I've only seen the first episode so far, but Three-Body (the Chinese series) might be the ticket for my next hard-SF view.

However, Liu Cixin, author of the original books, is now strongly in disfavour for endorsing China's human rights abuses against the Uighur people. Those crimes are also why many in #SFF oppose this year's WorldCon being held in Chengdu - though others think this hypocritical because the US engages in rights abuses, too.

Nothing is ever simple with humans involved. #CoSoTV

@MLClark
I'm glad I already read those books, without having to make that choice.

I was very surprised by the candor with which he described brutalities of the cultural revolution. Surprised that it would be allowed.

I've also known artists who were quite repugnant personally, but whose work was quite good.

Actually those books were so amazing that I would not even want to see a movie or series based on them, ethics aside.

@ceorl I've read and seen quite a few mainland-Chinese works similarly open about the brutality of the period and how it worked itself on the psyche of the people -- but you're absolutely right that there's a definite mystery as to how such works came to be within the propaganda machine.

And agreed! I'm a little reluctant to get to the parts where we inhabit the game-space. Some things are better left to the imagination, no?