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"Children of Time" is fantastic and "Three Body Problem" is good. I haven't read the rest of the Three Body series but it seems popular.
by n4r9 7y ago
"Children of Time" is fantastic and "Three Body Problem" is good. I haven't read the rest of the Three Body series but it seems popular.
- Retric 7y agoI don’t want to argue about it specificity, but “Three Body Problem” is not particularly hard science fiction. Bouncing a signal off the sun as a signal booster. Eleven-dimensional supercomputers called sophons which, when viewed in three dimensions, only occupy the volume of a proton. That’s a little out there. IMO, people calling that Hard Science fiction shows how far from mainstream the idea is.
- n4r9 7y agoI agree, although you did say "reasonably" hard and it is popularly categorised as hard sci fi. The stuff about using entangled gigantic photons to manipulate signals to Earth was definitely absurd, but the discussion of the actual three body problem was more reasonable. I dunno. I've never been a huge buff for the harder side of sci fi and Clarke novels seem to leave me cold, so maybe not the best judge of this.
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