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0 pointspretendscholar8y ago0 comments

much what? Don't leave me hanging.

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'Bigger' is the word I would use. The scope of the story is incredible

I recently described the scope as an exponential function, which is really the only acceptable way of doing justice to the book.

algorithmsRcool8y ago

Yeah, that is one way of putting it.

Liu escalates the arms race between races in the last third of the book so far that i was genuinely shocked and mildly unnerved at the implications of it. The trilogy really should have been called "The Dark Forest" because that is precisely what is described therein.

once_inc8y ago

The trilogy is actually named "Remembrance of Earth's Past". That name is apt enough, though a bit bland. The Dark Forest is a pretty good concept though, and much more important to the story than the three body problem.

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thatcherc8y ago

'Bigger' is the word I would use. The scope of the story is incredible

once_inc8y ago

I recently described the scope as an exponential function, which is really the only acceptable way of doing justice to the book.

algorithmsRcool8y ago

Yeah, that is one way of putting it.

once_inc8y ago

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