Death's End: Ausgezeichnet: Locus Award Best SF Novel, 2017 (The Three-Body Problem)
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Loved most of it except for the portrayal of genders/gender roles + I presonally thought the ending felt a bit flat in some parts while being rather daunting, which may be realistic in others. A concept which I wish would have been explored more in-depth is the tombs in the fourth dimension, I found them to be almost most intriguing, at least in this book, I'd be thrilled to read an entire book just on that concept alone. Concluding I'd say, yes, I would have preferred another end, but overall I thoroughly enjoyed this series in it's entirety which also plunged me into science fiction head first (I had merely planned to dip my toes in)
that was rather anticlimactic...
3.75⭐️ though it made me REAL excited to read the next book in this trilogy
My little bug brain hurts now. This was a slow burn but then it became a rapid spreading wildfire. Edit: gave it four stars at first, switched it to five. Yes it is a slow burn (with an rewarding outcome) but the fact that it's the fourth day straight waking up with my first thought about this book shoots it up to one of my best reads.
This book is a mixed bag for me. The whole premise is “contact as symbol” which seems to be the hypothesis of a fictional sociologist in the book. Without issue I can accept such a theory. Contact with extra-terrestrial life forms would change everything. No doubt, everything. Some people would love it, some people would fall into despair. Political monopolization of such contact would create even more fucked up shit in the world and be salvation for some, doom for others. With this book we get a spotlight on how this symbolic contact affects humanity. And I love that. Then why does this book fall short for me? It’s hard to put a finger on. Ken Liu did an amazing job translating into English and even though I have neither eyes nor brain for Chinese prose and story beats, I felt a glimpse of that. Which was amazing. Unfortunately, they didn’t work for me. Everything feels so radically “constructed”. This ranges from characters that are only characterized in so far as to perfectly symbolize one of the human factions, to expositional tellings that are very clumsily put into the story to perfectly explain something that happened 100 pages ago. It amounts to this feeling: this book is not a story being told, it’s an idea being presented. Ye Wenjie has every reason to act irrationally. I can’t even begin to imagine the horrors, abuse and oppression of such a life and up-bringing. However, instead of a human, she just seems to be a two-dimensional poster for “this is what happens when you live in a totalitarian dictatorship where truth and interpersonal relationships are twisted by propaganda and ultimately destroyed by violence”. Need another human fault in the picture? Enter Mike Evans who likes to plant trees in order to save birds. In one page of uncalled-for monologue we get to know the ideals of a son, whose father was a big oil player in climate crisis. Somewhere down the line he now lost hope for humanity. Ah, and due to his father, he now has the monetary means to move the plot forward, perfect! The book tries to build a connection to its characters, but it’s just so awkward. I would have loved to experience the “contact as symbol” with characters that I actually care for. I would’ve found such a telling much more impactful than just the rational dissection of humanity into different motives and ideals, that these characters ultimately just represent. Nonetheless, this book had some suspenseful moments and the eerie of the unknown came through strong here. I did enjoy it, though it has some very rough edges.
Well written scifi, whose scope far exceeded what I expected when I started reading the series. The narration of concepts and ideas in the different eras helped get lost in the infinite universe.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Loved most of it except for the portrayal of genders/gender roles + I presonally thought the ending felt a bit flat in some parts while being rather daunting, which may be realistic in others. A concept which I wish would have been explored more in-depth is the tombs in the fourth dimension, I found them to be almost most intriguing, at least in this book, I'd be thrilled to read an entire book just on that concept alone. Concluding I'd say, yes, I would have preferred another end, but overall I thoroughly enjoyed this series in it's entirety which also plunged me into science fiction head first (I had merely planned to dip my toes in)
that was rather anticlimactic...
3.75⭐️ though it made me REAL excited to read the next book in this trilogy
My little bug brain hurts now. This was a slow burn but then it became a rapid spreading wildfire. Edit: gave it four stars at first, switched it to five. Yes it is a slow burn (with an rewarding outcome) but the fact that it's the fourth day straight waking up with my first thought about this book shoots it up to one of my best reads.
This book is a mixed bag for me. The whole premise is “contact as symbol” which seems to be the hypothesis of a fictional sociologist in the book. Without issue I can accept such a theory. Contact with extra-terrestrial life forms would change everything. No doubt, everything. Some people would love it, some people would fall into despair. Political monopolization of such contact would create even more fucked up shit in the world and be salvation for some, doom for others. With this book we get a spotlight on how this symbolic contact affects humanity. And I love that. Then why does this book fall short for me? It’s hard to put a finger on. Ken Liu did an amazing job translating into English and even though I have neither eyes nor brain for Chinese prose and story beats, I felt a glimpse of that. Which was amazing. Unfortunately, they didn’t work for me. Everything feels so radically “constructed”. This ranges from characters that are only characterized in so far as to perfectly symbolize one of the human factions, to expositional tellings that are very clumsily put into the story to perfectly explain something that happened 100 pages ago. It amounts to this feeling: this book is not a story being told, it’s an idea being presented. Ye Wenjie has every reason to act irrationally. I can’t even begin to imagine the horrors, abuse and oppression of such a life and up-bringing. However, instead of a human, she just seems to be a two-dimensional poster for “this is what happens when you live in a totalitarian dictatorship where truth and interpersonal relationships are twisted by propaganda and ultimately destroyed by violence”. Need another human fault in the picture? Enter Mike Evans who likes to plant trees in order to save birds. In one page of uncalled-for monologue we get to know the ideals of a son, whose father was a big oil player in climate crisis. Somewhere down the line he now lost hope for humanity. Ah, and due to his father, he now has the monetary means to move the plot forward, perfect! The book tries to build a connection to its characters, but it’s just so awkward. I would have loved to experience the “contact as symbol” with characters that I actually care for. I would’ve found such a telling much more impactful than just the rational dissection of humanity into different motives and ideals, that these characters ultimately just represent. Nonetheless, this book had some suspenseful moments and the eerie of the unknown came through strong here. I did enjoy it, though it has some very rough edges.
Well written scifi, whose scope far exceeded what I expected when I started reading the series. The narration of concepts and ideas in the different eras helped get lost in the infinite universe.