My brother recently finished the trilogy and really enjoyed it. Then a coworker I haven’t seen in a year in a half (due to hybrid schedule I only see some co-workers at the Christmas Party) told me he had just read it and recommended it. Its apparently about preparing for an alien invasion force that will arrive in 200 years.
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I mentioned it sometime back in a similar discussion here. My problem with it was that it fundamentally is a hard sci-fi attempt at a cultivation novel. That is a genre of chinese fiction that I loathe, so when I noticed it was happening I noped out.
To explain slightly (but hopefully not give anyone the impression I'm endorsing it), cultivation dramas are those focused on a main character developing superhuman abilities through alchemy, meditation, magic, potions, and the like. It is overdone to the extreme both in number of works, and the navel-gazing of those works. The degree and speed at which the main character becomes a god is uninteresting and intensely masturbatory (and thus cringey to observe.) It is also generally a feature that there are constant philosophical debates that boil down to "Chinese is best" by misrepresentation of both their own arguments and all others.
Three Body is this by way of its main character, his ludicrous infallibility, constant power creep, and the many dialog examples where he performs meta analysis of the story with his opponents in actual conversation. The author also can't help but only allow Chinese characters to be good in the story that is fundamentally about the entire world unifying around an extraterrestrial threat. It gets accused of being 'based' because a couple of the villains are women, but I suggest not to put too much credit on that.
The third book is ultra based to the point of being misogynistic lol. For those who don't know, each book has a different main character, and the last book in the trilogy has a woman who repeatedly sabotages the survival of the human race until literally everyone except for two people is wiped out with a Looney Tunes dimensional raygun. Then the last two people (one of which is the woman) are implied to be doomed because of yet ANOTHER sentimental decision she made.
I know you can never go too hard on women here, but that's just too ridiculous for me.
Bonus, the *third book also has an alien Japanese waifu cyborg that puts on camo yoga pants and starts slaughtering people with a katana. This is supposed to be intimidating.
Man what on Earth did I just read lmao!
OK fair enough, what tags will give me spoiler redactions?
Supernatural does that as well. At first they're fairly human, but after a while they kill death and Gods.
Gotcha. I have a few books to get through before I start reading it. I appreciate the insight. Ive never read any Chinese Sci-Fi before
sounds a bit One Punch Mannish ?
Cultivation drama's beat the pants of western 'i am, therefore uber, forever'.
It is written as drama but i appreciate that the main premise is not 'i'm from krypton and got magic powers, meanwhile check out my humongous breasts and bullet proof butt' or whatever. Underdog working to better himself to take glorious revenge should resonate very strongly with anyone with half a brain. Sadly no magic 10,000 year old ginger bread in the real world.
Batman had that 'work hard to become great' for a hot minute, before he got familia-ed and beaten up by a psychotic blond bimbo.