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I just had a friend tell me he loved the whole series (with caveats), why didn't you like it?
The handwaving "science" part. And then in the end there's this deus ex machina plot point that comes out that makes all the rest of the plot utterly pointless.
I've read a lot of SF, that was the worst because I had such high hope for it after reading what everyone had to say about it. And it turned me off reading anything that's won a Hugo entirely. That and Redshirts...
That definitely makes sense. What's a good SF book you've read recently?
Mainly short story anthologies for the last year. Been bingeing Dozois' Years Best series and moved into Strahan's recently.
Oh nice, thanks for the recommendations
It really puts your suspension of disbelief to the test, and all the characters are terrible. I actually thought the netflix show was better than the book because the characters were alot more relatable.
Yah, totally forgot to mention how horrendously bad the characters were. Like 50's SF bad.
Yeah same here, I thought it was one of the few cases where the adaptation was better than the book. It cuts out a lot of the waffle from the books and patches up lots of holes, especially with characters like you said.