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3 body problem is solid so far, into second episode
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Benedict Wong is inspired casting for Shi
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Great human abacus 🫡
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Finished. Solid through the end though a bit expository towards the end. But good for efficiently skipping a lot of pipe laying. I only read the first book and summaries of the other two. I’m glad they’re compressing and entangling plot lines across all 3 books.
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I realized why this story feels so fresh to those raised on Anglo SF. It imagines a universe that’s arranged without regard for human convenience or inconvenience. The big elements just have their own logic to which the human stories are subordinate.
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Or even alien convenience. Warp drive, hyperspace, time travel are just convenient devices for scaling human stories. A 3BP or a sophon or a dark-forest logic are kinda indifferent to life. They weird the stories rather than scale them. Fictional physics that just scales ordinary stories or superpowers heroes is stale.
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Speaking of weirding premises I also liked the first episode of the new Doctor Who with the knot-theoretic aliens. Wasn’t entirely cashed out but great idea. More world-weirding premises plz. Anglo SF typically just turns humans into gods. Weirding SF twists humans into pretzels.
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