Monday, June 19, 2017

Death's End by Cixin Liu (4 stars)

Another impressive, thoughtful novel by Cixin Liu, closing out the series. I'm finding these fairly hard to review, mostly because I've waited too long to write the reviews, but here's some random thoughts.

The thought experiment of what would happen if humanity developed highly reliable hibernation technology was interesting and fairly horrifying:
Once the technology was successfully commercialized, those who could afford it would use it to skip to paradise, while the rest of humanity would have to stay behind in the comparatively depressing present to construct that paradise for them.
Shooting a brain out into space with a series of nuclear weapons was badass.

The transition from Luo Ji to Cheng Xin as swordholder was brilliantly executed and shocking.

The specific focus on Australia as a refugee settlement was fairly weird.

4 stars.