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Amazon Plans Blockbuster TV Series Based On Chinese Sci-Fi Trilogy 'The Three-Body Problem' (medium.com)
hackingbear writes from a report: Amazon is reportedly likely to earmark $1 billion for a television series (Warning: source paywalled, alternative source) based on the ultra-popular Chinese science fiction trilogy The Three Body Problem. The American video subscription service will likely acquire the rights to the Yugo-winning, extremely popular trilogy of novels written by Liu Cixin and produce three seasons of episodes. The rights to the trilogy are currently owned by Lin Qi, the chairman of Youzu Interactive, a Chinese developer and publisher that typically focuses on online and mobile games.
Is Yugo the Chinese version of the Hugo award?
The Three Body Problem won a HUGO award: http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2015-hugo-awards/
Main protagonist characters are Chinese. The antagonists are not Chinese.
Just when you'd think everything on the small/big screen would suck forever. The announcement that they're making the Martian came as I still had vivid in my mind the book, so with this trilogy.
And this is really, really, really good for a series - and I mean for people with attention spans longer than 30 seconds. The book(s) just don't seem to end - in a very good way. I did have quite a few times the sensation that things are winding down and "this is it", nope - here comes more. And more. And more.
extremely popular trilogy of novels written by Liu Cixin
I don't read much sci-fi any more, but I like to think I at least know of the major authors. I've never heard of this person, or series. Or even that Chinese sci-fi was a thing. Anyone can comment on what they thought of it, or what the basic premise is, given TFS doesn't say anything about that? I presume it takes place beyond Earth, given the title.
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It sounds good and I will definitely watch it on my 55in streaming.
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Let's see whether the series does better. If not, all the better, more time to do other things!
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Just finished Cixin Liu’s trilogy:
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death’s End
Great hard science fiction.
I particularly like Cixin’s exploration of pessimistic outcomes in a matter-of-fact manner.
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Whining about how people use language won''t make them use it the way you want them to. It just makes them dislike you and listen to you less.
At an auto garage:
-Hi, I'd like an exhaust for my Yugo.
(after several seconds of deep thought on the part of the mechanic)
-OK, sounds like a fair trade...
-How do you double the price of a Yugo?
-You fill it up with gas. (that's petrol in the UK)
-Why does the Yugo come with rear windshield heaters?
-To warm the hands of the people pushing it.
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I really tried to like this. There were some good ideas and plot points, but it felt stilted and clunky. I think the translation was to blame. I didn't like it enough to read the second one.
In Blue Origin every year? So the real thing costs as much as the fake, amazing.
I thought the same thing. $1 billion represents at least 20,000 man years (at 50k/year).
Is a TV show really the best use of this?
The extravagance of the pyramids pale in comparison to what we waste on entertainment today.
Can you imagine actually deciding to put 20k people to work on a single project like this?
It's absolutely fascinating that we have this much excess labor but we shouldn't be squandering it.
Hollywood has made many movies that do not have any relation to the book that the movie was purportedly based on. We shall we see how they do it this time. One of the better lines from a author that had a movie that was only tangentially made from one of his books and the audience was saying they ruined the book when something like this, " How could they have ruined the book? The book is still the same as when it was printed".
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1) The Three Body Problem was very much full of internal narratives and contemplative plot points; I have to imagine that's all going to vanish in the screenplay in favor of a massive CGI budget for SFX.
2) Chinese-origin fiction is commercially a great idea regardless considering the potential audience.
3) personally I thought the books were pretty bad structurally and shallow/2-dimensional in terms of character, comparable very conceptually to the 'fantastical' sci-fi of the pre-Golden Era books (Perelandra, etc). I thought their Hugo award was more a charity-award to encourage the nascent Chinese science fiction market.
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A big budget Hamilton’s Commonwealth series at one season per book, starting with Pandora’s Star would be mindblowingly awesome. Would be a great follow up to Game of Thrones for HBO.
Maybe they only won a Yugo for the book. Obviously not very impressive work if so.
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The only thing I would remove is this : as opposed to "a "Literary" faction" and puppies I view both puppies : the left puppies and the right puppies both pushing an agenda of their own. Both have at time applauded literary work for reason other than pure literature, be it gender promotion or whatever. If you ignore both of them and judge work on their own literary merit, you are better off.
;-), and this is why I am still enjoying call of cthulhu in spite of lvoecraft ebing an obnoxious mysoginistic racist.
After having read the some of the controversial "book" the right puppies accused the left puppies of pushing, I could agree at least on some point, that some were obviously pushed for reason other than literature, I can remember one about transgender issue I found the writing so poor I could not see why this book was promoted for Hugo novel. But the same way hold the other way around the right puppies having so obnoxious agenda pushing that you gotta vomit.
In the end my recommendation is : ignore both puppies, ignore the gender or sexuality of an author, enjoy the story and writing. Only the story content should matter. Which is why I am still reading Orson scott card in spite of its view , I just refuse to pay money for it and loan it from library
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I always thought the "three body problem" was how to ensure the other two don't get jealous of each other and ruin everything.
Except using $50k is a stupid baseline, first nobody but a fastfood worker or similar low wage job actually costs their employer only $50k per year in the west. To cost your employer only $50k you'd have to be making near minimum wage if working full time after benefits and taxes is factored in. If you're talking professionals like AV artists you're talking more like $150k fully loaded costs, in that light having nearly 7,000 man-years involved in such a project is high but not outrageous. There are much worse uses for labor than entertainment, particularly well done entertainment.
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Looks like there will be a lot of hype to happen with this story. Maybe a game and movie version? The question will be, "How will it play in San Diego?" Personally, it is nice to see something different.
And slashdot was equally ignorant to post without correction.
The author did not receive a car from a company in one of the nations of the former Yugoslavia.
He did, however, receive the Hugo Award (tm, really) for Best Novel for the first book. The Hugo Award is named after Hugo Gernsback, who started the first science fiction magazine, Amazing, in 1926.
Except using $50k is a stupid baseline, first nobody but a fastfood worker or similar low wage job actually costs their employer only $50k per year in the west.
I was being generous with the $50k. The median income in the USA is around $30k ( https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and is only about $10k if you are looking at worldwide income.
Basically, a billion dollars is approximately 100k man-years of labor if you use the median global income. You could literally hire 10k people to work for you for 10 years (or 1k+ people for life).
I realize that other movies and entertainment spend similar amounts of money but it's mind-boggling that we are using so much labor and resources for something so immaterial.
From your own link, median net compensation was $46,641 in 2016, the cost of that employee is about 150% of that ($35.87 per hour according to the BLS, that works out to $71,740 based on a 2,000 hour work year). The median cost for professionals was $60/hour or $120k per year, much closer to my original number than yours and the BLS numbers are direct compensation costs, there are things like office space and HR costs that raise it to at least my number.
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From your own link, median net compensation was $46,641 in 2016
That is the average. The median from the same link is 30,533. The average is higher because of a bunch of rich people at the top.
I realize that movie professionals make considerably more than that but my point really was the huge opportunity cost that we waste on entertainment.
While I'd admit I know little of the factions, and care less there have been examples of left/right pushing agenda for many decades, so it is hardly new. Though gaming the system only seems to hurt the readers who might depend on awards to give them reading ideas. Abuse it too much, and people will just stop paying attention to the award, and then it will eventually become irrelevant and go away.
Though your Lovecraft comment reminded me however that you really need to keep some perspective about when a work was written. I mean Lovecraft wrote in what the 1920's? Being an "obnoxious mysoginistic racist" perhaps wasn't so uncommon by today's standards. Similarly a lot of the science fiction I enjoy, particularly from the 50's and 60's from certain authors are just as mysoginistic and right leaning if not more, but again it was a different time, and for some folks more than others. Heinlein and Bova for example.
Heck it can surprise you, I was on an 18h car ride listening to Lovecraft, when he start talking about a certain black cat with what would be a pretty unacceptable name today, and I remember thinking "what the heck am I listening to?" In the end, as said it was a different time, from a guy long dead, and if you find it too offensive then just don't read it.
At the same time, that is what makes some of the older works so amazing, like Vern and Wells. When reading it, initially doesn't sound too fantastic until you think about the time it was written and what sort of technology they had available back then (or lack thereof).