100 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 3 May \ parent \ on: The Three Body Problem' And the Rise of Chinese Science Fiction • podcast BooksAndArticles
One of the things the person being interviewed notes is that the author wanted the Cultural Revolution stuff to be the opening scene in the first book, but his publishers (and possibly the government) required it be buried later, which I guess blunted some of that. The TV series puts it right at the start.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 3 May
I haven't seen the tv series yet (looks like it's going to be awesome), but the American copy of the book puts it up front as well. It's such a traumatic opening. I almost didn't read on thinking the whole thing was going to be non-stop horror. So glad I did. It really establishes the philosophical outlook of Ye Wenjie.
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