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Posted 2015-04-28 8:08 AM (#10341 - in reply to #10336)
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Guest - 2015-04-28 5:16 AM

Interestingly, not one of your questions popped to mind when I read the book, yet I can't really answer one of them since it's too long ago I've read it, and I don't remember the details. Weren't the suicides disguised murders though? A result of manipulations of the game, in favor of the other faction?

I also liked the feel of the game - the inconsistencies added to the flavor imo.

The same goes for the unfolding of protons: I thought is was a brilliant and even more or less plausible idea, given plain out the weirdness of all quantumphysics. But it creates a kind of godlike tool, that'll maybe be a just too powerful thing for the dynamics of the story. I'm curious how it will play out in the 2nd and 3rd books.


It wasn't so much the unfolding, per se; it was the weird effects, like becoming a spherical mirror that enwrapped the planet. It just seemed to me that this sort of thing belonged in the game, not on the real planet. A cute effect, sure, but completely unrelated to the plot - The Trisolarians are coming! The Trisolarians are coming!

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