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A review by lprongs
Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang
Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.
Realized I was forcing myself to keep picking this book up. I was totally hooked by the premise, but the writing style and characters annoy me. It feels a lot like "men writing women" despite being written by a woman. I also thought it was gonna be more like The Expanse with East vs West philosophies for first contact, but so far it's just "no ancient civilization could have been possible without aliens!" ancientaliens.gif. Odd mix of harder scifi with alien conspiracies.
May pick back up later and see if it improves, but probably not. Too many other books, too little time.
Did learn a lot about Chinese history though, and I liked Ken Liu's choice to leave a lot of transliterated Chinese concepts instead of directly translating them, as well as the footnotes.
May pick back up later and see if it improves, but probably not. Too many other books, too little time.
Did learn a lot about Chinese history though, and I liked Ken Liu's choice to leave a lot of transliterated Chinese concepts instead of directly translating them, as well as the footnotes.