![]() You could be crying through the whole film if you had already read Ted Chaing’s novella and knew of essence of the story. The Dark Forest in particular ends with its spectacular image, as the crews of the ship start to appreciate their (and our) condition.Īrrival, like Solaris, Silent Running, 2001: A Space Odyssey likewise tightly focuses on emotion. ![]() At another level the two novels wallow in an enduring theme of human art, the loneliness of being human. At one level they are both fairly conventional Vernor Vinge-style big space opera novels (the two are part of a trilogy). ![]() Early November I was mesmerized by Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest. ![]() The refuge from a depressing present (Roch Marc Christian Kaboré since winning the election last year has done almost nothing, and Burkina Faso’s prospects for a vibrant economy and polity seem to fade with each passing week ) is in science fiction. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |