City of illusions is to a degree a sequel to Planet of Exile (which is the only book of hers I think doesn’t hold up), which is kinda a sequel to Rocannon’s World so I definitely recommend reading all three.
I’m enjoying three body Problem but not to the degree I’d recommend it to people. Well made and all that, but it has issues that I feel come directly from cultural differences and from the writing.
Yeah, I wondered if my problems with the 3BP book were culturally-based from the translation, though it was pretty universally lauded as masterful. The motivations and actions of some of the characters just seemed so unlikely to me.
Yeah I also just see a lot of the imperial propaganda that I had to learn to recognize being an American in it, but for China. It’s very, “support for China doing bad things is morally superior to opposition to it”. Like, you have a victim of the cultural revolution and you’re telling me that she’s wholly in the wrong for begging aliens to help saying that we cannot save ourselves.
The show leans away from some of it but the entire story revolves around the full villain status of people with reasonable criticisms and their blind faith that makes them to a certain degree uninteresting.
City of illusions is to a degree a sequel to Planet of Exile (which is the only book of hers I think doesn’t hold up), which is kinda a sequel to Rocannon’s World so I definitely recommend reading all three.
I’m enjoying three body Problem but not to the degree I’d recommend it to people. Well made and all that, but it has issues that I feel come directly from cultural differences and from the writing.
I’ll put them on the reading list.
Yeah, I wondered if my problems with the 3BP book were culturally-based from the translation, though it was pretty universally lauded as masterful. The motivations and actions of some of the characters just seemed so unlikely to me.
Yeah I also just see a lot of the imperial propaganda that I had to learn to recognize being an American in it, but for China. It’s very, “support for China doing bad things is morally superior to opposition to it”. Like, you have a victim of the cultural revolution and you’re telling me that she’s wholly in the wrong for begging aliens to help saying that we cannot save ourselves.
The show leans away from some of it but the entire story revolves around the full villain status of people with reasonable criticisms and their blind faith that makes them to a certain degree uninteresting.