Hardcover
English language
Published Feb. 28, 2015 by Head of Zeus.
Secondo libro della trilogia dei Tre Corpi di Cixin Liu. Mentre il primo libro impiegava un po' di tempo per ingranare, qui si parte subito, e con stile.
Odio quando riesco a immaginare come finirà un libro. Qui non ne ho avuto idea fino alla terzultima pagina. Ho già ordinato il terzo capitolo della trilogia.
A must read if you enjoy science-fi on a galactic scale!
Augh, so uneven! The writing is so stilted (possibly the fault of the translation?), the characters are cardboard and interchangeable, there are SO MANY really awkward and clumsy shoehorns of exposition and gratuitous political/scientific details, and I don't even want to talk about the ways in which the tiny number of female characters were all SUPER problematic. The first 2/3 of the book was a real struggle.
But! Things really picked up in the last third of the book, and it raised some really interesting philosophical questions, and kept me guessing about a couple of things, sooooooo that's cool I guess. But the plot still had some giant holes and then there was the whole "Humans won because, unlike this other super-advanced civilization, we understand the concept of deception. Oh and also love." thing Curious to see how the trilogy wraps up whenever they get around to translating it into …
Augh, so uneven! The writing is so stilted (possibly the fault of the translation?), the characters are cardboard and interchangeable, there are SO MANY really awkward and clumsy shoehorns of exposition and gratuitous political/scientific details, and I don't even want to talk about the ways in which the tiny number of female characters were all SUPER problematic. The first 2/3 of the book was a real struggle.
But! Things really picked up in the last third of the book, and it raised some really interesting philosophical questions, and kept me guessing about a couple of things, sooooooo that's cool I guess. But the plot still had some giant holes and then there was the whole "Humans won because, unlike this other super-advanced civilization, we understand the concept of deception. Oh and also love." thing Curious to see how the trilogy wraps up whenever they get around to translating it into English.
