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waisbrot 's review for:
Death's End
by Cixin Liu
None of the characters act like humans I've seen and humanity as a whole is depicted as being entirely in lock-step unity as some kind of lawful-stupid entity.
The whole book reads like it was written in the middle of the Cold War, with the belief that MAD would destroy us all. Instead, the book has a bizarre lack of awareness of the last 100 years of history but at the same time only the people of today are important to humanity for the next 18 million years (they keep going into hibernation or relativistic travel).
Also there's an ~80 year period where the book says that men are "feminine" and that they are pretty-looking but the world population is even more irrational than in the rest of the book. Later, once humans figure out the even-more-grimdark true nature of the Universe, I guess the men grow their beards back.
The whole book reads like it was written in the middle of the Cold War, with the belief that MAD would destroy us all. Instead, the book has a bizarre lack of awareness of the last 100 years of history but at the same time only the people of today are important to humanity for the next 18 million years (they keep going into hibernation or relativistic travel).
Also there's an ~80 year period where the book says that men are "feminine" and that they are pretty-looking but the world population is even more irrational than in the rest of the book. Later, once humans figure out the even-more-grimdark true nature of the Universe, I guess the men grow their beards back.