting power all the mind upload/computer simulated heavens after the heat death of the universe rocks
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Apr 7, 2023 04:07
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I read them in the mid to late 10s and remember liking them, but the specifics really allude me. I kind of vaguely remember the things people have been posting about. I feel like every page was something completely different and crazy, but I have a vague sense that when it did explain how they were related it always made me  A friend read it and said that the rapid and diverging elements all could have been their own books, and the lack of further explanation made them like it less. I remember liking them and recommending them  the ant crawling on the gravestone might be my most concrete memory of the series, besides the game/actual planet in the tri-solar system.
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Apr 8, 2023 02:37
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cringe books that everyone insisted they were good because they were translated from chinese which was weird and vaguely patronizing/gaslighting. the dark forest is an entire that'd be done to death years before and i don't know why these books got any kind of attention.
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Apr 8, 2023 11:55
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Horizon Burning posted:cringe books that everyone insisted they were good because they were translated from chinese which was weird and vaguely patronizing/gaslighting. the dark forest is an entire that'd be done to death years before and i don't know why these books got any kind of attention. lol anyway, the audiobook for the first book was so good, honestly the only audiobook I've liked
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Apr 8, 2023 12:37
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Horizon Burning posted:cringe books that everyone insisted they were good because they were translated from chinese which was weird and vaguely patronizing/gaslighting. the dark forest is an entire that'd be done to death years before and i don't know why these books got any kind of attention. extremely cringe post
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Apr 8, 2023 14:25
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liking books is gaslighting
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Apr 8, 2023 18:39
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Horizon Burning posted:cringe books that everyone insisted they were good because they were translated from chinese which was weird and vaguely patronizing/gaslighting. uh
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Apr 9, 2023 12:55
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The hard sci-fi was neat but I also remember the author being really obviously misogynistic and homophobic in several places so
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Apr 9, 2023 14:00
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Syenite posted:The hard sci-fi was neat but I also remember the author being really obviously misogynistic and homophobic in several places so brilliant superhero scientist thinking real hard about a meek shy subservient girl he'd like to have and she becomes real and his girlfriend instantly -- lmao
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Apr 9, 2023 14:25
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the future society was cool and I liked the ending but dude writes women like an incel.
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Apr 9, 2023 14:27
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I require the perfect wife in order to save the world. No you cannot know why.
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Apr 9, 2023 14:33
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gently caress I had kind of forgotten about all that with the women.
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Apr 9, 2023 15:12
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Yeah the imaginary wife bit was... probably the worst part of the books lol
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Apr 9, 2023 15:18
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A lot of the scenes felt like the author’s fetishes bleeding through, but it was so sexless overall I just glossed it and moved on to the cool nightmare concepts like lightspeed deadzones
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Apr 9, 2023 15:57
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The woman who dooms humanity because she is a woman, who are all, as we know, weak and prone to feelings. Also the future where all the men are soft and feminine and unable to do what must be done like real men. lol at this author
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Apr 9, 2023 17:33
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Lolllll What is it about fantasy & sci-fi that always has the authors showing their whole psychosexual asses?
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Apr 9, 2023 18:08
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i read the first book and while it was cool to read, i had no desire to read another two books’ worth of it. the ideas are cool but it’s very dry
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Apr 9, 2023 18:24
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Chicken Butt posted:Lolllll Hard sci-fi/urban fantasy =  I guess. I remember checking out some of Jim Butcher's stuff and just immediately checking out because he was real creepy about women.
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Apr 9, 2023 18:38
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I remember everything being very depressing and essentially saying "even if you mind your business a bigger, unexpected entity will push your poo poo in" and its ultimately kind of nihilistic.Chicken Butt posted:What is it about fantasy & sci-fi that always has the authors showing their whole psychosexual asses?
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Apr 9, 2023 19:21
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FilthyImp posted:When you have the freedom to create a world a lot of your own biases bleed I to it, is my guess. So what you’re saying is, when my hard-SF trilogy, “The Adventures of a Bookish Nerd Who Saves The Universe” finally gets published, people will assume that because it features several scenes of the hero getting deep-tissue massages from genetically-enhanced Aubrey Plaza clones, that that’s the world I want to live in? Because it totally isn’t! I’m just really good at extrapolating from current social and technology trends.
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Apr 9, 2023 20:25
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The part with the anime tulpa wife was bad but the droplet and the nanowire and the dimensional fold stuff was great. Basically all the cool set pieces. What I am saying is it would make a good Halo game. Less of a Netflix show like I think they are doing. Make the game, Cixin Liu. (I haven't read the third book)
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Apr 9, 2023 21:01
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Chicken Butt posted:So what you’re saying is, when my hard-SF trilogy, “The Adventures of a Bookish Nerd Who Saves The Universe” finally gets published, people will assume that because it features several scenes of the hero getting deep-tissue massages from genetically-enhanced Aubrey Plaza clones, that that’s the world I want to live in? Because it totally isn’t! I’m just really good at extrapolating from current social and technology trends. please don’t post like this
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Apr 10, 2023 10:22
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There is a great adaptation of the series done entirely in Minecraft, although later season switch to original Minecraft-style animation. Season 1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCzzDQIop9Ax4AUETSFQNQEb3LObUOCg7 Season 2 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ1-YFDG-WNqa3YQBK1m3PGzqok6m2LZV Season 3 https://www.youtube.com/@hiroyamashoto235
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Apr 10, 2023 14:27
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Wilkins Micawber posted:The part with the anime tulpa wife was bad but the droplet and the nanowire and the dimensional fold stuff was great. Basically all the cool set pieces. What I am saying is it would make a good Halo game. Less of a Netflix show like I think they are doing. Make the game, Cixin Liu. (I haven't read the third book) The Netflix show is finished. Third book is really good
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Apr 10, 2023 15:17
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Hoooo boy, op, where should I even start? First of all, they are very autistic books. The characters are bland and lifeless and most of the books is just exposition. The waifu poo poo was bizarre and would not fly coming from a western author and every protagonist in the three books is the same underachieving loner incel character just with a different name. Overall, I liked the books.
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Apr 10, 2023 16:39
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seeing now people get weird about it being a chinese author huh
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Apr 10, 2023 16:48
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GABA ghoul posted:Hoooo boy, op, where should I even start? First of all, they are very autistic books. The characters are bland and lifeless and most of the books is just exposition. The waifu poo poo was bizarre and would not fly coming from a western author and every protagonist in the three books is the same underachieving loner incel character just with a different name. Overall, I liked the books. agreed. I don't think you really miss out on anything if you just read the wikipedia summary
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Apr 10, 2023 17:21
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Famethrowa posted:seeing now people get weird about it being a chinese author huh Hooo boy, a racism accusation. Western sci-fi is of course full of sexism and misogynism, but I don't think you can pull off a mega bestseller with such weird women issues nowadays anymore. The market has become too sensitive to this poo poo. I mean, the incel hero protagonist has this submissive fantasy anime wife that has no soul or inner life of her own and exists only to adore and compliment him and then the government hires a woman to play that anime waifu in real life to motivate him to work because only the incel loser can save the planet from destruction. And all of it is played absolutely 100% straight as a romantic love story, without any hint of self-awareness, irony or criticism. The woman lacks an inner life and is just extremely happy to serve and to save humanity by being an anime waifu. She of course falls in love with him and they have children.
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Apr 10, 2023 17:43
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GABA ghoul posted:Hooo boy, a racism accusation. Western sci-fi is of course full of sexism and misogynism, but I don't think you can pull off a mega bestseller with such weird women issues nowadays anymore. The market has become too sensitive to this poo poo. I mean, the incel hero protagonist has this submissive fantasy anime wife that has no soul or inner life of her own and exists only to adore and compliment him and then the government hires a woman to play that anime waifu in real life to motivate him to work because only the incel loser can save the planet from destruction. And all of it is played absolutely 100% straight as a romantic love story, without any hint of self-awareness, irony or criticism. The woman lacks an inner life and is just extremely happy to serve and to save humanity by being an anime waifu. She of course falls in love with him and they have children. so you didn't read the books then because you don't know what happened after that, do you
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Apr 10, 2023 17:45
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those curious easterners really have a weird relationship with women, compared to us, the noble west who simply do not tolerate it.
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Apr 10, 2023 17:46
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The first book gets so dumb so fast around 60% of the way through.
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Apr 10, 2023 18:10
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Black August posted:so you didn't read the books then because you don't know what happened after that, do you I can't read
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Apr 10, 2023 18:16
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There was a conversation I believe at the beginning of the third book that was about our understanding of elementary particles and how we are close to full understanding of the “basement” of the universe and how these elementary particles cannot be broken down further and how this would infer the the idea of a “ceiling” somewhere in the universe. That one got me. Dark forest theory reveal was great. Loved these books.
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Apr 10, 2023 20:06
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