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The writing in The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu) feels tacky
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Well as a translator myself, I can say translating and writing are VERY different skillsets! Entirely possible for someone to be good at writing in English but mediocre at translating to it (I am one such example 😔).
But yes, it seems likely the different styles and SF-hardness is more to blame than the translation itself.