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Ok, seen in that light it makes a bit more sense. The chapters where people are treated basically like grass, letting them dry out when conditions are unfavora

Ok, seen in that light it makes a bit more sense. The chapters where people are treated basically like grass, letting them dry out when conditions are unfavorable, and just hydrating them back to life when things get better - that's some seriously puke-inducing allegory. That's a world I would absolutely refuse to live in. Something is seriously wrong with a universe that produces that kind of outcome.

jandrese 9y ago
The Trisolarian world was definitely shitty, and it's pretty improbable that life would manage to thrive there, but I thought it was still interesting. My problem with those novels shows up anywhere someone uses "pure logic" to solve some problem, but the logic is totally insane and nobody ever calls them on it. In fact the entire universe follows the same insane logic for some reason, and it dooms the whole place. It does get kind of funny near the end when the author decides that the big crunch is going to happen after all. But then all of the alien races have stolen too much of the mass of the universe to hide in their own little pocket universes so it won't happen. The protagonists at that point return their mass to the universe, but given the logic of the rest of the series there is no chance that the alien races will do that, the universe remains doomed.
ivix 9y ago
Well, you know, they're aliens. The books never describe what they actually look like but you can well imagine that they are some kind of insect like creatures which would be horrifying to us. For many life forms even on Earth, going into stasis during difficult times is a completely normal occurence.
- politician 9y ago
  The books actually do describe the aliens. They look like the aliens from "Mars Attacks" [1], except their brains are bioluminescent and the patterns displayed involuntarily reveal their thoughts. [1] http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-sby4jv/product_images/uploaded_images/marsattacks.jpg?t=1429541506 http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-sby4jv/product_images/uploaded...

jandrese 9y ago

The Trisolarian world was definitely shitty, and it's pretty improbable that life would manage to thrive there, but I thought it was still interesting. My problem with those novels shows up anywhere someone uses "pure logic" to solve some problem, but the logic is totally insane and nobody ever calls them on it. In fact the entire universe follows the same insane logic for some reason, and it dooms the whole place. It does get kind of funny near the end when the author decides that the big crunch is going to happen after all. But then all of the alien races have stolen too much of the mass of the universe to hide in their own little pocket universes so it won't happen. The protagonists at that point return their mass to the universe, but given the logic of the rest of the series there is no chance that the alien races will do that, the universe remains doomed.

ivix 9y ago

Well, you know, they're aliens. The books never describe what they actually look like but you can well imagine that they are some kind of insect like creatures which would be horrifying to us. For many life forms even on Earth, going into stasis during difficult times is a completely normal occurence.

politician 9y ago
The books actually do describe the aliens. They look like the aliens from "Mars Attacks" [1], except their brains are bioluminescent and the patterns displayed involuntarily reveal their thoughts. [1] http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-sby4jv/product_images/uploaded_images/marsattacks.jpg?t=1429541506 http://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-sby4jv/product_images/uploaded...