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by dcminter 378 days ago
The opening scene of the first novel during the cultural revolution I recall as being absolutely fantastic. The rest of that novel was a big rather dull Asimovian deus ex, and then the rest of the series was more of that.

Big disappointment, very much not what I think of as hard sci-fi which is what it often gets billed as, and I absolutely do not get the love for it here.

Don't get me wrong, there's some total dross out there that I adore, but this ain't it for me.

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As a hard sci-fi fan, I thoroughly enjoyed the books. They're a lot "harder" than most popular sci-fi books out there.
Then I can only assume that you and I have very different definitions of "hard sci-fi"