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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Anyone who has read the books want to chime in? I read the books and they had a "painting in a museum" type quality to them, where each chapter was a well described static scene. Fun concepts (in particular, the Dark Forest concept), but really dry prose...

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I had the exact same impression. Excellent ideas but need more fleshing out

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