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(Cross-post) The writing in The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu) feels tacky

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/270743 !fiction@literature.cafe

I have been reading the English translations and the characters and especially their dialogues feel very fake. I do appreciate the hard science aspect of the books but the long monologues, kids speaking like middle-aged philosophers, and army personnel being one-dimensional macho men breaks the immersion for me. It has the depth of a 1980s low-budget thriller.

I don’t read a lot of hard science fiction or translations of Chinese books. I don’t know if this is genre-related.

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