On the other hand, Wang Miao's angst over the death of Yang Dong dissipates pretty quickly- it was apparently just a plot device to force Wang Miao to meet Ye Wenjie, who is pretty clearly the real protagonist of the novel, and whose angst over the death of Yang Dong is the novel's final emotional note. And some of your other complaints are things that the book does come up with reasonable answers to.
On the whole, having finished the book, I feel it is a good but not brilliant SF novel of ideas. Not worthy of a Hugo, but not a complete disaster.
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Date: 2015-05-06 21:22 (UTC)On the whole, having finished the book, I feel it is a good but not brilliant SF novel of ideas. Not worthy of a Hugo, but not a complete disaster.