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A review by timinbc
The Redemption of Time by Baoshu
2.0
Don't even think of reading this unless you read and enjoyed the Three-Body Problem series.
Well, it's no more and no less than it says it is, so let's not be harsh. It's an achievement to write even a reasonably credible work in someone else's universe, and to extend the concepts is a worthwhile exercise. Is it done well? Not really. Would that perhaps be expecting too much? I think so.
I'll give credit for the effort involved in doing a huge "What IF THIS is how it went?" that fills in gaps in the original and then extends to a reasonably plausible rollout of "What Happened Next?" and tries to fit it into an overall framework from an even greater height than the original's.
There's–perhaps unavoidably–too much "you see, Bobby," and the female characters are dreadful. And eventually we get bogged down in Master-Lurkers-Seekers-agents-clones-copies and in philosophical issues that are relevant but not terribly interesting to this reader.
Worth the effort of writing it, just worth reading for me, but in the end not a major contribution to the world of SF. And it never claimed to be.
Well, it's no more and no less than it says it is, so let's not be harsh. It's an achievement to write even a reasonably credible work in someone else's universe, and to extend the concepts is a worthwhile exercise. Is it done well? Not really. Would that perhaps be expecting too much? I think so.
I'll give credit for the effort involved in doing a huge "What IF THIS is how it went?" that fills in gaps in the original and then extends to a reasonably plausible rollout of "What Happened Next?" and tries to fit it into an overall framework from an even greater height than the original's.
There's–perhaps unavoidably–too much "you see, Bobby," and the female characters are dreadful. And eventually we get bogged down in Master-Lurkers-Seekers-agents-clones-copies and in philosophical issues that are relevant but not terribly interesting to this reader.
Worth the effort of writing it, just worth reading for me, but in the end not a major contribution to the world of SF. And it never claimed to be.