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24 Jan 2024 Conversations with Tyler Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction
“I think the hardness of the science fiction in volumes two and three is immediately recognizable, even to people who are not science fiction fans but have seen a lot of cinema.”
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- 24 Jan 2024
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…Why do you think The Three-Body Problem took off the way it did? It is very, very good, right? I think the hardness of the science fiction in volumes two and three is immediately recognizable, even to people who are not science fiction fans but have seen a lot of cinema. I am surprised volume one did so well. It’s my favorite of the three volumes, but it’s maybe the most Chinese. The narrative is not, to an American eye, extremely linear. It can be confusing and that people never got — Can I ask you to be specific on what you mean when you say the narrative is the most Chinese? I’m just curious.…
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