>>25212456
for me its the 1st half of the 1st book, where hardly anything happens but everything feels foreboding and meaningful (not saying that the rest isnt great as well)

>>>/sffg/

you're never going to sell me on "aliens are coming to earth" but you will sell me on "filter game recruiting methods"

>>25212456
It was good. I fucking love Dark Forest.

>>25212456
I've only read the first three books but they were pretty good. Has anyone read Ball Lightning or The Redemption of Time? Are they worth it?

>>25212456
I haven’t read any of it but watched the tv show and it was fair to middling. The concept is good

>>25213104
I couldn't watch it because they made the main character black and the women were insufferable. Plus the acting of Samwell Tarley was retarded.

>>25212456
I feel like an anomaly. I enjoyed the first book so much more than the rest. But I went into reading it knowing nothing about the premise or characters or that it was even sci-fi so it came off a little horror-like which was cool.

>>25213162
I’m not racist so that didn’t bother me and Ser Piggy gets killed early on

>>25213192
Making the main character black was racist. He was supposed to be Chinese.
I can believe in aliens but not black scientists. I'm a realist, not a racist in this case.
The fact that they made the scientist girls hot bar whores annoyed me too. Super intelligent scientist women probably don't hang out in bars gossiping like college coeds gone wild. They're usually kind of weird and less interested in there appearance.

>>25213271
Evolution isn’t real and IQ is pseudoscientific trash on the same level as astrology

>>25213314
Who said anything about IQ or evolution?

>>25213329
I did. I said they’re trash ideas designed to fool stupid people

I couldn't subject myself to the prose for more than 100 pages.

>>25213337
Ok

>>25213383
Too bad. They're the only good sci fi books written in decade that I know of. The prose isn't great but the story and future speculation was good.

If anybody can name a better sci fi book or series written after 2000 I'd like to hear it.

>>25212456
1: exceptional misogeny, literally everything wrong with human response was because of "women"
2: total reliance on authoritarianism for survival options
3: dark forest is flawed
4: the energy to actually fold space is greater than combined extant energy of the universe....so...

>>25213426
oh also 4/10, it seems cool at first but when you think about it everything falls apart

>>25213426
1. So...
2. So....
3. So.....
4. You say that as if it were a fact lol

>>25213474
just wait a while you will realize it's not a very good series

>>25213493
I already read them. I liked them. They weren't amazing but I had a good time.

>>25213417
I haven't read 3 body problem so I don't know how it stacks up, but I loved Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga a lot.

they're pretty good. the first book is the best. liu has neat ideas but he isn't a great writer.
i read the whole 1800 pages in a 7 days or so so it couldn't have been that bad

>>25213426
1. that's realism
2. that's realism
3. no it's not you're sub 90 iq if you really believe this
4. wrong

>>25213314
>Evolution isn’t real
Not in your family, at least.

>>25213337
You seem particularly threatened by those ideas. I wonder why.

>>25213811
I put it on the list. I'll check it out.

>>25214051
Rather it seems that you are the one threatened by the rejection of those ideas

>>25212456
I just fucking LOVE the full commitment to Da Shi living in an schlocky action movie while an interstellar civillizational war wages on around him.

He doesn't take the story over either. It's very explicit what he's goood at. Being street-smart and saving the day at the very last second in the capacity that a single human is capable of.

The boat scene was KINO.
Every specialist, the pinnacle of our species, the results of decades of hard work handling the most important business of the human world, and they all wonder, "How are we going to kill every single one of the collaborators at once?"
And then Da Shi immediately coming up with the adapting to their sleep cycle, even the CIA big-wigs being kinda baffled at the sheer brutality and cunning of his proposal.
I like the implication that at one point he's at least had to consider a similar scenario.

I was so hyped when he came back for part 2

>>25212456
I only read the first book. I thought it was cool until it turned into a schlocky hollywood flick.

>>25212456
booooooooooooooooooooooooooring.
aliens didn't win so it is trash.

>>25215019
agree

>>25212456
Despite memeing on it, I actually quite enjoyed the Liu Cixin book where they push Earth out of the solar system on rockets. It had themes of hope, survival, love. I found it uplifting and nice even if the basic plot line is literally the same as the Annihilatrix from frisky dingo.

>>25215024
>they push Earth out of the solar system on rockets. It had themes of hope, survival, love.
sound like bullshit.

>>25215028
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth_(novella)

The entire novella is online if you need me to link it in another post. It’s actually not a bad story though I’m far more of a classics person and not usually into sci fi.

>>25215031
I watched the movie it is awful. bet the book is awful too.

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>>25212456
It’s not good writing but the ideas are interesting. Cardboard characters and some incredibly stupid decisions, the aliens as lifeforms are fascinating as is the unstable world that produces them, the aliens as characters are dull and their philosophy and interactions with humans nonsensical.
I might piss off people saying it but that fits squarely into 60s-70s sci fi. Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov. Can’t understand another human to save their life, the day is saved by SCIENTIST MAN. Oh and there’s some stupid foid there to stand around and have breasts and possibly thirst for SCIENTIST MAN’s cock.
The trouble is they could bang out a tight 250-300 page book with ideas front and center. The chinaman needs 1500 pages to show us the ideas of one classic sci fi book.
You could read:
2001, Ringworld, Starship Troopers, Solaris, Roadside Picnic, Rendezvous With Rama, The Crystal World instead.

In that light this series is all filler.

>>25215055
> ideas are interesting.
not even original.

>>25215060
>le dark forest theory was invented by white dudes in the 1800s!
name one other book with wallfacers
the trilogy has many original ideas and they're not what you think

Zero votes

https://strawpoll.com/XOgOVq3Dan3

>>25215094
LMAOO name a single original idea

>>25215114
Damn we got a lot of retards in here. Can't believe anybody voted for Wheel of Time.

>>25212456
Speaking of original ideas, I wish more scifi novels used folklore or mythos-adjacent elements in their writing just like the three fairytales or something in the third book.

Does anyone know of any other series that does stuff like that..?