Thanks for checking out the video!

" I am a tomb " Loved this part from Deaths End

The Chinese Series of the three body problem was amazing. 10 out of 10

I finished this trilogy about 3 years ago and still think about it a lot. It's very different from every sci-fi book I've read. Nice collection of Berserk and WoT at the back by the way!

Death's End is my favorite book of all time. I've never read such mindblowing shit in my life. 🤯

Since you mentioned good quotes, my most favourite quote of the series is from the second-last chapter, "The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings has always been to become as grand as their thoughts." Truly a profound, beautiful, and moving statement. Encapsulates my own views on the universe and reality really well.

This series broke my mind in the best way possible. Some of the ideas presented are truly powerful and mind blowing. I especially loved book 2

I just finished Three-body this week and as a physicist I have to say that it was a romp. I had a great time even while it creeped me out. You are not wrong when you were talking about first contact. For the foreseeable future we should be doing our best to, essentially, hide. Blurting out our presence into the universe at large is not in our best interest. At least that’s how I see it.

This trilogy is one of the must mind-blowing thing I read, specially the second and the third book. Some times I still think about the dark forest concept and I wonder if that the search for alien life it's worth it, haha. The 4 book is pretty good, I was hesitant to read it, until I read an interview with cixin Liu and he said that when he read the fanfiction and he realized there was some gaps he didn't notice on the trilogy.

Yessss! Dark Forest is in my top 3 favorite sci fi books of all time.

Amazing review! You did an amazing job setting up the intrigue and describing the experience without spoilers. I can get behind characters representing ideas and look forward to reading this trilogy!

You have a great ability to articulate your thoughts without spoilers! Been interested in the first book for a while. Hopefully get to it sometime this year 👏🏼 my tbr going crazy

Such a great trilogy! I have genuinely thought about it continuously since finishing it last year. Awesome review man!

I'm just about to start the Three Body Problem- great informative video. Thankyou for no spoilers.

Thanks for the video! I keep hearing about this trilogy. I usually put a lot of importance on prose and characters when reading, but I think it's best to just look at sci-fi through a different lens. I'm not very well read in sci-fi yet myself, but I'm interested in stories exploring first contact and existential dread, haha, and you've made this series sound fascinating!

The trisolarans continue to keep me up at night. Great review, would love to watch a discussion!

I love your reviews! This is one of those series that both intrigues and terrifies me. I am generally more of a character-focused reader, but then I can also really appreciate it when stories get more philosophical/experimental. Also, I know that Ken Liu is the translator, so it's kinda interesting to hear that the prose isn't anything to write home about, since Liu's own prose is some of the best out there (in my opinion). I wonder how hard it is to stay true to the original text and to not insert a bit of your own style into the translation. In any case, it seems like he succeeded at that pretty well here! Anyway, it sounds like this series is one that will stick with you for a while, whether you like it or not. I am going to keep it on my radar! Thanks for the amazing review, loved hearing your thoughts as always 🤩

Jimmy Nutts, constantly piquing my interest and forcing me to add to my TBR! Great video man. Always enjoy your reviews and thoughtful words.

I almost DNFd book2 at the 30%~40% mark, the cringe relationship you mention was killing the enjoyment for me, glad I powered through and kept on reading because this series changed my life, my perception of our world, our species and our universe. Something so powerful and thought-provoking is top 10 material imho, looking forward to the full spoiler review😊

It’s finally here!! Everybody calm down!! 🎉🎉 congrats on finishing a very dense series Jimmy

I was hoping you would like it. Your video really explains all that's great about it, and the things people might get annoyed by in the books. Great video, as always. This is a FANTASTIC series. Just a series that doesn't leave you the same at the end. The series makes you question so much about the word and universe we live in and then it crushes you at times. What an experience this is. And when you said bingeable, absolutely. The third book especially was like that for me. I spent a day reading it, went to sleep and then 2h later I had to get up and finish the book because I just couldn't stop thinking about it. A 5* series for me. oh and the ant scene! Wow, talk about trippy narration! - and now for a recommendation: Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer. What 3BP does with physics and astrophysics, Terra Ignota does with philosophy and political theory. And it's bingeable! Perfection

Jimmy, great review, very balanced and I have to agree with you on the ideas. I had Deaths End in the top 10 on my top 209...and Dark Forest in the top 20 I think...and it's completely for the ideas. You'd be hard pressed to find scifi that has more big ideas per page than Deaths End. Unbelievable. Great video

Great review. I am watching the tencent series and am still trying to wrap my mind around the story by interpreting the subtitles. But obviously you have put more thought than I have.

Just finished Three Body Problem, diving right into Dark Forest. Been looking forward to this video.

Great job with this review! You really sold the book well without giving anything away. Any fan of Pale Blue Dot is a fan of mine!...Jarrod

Regarding what you were saying, about not being impressed by the author's prose, have you considered that something might have got lost in translation? I have heard native Chinese people say that there are a whole host of cultural references that non-Chinese people just won't pick up on. So, give Cixin Liu the benefit of the doubt, here! I was amazed that one person could come up with so many astonishing ideas and make such a compelling story involving them.

Great discussion Jimmy! Im reading Three Body right now (book 1) and I’m absolutely immersed. It’s breaking my brain for sure lol. I’m a huge fan of Neil Degrasse-Tyson too.

Finishing up Speaking Bones now and then I'm starting Three-Body Problem. I was curious if you've read "The Wandering Earth" by Cixin Liu? It's his collection of 10 short stories. I saw your review of Ted Chiang's short story collection so I figured you might be curious to check this out. Awesome video, keep up the good work!

Sounds fascinating. Might read this summer.

I ordered these books few days ago and now i see your review, i will receive it tomorrow and i really can't wait to read them.

We had a very similar experience with the series, and I did indeed also find that it had tremendous reread value. I’m hopeful we can find some more high concept sci-fi bangers from the likes of Reynolds, Hamilton, Banks and more!

Jimmy - I didn’t realise you liked astrophysics. I have a bachelors in astrophysics, and I have a friend who is doing a PhD in astrophysics. I’ve been thinking about joining your patreon for a while but now I think I need to to give you all of the astrophysics recommendations. I know Becky chambers ‘long way to a small angry planet’ is a bit of a love/hate relationship. But she has another book ‘to be taught if fortunate’ which is only 120 pages and is jam-packed with astrobiology and is amazing. Would recommend this.

Yeah the characters all behaved with actual cold logic and rationale, unlike how people are actually expected to behave in these types of situations. I actually enjoyed this, and this way it didn't detract from the ideas.

Sounds quite cool the way you talk about it, Jimmy! A friend handed me their copy telling me, 'I didn't like it. You can keep the book when you're finished'. So it just went on the shelf and stayed there. But maybe it's time to take it down and read it. Just out of interest: Have you read Erikson's Rejoice. A Knife to the Heart?

This actually did change my mind on sci fi surprisingly! Read it right after finishing the Age of Madness trilogy too lol

Just finished book one and am keenly interested in more! The horror of the "blinking" hit hard, and then the revelation of the man behind the curtain, so to speak, was really quite wonderful. The parabolic eyes have me extremely intrigued haha Have you read House of Suns by Reynolds? It's a single novel with some less pessimistic but similarly out there concepts. It explores how crazy technology can go, but also has some great characters. Recommend it highly for a space romp that'll open your mind!

Two questions for you. Have you heard of the UKpostsr Isaac Arthur? He is a large channel who focuses on the science within science fiction, usually without getting into the calculus and more so the qualitative possibilities that technological advancement could entail. His range goes from near future (say what could be achieved within 100 years) to Kardashev 3 level topics. He also talks about my next main question. What did you think about the Fermi paradox, both pre and post reading this series if you can specify? More specifically, why do you think we haven't interacted with aliens (Assuming scientists at Area 51 aren't hiding the truth)? I personally believe that intelligent civilisations have a hard cap on what could be achieved, largely due to organisational difficulties and or expending resources too quickly to advance to a higher techno-organisational stage. Within this standard exists a species nuking itself to a different era, then not having enough resources to become a properly interstellar civilisation. I think humanity will, as a best case scenario, remain interplanetary. Worse case scenario, one of the numerous cases of close nuclear exchanges we keep having goes hot, keeping humanity stuck to Earth in fairly small and harsh communities.

starting series tomorrow. watching this again to get pumped up.

thanks Jimbo. Just a reminder it's been a year since you claimed on a chatting with nutts feat Mr. Walker from Florida that you were gonna read Book of the new sun. And yet you haven't. You and all the rest of them. Phillip, Mike, Mr. Walker, and you Jimbo.

One of my favorite sci-fi stories! I’ve been enjoying the Tencent series here on UKposts ( Three Body) ….. it’s a very good adaptation of this. The soundtrack is pretty good too.

I fellt the same, that I was scared about ot finding any sci fi that gave me the same eary feeling Liu Cixin gave me during that trillogie. but always rememebr, he wrote other books too and they all have amazing and great ideas and concepts. I can recommend Ball lightning and the Wandering Earth!

Yessss this is the best opinion. The third book will haunt me for my entire life

So I love Bakker and have yet to delve into SiFi (and I want to) and what I'm gathering is this is right up my alley??

I recommend the 4th book the redemption of time, it ties the whole of the story together fairly well with a satisfying ending.

Great series, for those of you don't know, Liu took a lot of inspirations from the various dynasty of Chinese history, China as a civilization is the longest continuous civilizatoin of all human civilization, not that there aren't olders ones than China (Egyptian, Mesopotamia etc but none of them survived), but Chinese civilization is the only one that survived continuously, the current Chinese writing can be directly tracked back 5000 year ago on turtle bone carvings. If you time travel a Chinese person today to few thousands years ago, he or she would have little problem communicating with the people there. It also relly helps that Chinese are obsessed about history that means most of what happened are actually well recorded. In those writings, one can witnesses the rise and fall of powerful dynasties, the golden age of civilization and its ruin and destruction etc, epic rulers that made a real difference and bad rulers that piss it all away, power struggle and political intrigue. And all of this were continuously repeated over and over again, this must says something about human nature. I feel like a lot of themes like that are similarly explored in the books, this is why this series feels so different, it tries to incorporate so much ideas from Chinese history and combined it with sifi. And I did have essential crisis for a while after reading this series, and I also feel like the last book was way too rushed, each ideas in the book can easily be a series on its own.

I bought the first book in the evening on the16th and finished it on the 19th, which is literally the fastest i've ever read a book that was over 100 pages. I am taking the sequeal a bit slower because I want to enjoy the series more. Unfortunately at 3 minutes in when you say that I should experience the series as blind as I can made me realize I didnt' want to hear opinions informed by the sequel since I have literally no clue how far forward these books will go and I want to keep as spoiler-free as possible. Unfortunately I have to stop watching the video which sucks casue it hurts your alogrithm's watch time even though I really appreciated your content for those 3 minutes. ANyway, good content

I enjoyed your take on Three Body Problem. I watched...and enjoyed very much...the Chinese produced series (not the Netflix one) and have just started the first book.

My daughter put me onto these three books . I have purchased them and I am getting reviews of the series.

I wished for the trilogy for my birthday and just got them, so I decided to watch this to hype me up before starting to read the first book now. I'm gonna come back to the video when I've finished the trilogy and edit this comment with my thoughts!

Give the Tencent show a shot, its a very very good and faithful tv adaptation and they went all out with the production

Loved your review! Chimed in because I wanted to warn you not to read book 4. Even understanding the fan fiction disclaimers, I tried it. I got about half way through it before I had to let it go when it started to undercut my memories of the series. Nothing is safe in book 4. There’s so much retconning that almost every aspect of the other books is connected and happily resolved in an almost magical way. The uncertainty and lack of reasons for some characters’ actions are all given retroactive motivations that serve some larger 4D chess concept that looks like a crazy photos-connected-with-red-yarn conspiracy. Leave it at Death’s End and walk away.

As a reformed Christian I don’t agree with your overall worldview you hint towards in the video, but I throughly enjoyed the review and it has made me move this series up my tbr. As always, thanks for the awesome content!

4:27 I’m glad you said that because that’s me in a nutshell. I really do like sci-fi and fantasy thematically, but the writing generally isn’t of a quality that I find satisfactory. And it’s not that I think the writing is bad per se, it’s just that it’s usually written at about a YA level which, again, is OK but leaves me unsatisfied. And I know that for a lot of people such a sentiment comes off as elitist and I really don’t mean for it to be. I don’t thumb my nose at it or people who enjoy it, it’s just not for me. And I really do strive to find sci-fi and fantasy that does achieve that standard of writing that I like because there is some out there and I was hoping this series would be among those, but by your comments here and ones I have heard on another video, it seems to not be the case.

I think I've been avoiding this series because I hear so many contradictory reviews. Some people love it and some people did not vibe with it at all. I think I have to put it on my tbr and just find out for myself.

I also plan to read a first contact SF this year and is the "Xenogenesis" trilogy by Octavia E. Butler. I am looking forward to get my Romanian translation of "The Rememberance of Earth's Past". While 90% of what I read is in English, I am new to SF and I want to make sure I understand the terms.

If you are going to read the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds I suggest you look up the chronological order of the stories first. Reynolds published several short stories before he wrote the first novel Revelation Space. Those stories are in Galactic North. Those stories provide a lot of background knowledge that make the series a much more enjoyable and easy to follow read.

Ken Liu was a perfect choice to translate these novels into english, because he's such a strong english language writer already. That said, I didn't not find 3Body an enjoyable series to read. I found it depressing, it amplified my already overwhelming pessimism about humanity and our potential compared to our performance as a species. Also, i had a really hard time keeping track of who was who because there are so damn many of them.

The best way to describe this genre is HARD Sci-Fi. Maybe try Blindsight by Peter Watts next?

Some of my thoughts on "Death's End": 1. You need to have read the previous books to understand this book. There is no summary or reminder in the book. Many characters and situations from the previous books are mentioned without any explanation. In my opinion that is a flaw that could be easily corrected with a few paragraphs of explananation. I read the first 2 books a few months ago, but I don't remember the details. 2. It is difficult to believe that the swordholder would be a single person. It is much more plausible that many leaders, presidents or prime-ministers of the world would all be swordholders and be able to press the button. And the deterrence weapon would only be activated if all, or at least a majority of the swordholders pressed the button. Putting the fate of the entire human race on a single person is too inplausible. 3. Many elements of the book are based on real science. It is difficult to know which elements are from the author, and which elements are from other authors or scientists. I wished there was an a bibliography with all the sources. 4. There is no mention of a Noah's Ark, at least in this book. Maybe there is in the previous books? I don't remember. If humanity were doomed to extinction, it is quite probable they would try to build and launch spaceships that worked as Noah's Ark. Such spaceship should have libraries with most human knowledge, and frozen embryos and seeds of most animals and vegetables, including several human embryos. The purpose would be that hopefully an advanced civilization would intercept and be able to revive the embryos, so humanity could survive and rebuild somewhere in the Cosmos. A more advanced Noah's Ark would have artificial incubators able to develop and give birth to the human embryos, and robot nannies able to take care, raise and educate the babies. An even more advanced Noah's Ark would have human adults in hibernation. A Noah's Ark is not that difficult to build and it is feasible, at least in its simplest form, with today's technology. Many arks can be built and launched and if at least one of them succeeds, then the human civilization could still exist and thrive somewhere in the galaxy. 5. If an alien civilization were to try to conquer the Earth, would they even bother to talk to humans? Do humans bother to talk to ants that might be living on a property where humans want to build a new house? Humans just build the house and kill any ants that stand in the way. Just like ants are completely ignored by humans, an alien civilization would just ignore humans and just kill any human that stood in the way. So to survive all you have to do is not to stand in the way of the aliens. The only problem is that aliens could want to occupy the entire planet, and possibly there would be nowhere to go to survive, except maybe outer space. And humans fleeing Earth would probably be completely ignored by the aliens. 6. Could you sacrifice your loved ones to accomplish a goal? Soldiers are supposed to sacrifice their own lives in order a accomplish a mission. But could they sacrifice the lives of their family and friends, in order to accomplish a greater goal, for example to save the country? The lives of the many are more important than the lives of the few? Even though that is not the focus of the book, I think it is one of the most interesting points in the book, particularly embodied in the character of Thomas Wade. He seems to be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish a goal. Does the end justify the means? Would you kill millions to save billions? You are dammed if you do, you are dammed if you don't. In order to save humanity you need to lose your own humanity. In order to save, you need to kill. In order to have peace you need to go to war. In order to survive you need to kill yourself. What is the point of saving humanity if you need to become cold, cruel and inhumane? There in no humanity left to be saved. At this point everything becomes paradoxical and meaningless. In order to save humanity Thomas Wade decides to disobey orders, to commit crimes, to kill people. That is the conflict between Thomas Wade and Cheng Xin. That seems to be an almost impossible, unsolvable moral dilemma.

best I have read, such an insane trilogy

I wish Cixin Liu would read Heinlein's "The number of the Beast." At the end, there is a gathering of many of his fictional beings and in one paragraph, there are listed various universes by different sci fi writers. He writes about fictional universes, " We would be in any world that takes our universe as a model but far enough from the sun so that it appears as second or third magnitude. That wouldn't have to be far; our sun is pretty faint. So this would be our Darkover Universe, or Niven's known space or Dr. Williamson's Legion of Space Universe, or the Star Trek universe or Anderson's world of the Paleosontechnic League, or Dr. Smith's Galactic Galactic Patrol world or several more." Amazing to have listed all these fictional universes into one paragraph and have our minds expand to include them all.

Science fiction is usually more about the ideas whereas fantasy is more about the characters. There are relatively few hard sf books with very in depth characterization, but you pretty much have to accept that as a matter of course. But if you liked this, I'd recommend Robert L Forward (Dragon's Egg perhaps) and Charles Sheffield as two good hard sf writers. David Brin as well. You can't go far wrong with sci fi written by physicists. I have yet to read this trilogy, but it's definitely on my tbr.

The ending became more of a question, I was hoping they'd explore more of the collapsed dimension, it's likely to be in one dimension by then before it can collapse into 0. It's a fantasy, why not end the story at the 11th dimension after the big bang. I don't know, would've been nice to see what the universe would look like there.

Besides this trilogy, another two I am particular fond of are, Ball Lightning and Time After Nova.

I’m on book 2 and I’m pumped 🫡

Really curious, what on the last page did you not like?

As im reading the first of these three books i keep thinking about a funny conversation i had with a chinese friend as we were standing in line waiting to see the movie crouching Tiger. She joked that the heros or lovers will die at the end of the movie. I said: why? Did you see this movie already? She said no. But they always die at the end of the movie. I said: I heard it was a love story. She said: it is, that’s why they die at the end. So while reading the three body problem, I thought it had great ideas, wonderful imagination, a different way of see our place in the universe but the relationships were cold and impersonal. That some things may had been lost in translation. It will give you lectures before anything would happen. You will not find any characters to cling to, or to have sympathy for. But the incredible imagination had me glued to the story. No simple storyline of good versus evil bad against good. The world and our existence are a lot more complex than that. this book captures that. It is a mature book with mature ideas and I would hope other sci-fi authors break away from their traditional narrative and storytelling and try something different, like the Three Body Problem author did.

I haven't read the books but have just finished watching the 30 episode series. It got pretty draggy in many places but the thinking underneath the writing was fascinating enough to hold me in there. Two things in the books that you referred to are the clipped style of English translation and the relationships between characters. I have no idea of how nuanced Chinese conversation is but listening to the Chinese speech patterns it constantly sounded abrupt and combative. Pair that with the poor quality English subtitles and I often wondered if constant interpersonal confrontation is what the author intended or if there was no effort to make the overall production cross the culture barrier. You also mention ants in your review, another thing I found strange. There are lone ants or lines of ants walking across windows and mirrors in many places but I got no sense of what imagery they were suggesting. OK, the aliens called humans 'bugs' in a late episode of the series, but I was left feeling that the ants might have gotten some explanation in the book but not in the tv show. I'm Australian and still can't figure out why they had an Aussie with a very broad accent playing the US Colonel. That was very weird. The only thing I can come up with was that it was political censorship, they didn't want to have the American accent featured in such a prominent role among the good guys. There were several instances of obvious censorship in the series, such as blurring out Western tee-shirts and words missing from the middle of sentences in the subtitles.

I'm certain you would love Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia. The Bakker of sci fi.

have you watched the recent 30 eps Chinese adaption

I read that fanfic sequel in Chinese. If you see that book as a sequel of Death's End, it's not worth to read. But if you read it as a independent sci-fi, it's okay.

Astrophysics? I have a kitty cat named Fritz Zwicky... Most people don't get the reference lol but you actually might!

Check out Baxter's Xeelee series ("Ring") if you like gonzo galactic physics. Btw, Ken "Danelion Dynasty" Liu wrote the English translation of Three Body Problem. A week after this video, Jimmy Nutts mysteriously committed suicide. I just saw The Wandering Earth 2 in theaters, which had an awesome space elevator. It's based on a story by the Three Body Problem author. Ugh the tv show is twice as long as the audiobook.

My favorite female character is YeWenjie and favorite male character is ZhangBeihai. They are the only two charming characters for me in the whole series of the books.

You had me at calculus, hate that shit!

I've read the trilogy a few years ago but now I'm curious about the English translation; noticed that a lot of English speakers describe the writing as "dry" or "short and sharp" - which is different from my experience with it. (To be fair - I didn't read it in Chinise, so comparing one translation to another still says little about the original). This is highly subjective but I feel like even though the story explores terrifying and cruel side of existence it actually made me see life in a more positive way. But either way - it was a good read.

The all knowing Nutt God watches over us all

I still need to read Death's End but took a break after book 2 because my brain needed time to heal from being broken. Lol

This series was thought provoking but in the end, after thinking about the concepts presented it looked less and less possible. That's both the physics side and the dark forest concept in the real world. Many properties of the laws of physics emerge from properties of space-time. Changing the number of dimensions above 3 rewrites the laws in a way to prevent existence of any stable multi-particle system. Changing speed of light immediately changes space permittivity and slowing it down will immediately cause all electrons to be ejected from all atoms while the nuclei themselves will become radioactive in order to reach the new minimal energy state. Even the dark forest concept has significant holes in it. You can't hide in real space and even we are close to detect bio-signatures on other planets. A dark forest mentality necessitates destruction of every planet with life on it and thus earth should have been attacked 2.4 billion years ago. Secondly, launching a dark forest strike is detectable and paints a target on the perpetrator similar to a country launching a nuke. In the hunter analogy the victim might expose himself to the hunters but the first hunter to shoot also exposes himself so it's better not to shoot.

Redemption of time is worth reading

Is Lindsay going to discuss this series with you ? If not this is a formal request

The themes sound really great and I do like the science parts like in project hail mary, however I didn't enjoy the philosophical parts of dune messiah and that sometimes hinders my enjoyment of some sci fi books.

Agree that these books are just mind bouncing-ly expanding. I wanted to reread but didn’t have the time, so I created a chapter by chapter recap for everyone else in the same position as me! ukposts.info/have/v-deo/e2Zpro9snmdztHk.html

The Commonwealth trilogy will blow you away. MLM is the scariest alien villain ever written

Not sure if you read Hyperion. It's an oldie but goodie.

how did the first book break your mind? it was basically a flat, young adult book at a level for for teens. i heard the last two are deeper, ill get to them, but i am in no hurry. hype.

when the heck does the netflix come out? this series was terrifying. if you haven't read hyperion cantos, do.

U should go check Chinese movie wandering earth that is based on book of same author

This is the first time that I know that this is a trilogy. I really thought The Three Body Problem is a standalone.

Great book, except every character has Asperger's for some reason

I'm reading the first book now and having a hard time making myself finish it. Everybody says it gets good in book two, but idk if I'll finish these last 3 chapters. I don't see how everyone seems to love these books. To me, the writing is horrible. Why would scientists kill themselves because physics seems to not work? Actual physicist would take on the challenge and try to figure out what's going on. All the other happenings seem thrown in for no other reason than to push the story forward. I really hope the second book pics up because I was so looking forward to this series

My favorite sci fi books and in my opinion closest to what I would imagine. Listened to them on Audio 10 years ago. Enjoying the current show and looking forward to the Netflix version. I would have no problem calling out to the Aliens just to get rid of Trump...😃 Tho I also do not see Humans as a pinnacle of life on Earth or believe in an afterlife. To me I don't have this enormous ego thinking that we are Gods gift to earth. We are to the Earth what cockroaches are to us.

The Universe is very scary. Thats my main take away. I didnt like the end of the last book, but the rest was amazing so many big ideas.

If you liked this trilogy, then you'll likely enjoy Revelation Space. Similiar feel and scale, slightly better characterwork, weirder universe.

I found the only "big" blemish to be the end of the first book. The POV being taken to that other place. The author took such care to paint foreign things very foreign, so that part, with casually throwing our figures of speech, in the mix felt a bit like an afterthought. Like there was a need to quickly confirm still that we're really dealing with something alien. I think it was almost sloppy, when seeing how well similar matters are handled in the latter books. It didn't ruin anything for me now as I could continue straight to the next part, but might have really bothered me if I read these as they came out.

I was wondering when this was going to be covered. Rarely do Western audiences get Chinese sci-fi novels in their own language, even rarer are they such world class bangers.

what do you think the Wandering Earth?

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If you tried to convince me to read it... it worked. Hope your happy😠 Jk jk lol it was already in my TBR but your video was very good and made it more interesting. Might be one of my next reads soon

Anti-climactic. Anti-climactic. Not anti-climatic. Means something completely different.