I'll check this out thanks. I love hard sci-fi.
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I'm not sure how niche this novel is since Three-Body Problem hit the mainstream, but Diaspora reminds me a lot of Liu Cixin's earlier novel, Ball Lightning. Really raw and almost unpolished hard sci-fi. Which I love but of course might be niche. Please reach out and let me know how you like Diaspora after you read it, would love to hear other opinions.
Will do. I enjoyed ball lightning quite a lot, as well as the whole three body works. I'll have to wait to buy the book, it seems my library doesn't have it and it's not on Kindle Plus or whatever it's called. It's only 4 bucks so I'll pick it up tomorrow probably. I recall reading many of his books and I feel like I've read a sample of this one but I've been looking for some good sci-fi so I'll let you know what I think for sure.
Just finished this myself. Really glad I finally got around to reading it.
Does it seem like a lot of hard sci-fi is really about dealing with existential dread to everyone else? This definitely made it a theme, and I really appreciate the acceptance the characters showed, but it's still a bit of a bummer. It's almost like the more beautiful the mathematical concepts being explored, the darker the undertones. Or maybe the settings just make it all starkly bare.
The first of his books that I read. They are all mind blowing on their own ways. Not always easy reads, but super creative every time.
Sounds interesting I'll check it out.