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If you like sci-fi, you should read the Three Body Problem series. I won't post any spoilers but the "no fun" setting is a plot point.
by charred_patina 3y ago
If you like sci-fi, you should read the Three Body Problem series. I won't post any spoilers but the "no fun" setting is a plot point.
- FridgeSeal 3y agoYeah I’ve read the 3-body-problem books, didn’t enjoy them, but I’m well aware of the mechanic you’re speaking of.
- charred_patina 3y agoReally? What didn't you like about them? I ask because I found them pretty refreshing (even if there ere some annoying tropes)
- FridgeSeal 3y ago90-something-percent of the novel was spent following some frustrating character or just otherwise not going anywhere, just for all the interesting things to happen in basically the epilogue, and for every novel to have some frustrating deus-ex-machina be wheeled out at the last second, because of reasons, I guess? It all felt frustrating and pointless. It was like the fiction equivalent of that person who goes “nah space marines would win because uhm actually they have the xyz”.
- charred_patina 3y agoMaybe I just have low standards for literature, I didn't realize so many people disliked the books but on r/scifi and here on HN people really dislike the Three Body Problem series. I liked it but after the first 50 pages of book one I realized "Oh, this is anime". I think that having consumed a lot of anime in my teenage years I have more tolerance for story arcs that overstay their welcome, but make up for it with epic twists/payoff. I think that these expectations make it more palatable.