Opinions on Rembrance of Earth's Past Series
Finished reading the Remembrance of Earth's Past series (i.e. The Three-Body Problem and the other books) and have opinions. WARNING: SPOILERS
Overall I liked it a lot. I felt like the books could've been a lot tighter though, and Liu Cixin really needed an editor. Lots of cool ideas, but I did not care about the 3 old guys arguing with each other in the first part of the second book. It gave some background info, but that could've been collapsed into a few paragraphs. I also didn't need the whole backstory of some some ship's cook whose plot relevance was about 10 seconds long.
I didn't have my mind blown by the ideas in it. Not that I begrudge people that do, I'm just not lying awake worrying about the dark forest hypothesis. Maybe it's because there's not much we can do about it anyways 🤷. I did really like the recasting of string theory's 11 dimensions as not some beautiful reality of the universe, but as the result of brutal galactic warfare.
I thought the FTL communication was kind of weird for a series that mostly tried to stick to (or at least give lip service to) hard sci-fi. If you haven't seen it before, this is a good explainer of the problems with FTL communication: https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.php. In the end, I think it more wants to be cosmic horror than hard sci-fi, which is fine.
One minor nit I have is that at the very end they talk a big deal about making messages last for billions of years, and they arrive at carving messages into stone. Good idea, but even then the message got partially lost. Why not add redundancy and carve it multiple times? I also kind of expecting something "clever", like writing the message into the genes of the mobile trees or something.
On my father
On my father
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Mass was said today for my father, the regretted JC (initials like that can't be made up)! Maximum respect for JC, "le grand chef",...
How Burke Survived LV-426 (Aliens: What If...)
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The Chilling Reality of the Forever War - Video by Quinn's Ideas
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Mass Effect keepers lore breakdown. Video by MetaNerdzLore
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Book Review by No Rerolls blog: Extremophile by Ian Green
Book Review: Extremophile by Ian Green
https://norerolls.co.uk/2024/07/27/book-review-extremophile-by-ian-green/
Extremophile is a sci-fi novel by Ian Green. It also falls into the subgenre of Cyberpunk. It is due to be published on the 1st of August 2024 by Head of Zeus as a hardback, as an ebook and as an a…
jeebus. reading Vampirre$ for the first time.
Like this is hitting me real hard. I can feel the sadness and the fight. They're good boys and and don't deserve what's coming down. They have some good religion. I'd like to be like these men. We fight for the ones we love.
All Tomorrows is getting a physical hardcopy printing
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Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement
Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement
https://locusmag.com/2024/07/hugo-awards-disqualification-statement/
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today: In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administrat…