> I really don’t get how this series took off. My guess: The novelty of Science Fiction from a Chinese Author, which isn't commonly translated to English, and

> I really don’t get how this series took off. My guess: The novelty of Science Fiction from a Chinese Author, which isn't commonly translated to English, and a legitimately interesting SciFi concept. If you read the plot summary on Wikipedia, it actually sounds amazing, it's just that the books themselves don't deliver on the premise nearly as well.