I'm reading the translated versions, Norm38, did you read it in the original Chinese?
I understand that a Chinese film studio has made a big-budget production of vol. 1 and I really look forward to seeing how it turns out.
And The Three Body Problem ordered...
I have read all 3 and really loved them. It was great reading sci fi with a different cultural perspective. It’s a painful story though. (I read Deaths End in December 2016 and was already in a somewhat emotionally fragile / nihilistic state as a result of current events. This book did nothing to help that).
Quote from: joncz on 01/17/2018 09:47 pmAnd The Three Body Problem ordered...Cool, let us know what you thought!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
but the time line the third book stretches from the year 1453 to 18,906,416. No you didn't read that wrong. That's how creative the author is.
And it seems Amazon is planning to spend $1 billion (!?!) on an adaption of the three books.
Fair point, you didn't enjoy death's end? I haven't read the Time Machine. What I love about it is that it's based on science we are currently exploring, development of light speed travel via curving space to generate propulsion sounds actually do-able in the next millions of years, va just pushing a button like Star Trek or going through a worm holeDeath's end also doesn't just focus on earth, well it's gone by then anyways, but focuses on the universe as a whole and how all species interact. It describes inter-galactic wars with freshness. Usually it's just lasers and big space ships. This time it's destroying an entire galaxy by reducing its dimensions or covering it in a Black Domain where speed of light is zero. The warring parties don't actually need to meet face to face for a major "battle". It is more akin to warfare in our modern day. Technologies like drones, missiles, bombs dedicate our current wars, rather than face to face gun blasting.