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#4451785 - 12/04/18 01:36 PM The Wandering Earth (2019 release)  
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Has anyone read any of the books by Mr. Liu Cixin? The man won a Hugo for "The Three Body Problem" (need to add that to my reading list) so I would hope story and film are good.

The trailer looks good, but nothing revolutionary. I will still check it out and hope it is in theaters over here in Feb 2019.



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#4451814 - 12/04/18 04:01 PM Re: The Wandering Earth (2019 release) [Re: Patrocles]  
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The story was actually somewhat original (and quite epic).
The writing style - I don't know. This may be due to my inability to read ther Chinese original, maybe the style is very elegant there. The German translation's stype was ... meh. But maybe it was a very good thranslation that perfectly transported the mehiness of the original.

That said, first of all it's a trilogy, and I have just gottern my hands on the second book. The first book contained enough ideas and scenes for three books alone, so it's definitely not stretched to the max (dare I mention the Panama Canal situation).

In summary: You should definitely put it on your reading list. It's the kind of idea-rich SF that the early Larry Niven wrote (although his strengths were in the short story domain), or Neal Stephenson in his more epic works (less the refined style, however - but maybe the English translation is a good read, I wouldn't know).

#4451975 - 12/05/18 07:15 PM Re: The Wandering Earth (2019 release) [Re: Patrocles]  
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Put the first book on hold from local library. It seems to be a popular series. The library has 10 -20 copies of each book in the trilogy and twice as many holds by patrons.


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#4452162 - 12/06/18 10:21 PM Re: The Wandering Earth (2019 release) [Re: Patrocles]  
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#4452175 - 12/07/18 12:00 AM Re: The Wandering Earth (2019 release) [Re: Patrocles]  
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I am sure there is more too it, but at first thought, pushing the planet out of the solar system does not look like it would solve the problem of weather being too cold . . .

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Originally Posted by Ssnake
The story was actually somewhat original (and quite epic).

...that was in reply to the "three body problem", not THIS movie or the story behind it. Just a clarification.

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Originally Posted by Nimits
I am sure there is more too it, but at first thought, pushing the planet out of the solar system does not look like it would solve the problem of weather being too cold . . .


If the premise of the story is that the sun is turning into a red giant, then ... well, it wouldn't get too cold at the beginning, but rather too hot, in which case pushing the Earth outward (if that were possible (no, it isn't)) would actually help. But i guess the basic story is that mankind first sends a fleet of spaceships, but there isn't enough of them to evacuate the planet (plausible), so they go underground (yes, that would solve the temperature problem, but incurs other ... complications). And THEN, because they have literally nothing to lose, they develop the technology to turn Earth into its own spaceship. The question is basically, do you buy the premise and can you suspend your disbelief (usually _I_ can't for the typical Hollywood drivel like "The Core" or "Sunshine", but that doesn't mean I have to try and stop others from enjoying it).

#4452225 - 12/07/18 09:51 AM Re: The Wandering Earth (2019 release) [Re: Ssnake]  
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Originally Posted by Ssnake
pushing the Earth outward (if that were possible (no, it isn't))


If you haven't already, you could check out Greg Bear's Moving Mars, which has a novel solution for this. I like a lot of Greg Bear's stuff, starting with Eon, a great book but suffers slightly from being written while the cold war was still a thing.

I'm currently re-reading Darwin's Children, a really great book, definitely one of his best and, as usual for Greg, full of hard sci-fi. (I call sci-fi that's based in current hard science "hard sci-fi" :))


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#4452227 - 12/07/18 10:10 AM Re: The Wandering Earth (2019 release) [Re: Patrocles]  
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Eon weas a hoot, I agree.

#4452228 - 12/07/18 10:16 AM Re: The Wandering Earth (2019 release) [Re: Patrocles]  
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Actually I meant Darwin's Radio, Darwin's Children is that book's follow-up. Children is more about the sociological impacts rather than the science.


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