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The Deep Forest by Liu Cixin. Part 2 of the trilogy. It's good but the translation is not as good as the first book. In fact, the prose is downright poor in places. Normally I'm pretty immune to the nuances of translation, but in this case the translation is rank. Fortunately the story is so strong that I keep reading it. At the same time, Liu goes on a bit. A well-established Sci-Fi God in China, I guess he doesn't need to worry about word count. But I think less words would have upped the pace. But its a good story, and well worth reading. It's very hard to find something as good in Sci-Fi genre as this these days. Happily the third book is translated by the translator of the first book.
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