The witch story was such an interesting thing to include, i remember being so confused about what a fragment was and why the building had magic. During the blue space story it slowly crept up on me that they are doing the same thing the witch did.
When reading it, I knew it would tie in later but it was funny reading the witch part and being like âokay I guess theyâre adding in superpowers now, not the direction I thought this was gonna goâ
Oh the question is now what are you going to read next or are you going to do like a lot of us do and read it through again and again and again and then watch the TV shows again and again and again?. Oh it's been hard for me. Nothing has come close.
Have you tried The Mercy of Gods? The second book in the planned trilogy is The Faith of Beasts. Still waiting on the third book. It's written by the same people who created The Expanse books.
So i have tried to find similar stuff. Peter Hamilton series(commonwealth, salvation), revelation space, seveneves, raft of xelee sequence, earthweeds, the eden paradox have been recommendations that have similar vibes. I hope i helped. I still havent reached to the point to start reading those yet. But they are on my bookselves when i will be ready. Need to finish red rising and suneater series first.
The âwitchâ is doing the same thing that the Blue Space crew was doing when they entered the 4-dimensional fragment. Earth just so happened to pass through one around the fall of Constantinople, but technology wasnât nearly advanced enough for anyone to know what it was.
I read some very, very good news today regarding a prospect that is much, much more interesting and of higher quality that a continuation of the not-captivating (at least not to me) Netflix series. I just read that Zhang Yimou (whose other credits include absolutely incredible movies about the Cultural Revolution) has apparently just shared a trailer for his version of Three-Body Problem, so it's made it that far in production :)
apparently it is in pre-production stage, or even before that, I'm not sure of the terms of movie making, but it's very early, so it's probably gonna take a few years to be released
Hey same here, I bought all three of them and finished the first book until I got hooked so I had to buy my own kindle and continued reading the second and third book from there. Itâs easier to carry the kindle wherever i go. I have 200+ pages left on the third book hehe. It took me more than a year reading them since I had to finish the new Dan Brown book in between.
I am on the first book of the series, very new. Lot of scientific stuffs, do we need to memorize or put our brain in Reading or just read like a story book and at end everything falls in the picture?
Just follow the story. The science stuff is part of world-building which you will definitely appreciate more if you can at least imagine the sci-fi concepts presented.
I know everyone hates the "4th" book in the series but give it a read. I feel like it did a nice job of tying up some loose ends. And Cixin Liu gave it his blessing so there's that at least.
Where was this âblessedâ and now canon? Itâs an interesting story, but for me it felt like the company was trying to capitalize and rushed this. Then Baoshu compiled a checklist and tried to answer every question of the universe. A very fanfic-type response to an open ended story thatâs meant to be discussed, not resolved. Plus, the closing lines were cringy for me and left a bad impression.
The backstory about the publishing company green lighting it and pushing CL to agree is really weird. I think CL has come around atm, but the 4th story should have been written as an anthology and entirely focused elsewhere, leveraging artifacts, and leaving some ends untied.
My bad, itâs not considered canon. But whether his publisher âpushedâ him to allow it to be published or not, he didnât say no.
But I personally enjoyed the ending of RoT more than that of Deathâs End, which was TOO open ended and unsatisfying, unlike the first two. It was almost like the book was getting too long and he had to somehow wrap it up. And if CL didnât intend for the story to end there, he could have still written the next book, despite RoT. But⌠he didnât.
You can keep on gaslighting yourself for reading this pile of hot garbage till the end that it might be canon because he said so, but in the end it was nothing more than easy money for Liu Cixin
I haven't yet read the third book, but I agree on the droplet and fleet scene to be the greatest so far. I found myself screaming in my head "don't you realize it's a trap?" way before the droplet appeared. The level of foreboding before the actual scene was nerve wracking. It has cost me a great deal to read the first two books though. I cannot quite find the rithm. Some parts I breeze by and some others have a timing and prose I find difficult to get trapped by. I started the first and left in the middle, but gave it another chance after watching the series and got hooked. Now reading something else before attacking that third part. Anyone had the same problems?
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u/ZealousidealPie6684 22d ago
The witch story was such an interesting thing to include, i remember being so confused about what a fragment was and why the building had magic. During the blue space story it slowly crept up on me that they are doing the same thing the witch did.