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Abigail Nussbaum@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social |
Reading the Hugo-nominated Three-Body Problem graphic novel adaptation, and I'd really like to know why we never had a conversation about how this story, in all its incarnations (though the show and comic are more explicit), pushes the idea that environmentalism = advocating for species suicide.
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You gotta peak sometime
@walruspeen.bsky.social
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I took it as more of a statement about how environmentalist causes felt so hopeless that it's really easy for people devoted to them to become defeatist nihilists. But yeah, in general it's a book with little to take seriously, I guess, whatever its intentions.
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Aaron George
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I read the book as a critique of all systems that don’t take the individual into account. The communists want to build a utopia but hurt people to do it; Evans wants to save the birds but doesn’t care who he hurts; the alien cult wants to make a better world and is willing to kill humanity to do so
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Proof of Burden
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iirc, in the book the guy is shown to be a radical in the movement. I don't think Liu Cixin has any love for the wider environmentalist cause, but he does trace his radicalization as part of a motif of radicals betraying their more moderate allies
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Abigail Nussbaum
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I came pretty late to this book, and boy, for something that both SFF fandom and mainstream culture fell head over heels for not very long ago, it sure has a bunch of rancid ideas!
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Not that one, the other one
@theotherjustin.bsky.social
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If you thought so at the time you didn't want to say anything and possibly jeopardize the trend of publishers funding more translations of international books. Also fear that being too vocal a critic of the book might get you called anti-Asian.
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JonS253
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Lost me before I could read it, when I found it involved a species that had evolved on a world in a semistable orbit through a trinary system that would somehow still find Earth inhabitable. And is that system supposed to be Alpha Centauri? Because Proxima's not that close to the others.
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@rchaas.bsky.social
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Because it’s eclipsed by the awful sexual politics of the whole series? 😆
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James Davis Nicoll
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It fits in very nicely with a particular strain of Western SF, Pournelle and that crowd. The _science_ otoh could come right out of Amazing... circa 1928.
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