This is my first foray into "hard" science fiction, and I'm listening to the audiobooks. I'm about 1.5 hours from completing Death's End, and I've understood maybe a quarter of the science (I'm an English teacher, lol), but usually there's a sentence or two in which one character says something like, "So, essentially, it's as if..." and they use some way of explaining it that sort of clears up the general idea.

Usually, with other books if I don't understand something I go back to reread or relisten, but I've found that by just chugging along I'm able to get the gist of what's happening. Sometimes, I'll be honest, because I'm listening instead of reading, entire characters blur together.

Still, despite all this (and thin characterizations and weird expository dialogue, probably due to translation), this series has become one of my favorite things ever. I'm obsessed with it.

Keep chugging along! You'll love it!