Yep. I've really liked the first two books after finishing them (will read the third after a detour through Blindsight [thanks to a Hexbear rec] and probably something else in a different genre), but my most cynical take is that the series is stitched together with recycled action movie tropes and forced, smarmy teaching scenes between characters in order to get across a technical point.
Liu Cixin has a lot of great ideas, but occasionally (regularly?) cartoonish writing is def a fair critique of him
Yep. I've really liked the first two books after finishing them (will read the third after a detour through Blindsight [thanks to a Hexbear rec] and probably something else in a different genre), but my most cynical take is that the series is stitched together with recycled action movie tropes and forced, smarmy teaching scenes between characters in order to get across a technical point.