hongzu117
Magistrate
Well，if you think so，it's really cool.Powerful? You make me sound like some forest Witch/sorceress or something! Wait, that sounds kinda cool! I'll accept the compliment!
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hi Hongzu.
Chinese SF is starting to get published in English, I've read a few works and collections of short stories. It's interesting to get a different perspective, SF with Chinese characteristics
Liu Cixin won the Hugo in 2015, a major breakthrough for Chinese SF and hopefully a sign of things to come. I read it last year but I found parts of it heavy going to be honest. I might see how the other books in the series are. It tackles some interesting concepts, the three body problem of the title, the Dark Forest (it's dangerous out there people!), and the history of science and philosophy, eastern and western.
There's also the Chung Kuo books by David Wingrove, a vision of a future earth radically reshaped by a resurgent China, written from a western perspective, a western author.
I've just reread The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. I was shocked to realise that it's almost 30 years old
It was a major work introducing steampunk to a wider audience, but it hasn't grabbed me this time around and I wonder if it lacks the freshness that it had on first reading.
Should I recommend something? How about the works of Kage Baker. Sadly she died a few years ago but she wrote both SF and fantasy and I love her work in both genres. A favourite? Possibly Into The West (known in Britain as Mendoza in Holywood), it's part of a series but it can be read on its own. What's it about? Go and find out for yourself
. I will say that I read a review once which complained that there was too much incidental material in the book that got in the way of the main narrative - but for me it was that material that made the book enjoyable. Over to you.
Speaking of dead authors, I see Michael Crichton has published 3 books now since his death. Is there no stopping the man?
Chinese SF is starting to get published in English, I've read a few works and collections of short stories. It's interesting to get a different perspective, SF with Chinese characteristics
Liu Cixin won the Hugo in 2015, a major breakthrough for Chinese SF and hopefully a sign of things to come. I read it last year but I found parts of it heavy going to be honest. I might see how the other books in the series are. It tackles some interesting concepts, the three body problem of the title, the Dark Forest (it's dangerous out there people!), and the history of science and philosophy, eastern and western.
There's also the Chung Kuo books by David Wingrove, a vision of a future earth radically reshaped by a resurgent China, written from a western perspective, a western author.
I've just reread The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. I was shocked to realise that it's almost 30 years old
It was a major work introducing steampunk to a wider audience, but it hasn't grabbed me this time around and I wonder if it lacks the freshness that it had on first reading.
Should I recommend something? How about the works of Kage Baker. Sadly she died a few years ago but she wrote both SF and fantasy and I love her work in both genres. A favourite? Possibly Into The West (known in Britain as Mendoza in Holywood), it's part of a series but it can be read on its own. What's it about? Go and find out for yourself
. I will say that I read a review once which complained that there was too much incidental material in the book that got in the way of the main narrative - but for me it was that material that made the book enjoyable. Over to you.Speaking of dead authors, I see Michael Crichton has published 3 books now since his death. Is there no stopping the man?
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Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Dover publications put out a book of Chinese fairy tales. The ones I read were very interesting (like the fruit trees in the scholar's yard turning into women for protection against the East Wind).
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
The three-body problem.
Here is a quote from R. D. Mattuck's book on Feynman diagrams.
In eighteenth-century Newtonian mechanics, the three-body problem was insoluble. With the birth of general relativity about 1910 and quantum electrodynamics in 1930, the two- and one-body problems became insoluble. And within modern quantum field theory, the problem of zero bodies (vacuum) is insoluble. So if we are out after exact solutions, no bodies at all is already too many!
hongzu117
Magistrate
Thank you. I haven't heard of them before，now I know.hi Hongzu.
Chinese SF is starting to get published in English, I've read a few works and collections of short stories. It's interesting to get a different perspective, SF with Chinese characteristics
Liu Cixin won the Hugo in 2015, a major breakthrough for Chinese SF and hopefully a sign of things to come. I read it last year but I found parts of it heavy going to be honest. I might see how the other books in the series are. It tackles some interesting concepts, the three body problem of the title, the Dark Forest (it's dangerous out there people!), and the history of science and philosophy, eastern and western.
There's also the Chung Kuo books by David Wingrove, a vision of a future earth radically reshaped by a resurgent China, written from a western perspective, a western author.
I've just reread The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. I was shocked to realise that it's almost 30 years old
It was a major work introducing steampunk to a wider audience, but it hasn't grabbed me this time around and I wonder if it lacks the freshness that it had on first reading.
Should I recommend something? How about the works of Kage Baker. Sadly she died a few years ago but she wrote both SF and fantasy and I love her work in both genres. A favourite? Possibly Into The West (known in Britain as Mendoza in Holywood), it's part of a series but it can be read on its own. What's it about? Go and find out for yourself
Speaking of dead authors, I see Michael Crichton has published 3 books now since his death. Is there no stopping the man?
hongzu117
Magistrate
Emmm……I want to know the name of this book，amazing story……
hongzu117
Magistrate
In fact，the three body problem is only a start in the book，the real content is far beyond this.
By the way，when the trilogy was published together in China，its general title was《地球往事》（《Once upon a time on the earth》、《The earth's past》）.
ShadowWolf
Tribune
Your welcome.
malins
Stumbling Seeker
I did read the first book of that, and I'd recommend it too, a lot of good ideas how to work out the interaction with an alien civilization quite differently (progressing through a virtual reality 'online game' to become part of a chosen few) ... and their advanced techology also makes our reality quite manipulable...
Another good recommendation, I picked it up on windars suggestion and he isn't exaggerating.
When it comes to SF, I've recently been reading some old stuff, 1940s/early 1950s; 'More than human' by Theodore Sturgeon was the last...
windar
Teller of Tales
Is that when you have two girlfriends at the same time?
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Piper Marie
Guest
When I was a little girl I was all over the map it seems. The outsiders, treasure island, the red badge of courage, the Quay, oh, and Goosebumps, who can forget that little gem of a series. I still enjoy Garfield comics if it counts since they are in "book" form as well.
I read a manga series called Claymore that I am sure @ERIN the Brave Would love. the entire main cast are sword wielding women.
I read a manga series called Claymore that I am sure @ERIN the Brave Would love. the entire main cast are sword wielding women.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
The Chinese Fairy Book, edited by Richard Wilhelm. I found it on Amazon. Dover also has their own site, http://www.doverpublications.com.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Is that when you have two girlfriends at the same time?
And zero bodies is when your celibate and still have a problem? "Politics" is hell even if you try to avoid it.
hongzu117
Magistrate
The theme of the trilogy is rising，from the human crisis to the truth of the cruelty of the universe，this series has been creating surprises.
hongzu117
Magistrate
So you are imaginative now
hongzu117
Magistrate
Thank you！In fact，what surprises me most is，I've never heard of this story before.
hongzu117
Magistrate
The three-body‘position problem.Is that when you have two girlfriends at the same time?
greja
Onlooker
I once found this one.
It is in German. A crime story which plays in SM-clubs. You can guess how the victim died...
There are a few more books shown on http://www.cruxforums.com/xf/threads/books.4462/
windar
Teller of Tales
Wow! Interesting! It seems from amazon.de that Andras is the author and Schatten (Shadow) is the title. I don't see any indicattion that an English translation is available. There could be a project for one of our members fluent in both languages
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Piper Marie
Guest
Wow! Interesting! It seems from amazon.de that Andras is the author and Schatten (Shadow) is the title. I don't see any indicattion that an English translation is available. There could be a project for one of our members fluent in both languages
I hope so! I know we should not judge a book by it's cover, but that is one hell of a cover!