Wrapped up the first book after much struggle. Am I crazy for finding it extremely poorly written? Writing aside, the characters suck, the motivations suck, and the scenario building feels like it was tossed together by a 12 year old. I don't get the hype. Everything is paper thin. The fictional science aspect is the most compelling part but as a cohesive whole it fails to land.

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[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is very much not hard sci-fi. My biggest problem with it is how it pretends to be.

The author doesn't even understand the eponymous scientific term.

Edit: I don't know enough about every culture to dispute your claim that not all cultures write soap operas, but China sure as hell does. They produce more and have a larger audience than anywhere else in the world. They like the same shit everyone else does. Your bullshit claim is Orientalism at best and fetishization at worst.