How unable to witness the world’s beauty as its own.
Humans exist on a survivable vaneer created through chance and time, and we will equally cease to exist if that small biome is disrupted.
Your earlier comment states we could wipe the trees from existence on a whim, and you are completely correct, however how long would we survive without them?
Could you be so shallow to believe that the progress of other humans is so great, that we do not need the very nature that keeps us alive?
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
It was using a high power radio transmission through the corona of the sun to act as a lens to magnify the signal, essentially turning our sun into a lighthouse. The shit that happens in the third book is mind melting in comparison. Dimensional attacks (shifting your dimension downwards) from 3D to 2D, by a potentially multidimensional entity, ironically unrelated to the original antagonists, and thus confirming the Dark Forest Hypothesis.
:::
The show is worth seeing after the read. It’s unlike any other sci-fi show out there and the production is A+++. They hit a lot of the notes the book pushes and honestly it’s refreshing to see some of the changes despite it affecting the cast.
I really enjoyed the first of the Final Architecture books, and found the second enjoyable, but by the third I was starting to fatigue to the concepts and found the story to be more and more tedious to finish: something Tchaikovsky’s other works didn’t do to me.
So. To save you some time, none of them need to be read in order (although Consider Phlebas is the best starting point), the books I recommend are:
Use of Weapons,
Excession,
Look to Windward,
Matter,
Surface Detail
…. Wait. You know, I just looked at a list of the Culture novels and realized I HAVE read them all except Surface Detail(which I am currently reading and enjoy) and honestly Player of Games is the weakest of the lot followed by Hydrogen Sonata.
You really did stop reading right as it gets really good. Use of Weapons and Excession especially open up the world and really start pushing cool concepts.
It’s complex. Essentially our two systems were close enough to traverse with their technology and it was worth their while due to their systems instability.
The title “Three Body Problem” is referencing their systems three suns and their world’s unstable orbit.
Has this man never used shoes?
“You won’t have this, you will have that.”
I read the article. It was enlightening.
winget install -e --id LibreWolf.LibreWolf
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
This powershell script is such a lifesaver for people who constantly reimage windows.
It has a few scripts in it to rip out AI and telemetry as well as many windows features, without having to even open edge.
(I use Fedora btw)
I have a strong belief that love is the time you spend with or thinking about someone else.
If you strive to spend time with someone and enjoy them, that is one form of love.
It’s Arch.
Experience.
As long as you stay current and are willing to be malleable, your mind is a weapon forged with time.
How narrow your view is.
How sad and singular its path.
How unable to witness the world’s beauty as its own.
Humans exist on a survivable vaneer created through chance and time, and we will equally cease to exist if that small biome is disrupted.
Your earlier comment states we could wipe the trees from existence on a whim, and you are completely correct, however how long would we survive without them?
Could you be so shallow to believe that the progress of other humans is so great, that we do not need the very nature that keeps us alive?
Sadness, all of it.
Bunch of us in agreement here.
Keep up the fight, it’s a great example of how not to be for future generations.
Nothing exists for humans. Fix yourself.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler It was using a high power radio transmission through the corona of the sun to act as a lens to magnify the signal, essentially turning our sun into a lighthouse. The shit that happens in the third book is mind melting in comparison. Dimensional attacks (shifting your dimension downwards) from 3D to 2D, by a potentially multidimensional entity, ironically unrelated to the original antagonists, and thus confirming the Dark Forest Hypothesis. :::
I suppose they can do about 25x more. But that’s just my bad math.
The show is worth seeing after the read. It’s unlike any other sci-fi show out there and the production is A+++. They hit a lot of the notes the book pushes and honestly it’s refreshing to see some of the changes despite it affecting the cast.
I really enjoyed the first of the Final Architecture books, and found the second enjoyable, but by the third I was starting to fatigue to the concepts and found the story to be more and more tedious to finish: something Tchaikovsky’s other works didn’t do to me.
So. To save you some time, none of them need to be read in order (although Consider Phlebas is the best starting point), the books I recommend are:
Use of Weapons, Excession, Look to Windward, Matter, Surface Detail
…. Wait. You know, I just looked at a list of the Culture novels and realized I HAVE read them all except Surface Detail(which I am currently reading and enjoy) and honestly Player of Games is the weakest of the lot followed by Hydrogen Sonata.
You really did stop reading right as it gets really good. Use of Weapons and Excession especially open up the world and really start pushing cool concepts.
I haven’t, but I’ve also found that I prefer his earlier works. The Void Trilogy is another good opera.
I’ll tack on here: if OP doesn’t want to commit to 2500 pages of trilogy: the first book I read by Hamilton was Fallen Dragon.
It uses some concepts familiar with his other works, but presents them in very different ways, and the overall novel is shortish.
The use of semi biological power armor throughout is honestly super cool.
I’ve read most of the series and I would say this is my experience with half of it.
Some books are bangers others are flops. But overall the entire thing is worth reading for the universe he presents.
It’s complex. Essentially our two systems were close enough to traverse with their technology and it was worth their while due to their systems instability.
The title “Three Body Problem” is referencing their systems three suns and their world’s unstable orbit.
It’s worth the read.
They mad the only cells they own are kept in a sock.