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by quartesixte
818 days ago
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A bit of a meta comment, but the character-based criticisms I find fascinating because: 1) Golden Age SciFi (Asimov, Clarke, etc) had the same “problems”
2) It’s leveled as real criticism instead of a matter of taste? I think there should be room for fiction-as-idea-vehicles as much as there is room for characters-as-core. 3BP and its sequels sit very squarely in both the latter camp as well as follows a lot of cues from Chinese fantasy epics (classic and modern). It has been a while since we have had some good High Science Fiction and the ideas were thought provoking enough. I have a personal bone to pick with the Cult-of-the-Character but that’s something for another day… |
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