For me the problem is that the good bits of the Three Body Problem were the Cultural Revolution, the dynamics of political pressure being put on the science base, the virtual world computer game, and the tough guy, conspiracy theory obsessed bejing taxi drive who is always smoking and wise-cracking.
I thought the last 1/3rd of the book was nonsense. The technologies premised to enable some of the things that happened earlier in the book also make the whole plan redundant, as those tools could be equally applied with much less effort and subtlety to just brute force an immediate victory. Somehow (by the way books work) I just don’t see the sequels going back to the good stuff that was used to set the scene, but instead charging on with the aliens.
The sequels obviously include a lot of stuff relating to aliens, but a big focus is on how human group react to the various dangerous scenarios they now face. Much of the books are concerned with how human culture evolves given the circumstances, with numerous multi-generational time-skips.
For me the problem is that the good bits of the Three Body Problem were the Cultural Revolution, the dynamics of political pressure being put on the science base, the virtual world computer game, and the tough guy, conspiracy theory obsessed bejing taxi drive who is always smoking and wise-cracking.
I thought the last 1/3rd of the book was nonsense. The technologies premised to enable some of the things that happened earlier in the book also make the whole plan redundant, as those tools could be equally applied with much less effort and subtlety to just brute force an immediate victory. Somehow (by the way books work) I just don’t see the sequels going back to the good stuff that was used to set the scene, but instead charging on with the aliens.
The sequels obviously include a lot of stuff relating to aliens, but a big focus is on how human group react to the various dangerous scenarios they now face. Much of the books are concerned with how human culture evolves given the circumstances, with numerous multi-generational time-skips.