KS> I've read most of them, some are quite different thats for sure. Which ones
KS> did you not like or thought didn't fit the series?
Consider Phlebas, in hindsight or on a second readthrough, felt like it was
written solely from the motivation of having it optioned and turned into a
movie. Over indexing on anything that would make for a shiny action scene or a
great snippet for a movie trailer instead of actual substance
Player of Games - Felt a little too focused on the local/micro and not enough on
the macro
Use of Weapons - Felt too focused on the individual and less on the broader
canvas that he found himself in
Inversions - Didn't even feel like it belonged in the series, I'm never a fan
when scifi goes all fantasy/medieval and I believe this one was the one with the
cat people? Just felt out of place
Surface Detail - Cool concept, not as much dislike as the others in my list here
but seemed to focus a bit too much on the hell and less on the broader picture.
The rest of the series is easily some of the best scifi I've read, for me
personally I just wanted more of that Space Opera feel.
KS> mg> did they get? Thinking about it, India got the first mover advantage
KS> mg> the realm of outsourced services and China for manufacturing and
KS> It does seem like China's economy is ready to collapse in some way, as
KS> per my response to Dr What, it looks like China's regional governments'
KS> over reliance on borrowing to fund real estate projects which they try
KS> to sell for a profit has failed badly... I wonder how they'll try to fix
KS> that mess.
All very good points and the last one is something overlooked so often when
people claim that China is relatively debt-free compared to the west, ignoring
or being ignorant of the fact that China's debt is distributed federally,
provincially and municipally instead of just at the federal level. Putting all
level of debt together China's on par or worse with most western nation in pure
numbers but seemingly much much worse in terms of sustainability. It really
does look like a house of cards that's starting to crumble. There is a youtube
channel called tl;dr News that has some good short pieces on this. They are
stuck in this spiral, partly exaccerbated by Ping's semi-religious hatred for
western consumerism, trapping them in this reliance on a low-wage export driven
economy. I haven't heard of any reasonable solution so far to get them out of
this quagmire, have you?
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