/lit/ - Literature

I've just binged Three Body Problem and Dark Forest and am currently reading Death's End. Realized that I really enjoy these parts where they really go deep into explaining the scientific concepts (both real and imagined). Any other reccs for that? I've mostly read fantasy and not a lot of scifi at all so hit me up with even the most common ones.

>woman ruins everything, again and again: the book

Finished the series, and I’m disappointed, but not shocked. Dark Forest was so damn good I couldn’t imagine anything left worth half as much, and I was right. This book meanders, the flow of its narrative flip flops, and it has by far the worst protagonist in the series. The solar system is doomed because they trusted everything to a woman.
The only truly great parts were the Blue Space/Gravity chapters and the Singer’s chapter. You’ll notice those two have nothing to do with the main cast of characters. It almost pulled me back in with the last bit’s thesis on why the universe is dying, and that dark matter theory, which were fascinating, but bogged down by a horribly rushed ending. I might actually want to read the fanfic novel, if it at least gets the taste out of my mouth.

>emotionless aliens with nearly omnipotent technology threaten humanity to your face
>by sheer luck a chink builds a deadman's switch
>aliens forced to share tech by MAD
>world develops in 100 years into matriarchal society
>Luo Ji is forced to retire by all female Uited Nations after 100 years
>hands deadman's switch to woman
>loses entire planet's defenses in 10 minutes and literally chucks the switch away when aliens attack
Woman moment

Well, I regret reading this.
If you are not going to add plot to your wacky space theories at least make it short.

This shit is so dumb. A whole field of study devoted to deterrence, but nobody thinks to make a trigger with a 1/100 chance of setting off the system each time it's pressed so that you can keep pressing it until the Trisolarans back off.