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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I haven't seen so much effort put into a set in years. This would decent if it wasn't so damn propogandistic. Of course the message is "communism hates science".

From the Netflix science-fiction series Three Body Problem

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It’s all just “how do we justify interstellar invasion in a novel now that we know interstellar invasion is impossible and/or not worthwhile”. Like you say, it’s contrived.

I think the author would agree with this sentence lol, I've read nearly everything Liu Cixin has written that's been translated into English, he did say somewhere that sci-fi wouldn't be interesting if it was about what was the likely thing to happen. He said he doesn't believe the stories he writes are possible or likely, but just a way to explore different concepts.