>>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