MixedThe Sydney Morning Herald (AUS)As long as plenty of the pyrotechnics of advanced technology are included, dedicated sci-fi readers may not mind if Liu\'s characters are mono-dimensional, living only to explore the universe ... Some readers may find the author\'s explanatory postscript more enlightening than his fiction. Certainly another postscript, by translator Ken Liu, and his choice of words and footnotes explaining Chinese puns and historical references interest me more than Cixin Liu\'s imaginary deep space.
