The book was recommended to me by multiple people over the past year or so, finally got to reading it couple days ago. I'm done with the first book and reading Dark Forest now.
Loving it so far, it's one of the more thoughtful and dare I say realistic depictions of an alien species, certainly very interesting. I was always a sucker for exoplanet exploration, and having a world in a chaotic three-star system really stimulates one's imagination. Author doesn't take sides or patronizes readers on various issues that the book touches, which I really appreciate. It's simply exploring hypothetical scenario and how humanity would deal with it, as objectively as it can.
It seems that in the show, they replaced Wang Miao, through whose point of view much of the first book is presented, with a team of diverse individuals (muh women in STEM). That's certainly a sign of typical Netflix butchering adaptation.
After reading a certain scene in the book, my mind went back to a similar scene in the trailer. I'm talking about the scene where cosmic background radiation is made to flicker in order to convey message to Wang Miao... in the show they made it flicker in visible light, which would have very different implications. It likely was dumbed down because the hollyweirdo retards thought that the viewing audience is as retarded as them and would be confused by the original scene if it was faithfully adapted.
I like the books, have little hope for the show. There's apparently an animated adaptation by Tencent that came out in 2023, I already downloaded that today. From what I read, it's pretty good.
