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Paracyclops Aug 2, 2024

I found Cixin Liu's 'Death's End' gripping, but also disappointing. It's full of brilliant SF inventiveness, but it's politically/philosophically simplistic, and it has a bizarrely essentialist approach to gender.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6678240475

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Oliver Arditi's review of Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

4/5: Death's end is the concluding part of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's past series, which takes the already epic scope of The Three-body problem and The Dark forest and ramps it up as far as it will go. It's built on an array of wonderful SF ideas, which Liu enjoys imagining in plausible detail—such as what it would look like to see an object collapse from three to two dimensions. He progresses through a series of increasingly cosmic speculations around the technological manipulation of fundamental physics, and because his narrative is historical in scope, he sells the development of thos...

Daniel Appelquist Jun 16, 2024

I'm only a third of way through Death’s End (3rd book in the “Three Body Problem” series) and … it’s getting really frickin’ weird. But in a good way. #ThreeBodyProblem #RemembranceOfEarthsPast

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Jure Repinc

Mar 24, 2024

So I watched all of the eight episodes of the first season of the Netflix version of The Three Body Problem and it is quite good. Still like the Chinese adaptation by Tencent more, aesthetically and also as it sticks to the book a bit more closely. You can watch that one here
🎞 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UO8jbrIoM&list=PLMX26aiIvX5oCR4bBg2j0W4KKgjYtYBfv

But yeah Netflix version is still OK and I am looking forward to the next season.

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Jure Repinc

Mar 9, 2024

3 Body Problem¹ by Liu Cixin² (from the Remembrance of Earth's Past³, one of my favourite SciFi trilogies/series) is getting a TV series on March 21. Keeping fingers crossed it will be at least half as awesome as the books 🤞
https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=SdvzhCL7vIA

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Cixin
³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past

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Atanas Vasilev 🇧🇬Jan 30, 2024

Гледам "Three-body" - китайски сериал с 30 епизода по трилогията "Remembrance of Earth's past" на Liu Cixin. В края на март пък Netflix ще пуснат "3 body problem", продуциран от David Benioff - създателя на сериала "Game of thrones". Ще ми е интересно да съпоставя интерпретациите на двете продукции.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/?ref_=ext_shr

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13016388/?ref_=ext_shr

https://www.goodreads.com/series/189931-remembrance-of-earth-s-past

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Paracyclops Jan 2, 2024

This is an audacious, brilliant follow-up to ‘Three Body Problem’, marred for me by politically naïve worldbuilding and writing of women characters that is frankly misogynistic.
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Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣Jan 30, 2023

Awesome series!

(note: This is the Tencent TV adaptation (2023). Netflix's adaptation is set to premiere later in 2023.)

If you are familiar with physics, astronomy, mathematics, theories, you will recognise a lot of stuff used in this show. I'm not sure about the novel, so I'm only referring to the show.

* Some were asked before.
* Some are still being debated.
* Some still being proven.
* Some already possible mathematically.
* Some observed in real life.

The philosophical questions are also relevant, and many have been asked before, and many were recently asked.

I can't believe they were able to combine these different school of thoughts into one cohesive story. I haven't seen a story like this before. Usually, sci-fi authors would only focus, at most, 5 to keep it simpler for the audience, but in this show, it's out-of-this-world.

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The animation part was also great. They combined two types of art, and that was amazing. Also, some would probably critic how the movement of the animated characters are not fluid, but that's the whole point, it was intentional. It captured the 'game feel'.

Overall, from episodes 1 to 16, each episode felt like watching a 45-minute movie. They spent a lot. It wasn't half-baked. They were consistent in quality every episode.

Highly recommended!

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Alien BOB Jan 6, 2023

@enduser I would recommend all books by the following authors but limiting to some highlights:
#TheExpanse series by James S.A. Corey;
The #FinalArchitecture and the #ChildrenOfTime series by @aptshadow ;
The #Teixcalaan series by @ArkadyMartine ;
The #RemembranceOfEarthsPast series by Cixin Liu;
The #WeirdSpace series by Eric Brown & Una McCormack.