I got an advance copy of this but hadn't gotten around to it, as though "Chinese sf" interests me "In the tradition of Asimov" does not. I had been hoping it was not actually in the tradition of Asimov, but it sounds like it pretty much is.
If a story is going to be solely about ideas and not about people, those ideas better be mind-blowing. Also, that sort of thing is much more tolerable in the form of a short story rather than a novel. (I have enjoyed soley-idea stories by Ted Chiang and Greg Egan, for instance.)
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Date: 2014-12-15 22:14 (UTC)If a story is going to be solely about ideas and not about people, those ideas better be mind-blowing. Also, that sort of thing is much more tolerable in the form of a short story rather than a novel. (I have enjoyed soley-idea stories by Ted Chiang and Greg Egan, for instance.)