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.
sounds a bit One Punch Mannish ?