I managed to get through the first book but it was embedded cultural mores like that that made it tough going for me. That’s probably a shortcoming in me more than any fault of the book—science fiction should take you to places that challenge you—but it wasn’t worth it for me personally.
The story explores some very intriguing concepts, (ftl travel, multi-dimensional space, dark forest theory, technological explosions, planck-tech, the list goes on) but I had the same problem. I listened to the audio book, so I had the benefit of mentally tuning in and out as the story waxed and waned.
The second book especially had something which really annoyed me. Mister main character has to save the world but he doesn’t wanna so the government tells him he can have whatever he wants so he asks for the perfect woman.
And then they just give him that? Her entire character is just that she’s perfect and loves him and apparently that’s real, she’s not pretending? The fuck? The story almost instantly jumps to them having children and I was reeling because holy fuck I have never seen a female character be so thinly presented and objectified. She’s literally payment for main charachter man to do what the government wants.
Then when they need to control MC boy again, they do it by taking this girl away from him. She’s literally treated like a “thing” that can be taken and given. Whose love can be switched on on demand, and whose free will/wishes automatically matches whatever the men around her/plot demands.
I managed to get through the first book but it was embedded cultural mores like that that made it tough going for me. That’s probably a shortcoming in me more than any fault of the book—science fiction should take you to places that challenge you—but it wasn’t worth it for me personally.
The story explores some very intriguing concepts, (ftl travel, multi-dimensional space, dark forest theory, technological explosions, planck-tech, the list goes on) but I had the same problem. I listened to the audio book, so I had the benefit of mentally tuning in and out as the story waxed and waned.
The second book especially had something which really annoyed me. Mister main character has to save the world but he doesn’t wanna so the government tells him he can have whatever he wants so he asks for the perfect woman.
And then they just give him that? Her entire character is just that she’s perfect and loves him and apparently that’s real, she’s not pretending? The fuck? The story almost instantly jumps to them having children and I was reeling because holy fuck I have never seen a female character be so thinly presented and objectified. She’s literally payment for main charachter man to do what the government wants.
Then when they need to control MC boy again, they do it by taking this girl away from him. She’s literally treated like a “thing” that can be taken and given. Whose love can be switched on on demand, and whose free will/wishes automatically matches whatever the men around her/plot demands.
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