It seems interesting and I hear it's good modern hard sci-fi. What's your opnion, worth the read?
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i laughed when i saw the still of the chungus from GOT in the trailer
i had a really hard time with the book because i'm r-slur and can't keep all the chingnames straight.
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All 3 books are great. While all 3 continue a main storyline, they're all thematically different enough to be distinct and stay compelling.
Netflix adaptation will be dogshit as is tradition.
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I liked altered carbon (minus the flashback episodes/scenes) only watched season 1
was the book that much better?
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I thought the book was okay, didn't watch the Netflix thing though.
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I liked the books. Some good original ideas. Reads kind of weird what with the translation but it's not a deal breaker.
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The prose is strange, but apparently the author is just a Chinese megaboomer who writes like that in his native tongue
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it sucks (never read it)
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I had someone go off about it at work. Apparently it's scifi for the normies with all the problematic scifi taken out of it.
Edit: all you neurodivergents have had your brains rotted by Burger culture war bullshit. Problematic means 'creates problems'- like problems understanding or problems appealing to a mainstream audience.
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Isn't it written by a mainland china engineer? i'm shocked that ur saying its not problematic
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Check out definition A... literally the most common definition:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/problematic
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I hate culture-war-cels so much it's unreal
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The word 'problematic' existed before 2012. I could have said 'difficult to understand'.
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Fair. There is some very interesting high-concept scifi, but it's true that it isn't very well-rooted in real science and it stays away from technobabble
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Never read it- had a foid in an English test I was giving talk about it.
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so it's for the darkies
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Good book but just like when reading russian novels you need to keep a character sheet on hand
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What is it with russian and chinese literature and there being 4000 names you can't remember?
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For Russian novels it's because they were originally published piecemeal in periodicals rather than as cohesive units. Also they were paid by the word so lots of padding.
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Why is it that for some reason a lot of 'great' literature turns out to be newspaper 'slop made to bang out a quick buck?
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Character List:
U Nee Sheit
Tu Ree Die
Thi Sa Buk
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@KinoBushido is on Book 2
Book 1 could be adapted. The main actor is B.D. Wong, one of @KinoBushido's favorite tv actors ever.
Idk how they're gonna do book 2 lol
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Honestly I read it and it seemed to talk about a lot of physics concepts and then explained them really well, I kept expecting for there to be something involving some neurodivergent obscure field of science, but no, it just takes things we kind of understand, extrapolates them, and then makes all the main characters scientists who use technology to 'save' the day. (There are like 4 or so sequels.)
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dude ayy lmaos lmao
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found the incel
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I read the first book, I thought it was good but not great.
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I liked the first book but gave up half way into the second. Should go back and try reading it again.
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Netflix sucks, there's supposedly already a pretty good Chinese(I think?) adaptation out. Haven't read or watched either, but @Gohan_Rojo would go with that if you want to.
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i closed it after 5 mins because it was so
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Do you like the book series? They sound pretty boring too @Gohan_Rojo so @Gohan_Rojo haven't watched either, just wondering if it's boring or a bad adaptation too you
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The book is kind of boring since most of it is just setup to explain what the frick is actually going on. It's written like a mystery novel though, so by the end it all gets explained so the climax can make sense. Cliffhanger ending though.
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didnt read it lmao i'm too
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As long as you're aware that you can predict orbits in space with math and have an idea that quantum physics means "small particles like protons interacting in funny ways across space and time" you can read it and understand it. The book itself basically explains itself, it's like it writes its own plot synopsis halfway through that gives you the full breakdown.
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Sci-fi in general is kinda
and 
, I try to stay away from it too
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