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Is "The Three Body Problem" anti communist propaganda? (hexbear.net)
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My partner keeps trying to read it and they keep stopping and reading me passages and then looking up actual historical fact and going wtf, this book is nonsense? Does it get better?

I don't know I haven't read it. I told them I'd ask here. Does it get better? Is it anti communist propaganda or is the ridiculous anti communist screed that starts this book serious off just setup for something better?

Thanks for all the good answers I showed them the whole thread and they said a lot of what you all said is in line with their understanding. So basically the first bit is a caricature of the bad parts of early Chinese communism and then that gets better but it turns misogynist instead. Fun series. They'll continue to read because we have a lot of family and friends who LOVE the book and they want to understand why but it's helpful to have the lens on it

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

However, like most Chinese boomers, he hates the typical “Western political correctness” stuff and it shows in his novels, but they have been largely edited out in the English editions so you won’t really come across them if you read them in English.

I remember there being a bit where a 21st century cryosicle is thawed out in a post-scarcity 2Xth century, goes "Damn, these dudes have long hair," and then it's never brought up again. Was this a whole plot thread that was cut?