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This is a special book. It started slow for about the first third, then in the middle third it started to get interesting, then the last third blew my mind. This is what I love about good science fiction - it pushes your thinking about where things can go.
It is a 2015 Hugo winner, and translated from its original Chinese, which made it interesting in just a different way from most things I've read. For instance the intermixing of Chinese revolutionary history - how they kept accusing people of ...more
It is a 2015 Hugo winner, and translated from its original Chinese, which made it interesting in just a different way from most things I've read. For instance the intermixing of Chinese revolutionary history - how they kept accusing people of ...more
For me this was a podcast, Stories from the Stars, that Macmillan put up in July... 19 episodes, 4 per week... a free sample to drive readers/listeners to the next two books in the trilogy. I thought it was fantastic (which I recall was the response of sci-fi community when it first came out). Loved it, worth the time to listen or read, and highly recommend.
As a Westerner with no real skill in reading, listening to, or even knowing many people with Chinese names, I struggled with the large cast ...more
As a Westerner with no real skill in reading, listening to, or even knowing many people with Chinese names, I struggled with the large cast ...more
Hard sci-fi that intertwines the bloody history of China's Cultural Revolution with a tale of modern- day Chinese physicists undergoing a crisis of faith when the laws of physics seem to be unraveling, a crisis involving a sinister force that I can't say much about without getting spoilery.
The narrative is sometimes uneven, and in true hard science-fiction form, characterization (with a few exceptions) takes a back seat to the scientific premises being worked through, but those ideas are fascina ...more
The narrative is sometimes uneven, and in true hard science-fiction form, characterization (with a few exceptions) takes a back seat to the scientific premises being worked through, but those ideas are fascina ...more
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