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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
As always, Cixin Liu is amazing. Great collection of short stories.
adventurous
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
A generously fat collection of Cixin Liu's novellas. Combines astonishing and amazing physics and cosmology ideas with seriously cardboard characterisations and dialogue. Like Golden Age SF written with access to 21st century theories. Frustrating and mind-boggling in equal measures.
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Ich dachte Anfangs, es wäre ein ganzer Roman und habe mich auf eine in den Bann ziehende Geschichte gefreut. Nach der ersten Geschichte war ich ein wenig enttäuscht, jedoch habe ich mich in den folgenden 10 Kurzgeschichten sehr tief verloren, im positiven Sinn.
Es sind manchmal ungewöhnliche Erzählungen, dennoch regen sie einen zum Nachdenken an und das ist wie, ich finde, die Hauptsache.
Klare Empfehlung.
Es sind manchmal ungewöhnliche Erzählungen, dennoch regen sie einen zum Nachdenken an und das ist wie, ich finde, die Hauptsache.
Klare Empfehlung.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A solid selection of stories - can see him playing around with some of concepts he employs in the Three Body Problem series. I like that at least two of the stories were threaded together. I usually avoid short story collections due to the risk of getting one or more clunkers thrown in there, but these are all pretty great.
Some tortured storytelling devices in many of the stories in the middle, including an overreliance on odd narrative structures. The Wandering Earth story was great, as were the last two (With Her Eyes and Cannonball), which turned traditional science fiction themes of space exploration on their head.
A lot of techno-pessimism about the state of what’s to come.
Book caught my eye at Powell’s in Portland -> CA then DC.
A lot of techno-pessimism about the state of what’s to come.
Book caught my eye at Powell’s in Portland -> CA then DC.
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, War
I loved this collection of Sci Fi stories. So many different ideas and futures and possibilities that become idea worms and eat their way into your brain and keep you thinking over the ideas and possibilities for worlds and universes and futures.