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What's the word for realising, eighty-five percent of the way through the book, that this is the first part of a trilogy, a fact not indicated anywhere on the cover

qntm

@qntm

Jun 30, 2019

I'm going to call it "getting Three-Bodied" after The Three-Body Problem, which I just finished, which has two sequels and no substantial conclusion of its own and also isn't very good

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

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The second book is amazing, and can serve as an ending to the story started in the second book. I often tell friends who do not enjoy reading to stop at the second book; the third book has a few great ideas and a handful of good scenes, but ends badly.

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How much of that is in the translation? Books 1 and 3 are translated by Ken Liu, book 2 is someone else. I haven't read that series, but I did read Chen Quifan's "Waste Tide", also translated by Ken Liu, and enjoyed it.

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Started in the first book*