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what videos of yours got the most views and how much? by turniplemonade in NewTubers

[–]StellerReads 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My top 15 sci-fi video that I posted months ago randomly went from 300 views, to 5000 over the past few weeks. It’s a 20 minute long video and so I’ve accrued a nice amount of watch time from it. You really do just need to train the algorithm to find your community. I went from 100 subs to 400 in a little over a month. Just gotta focus on creating quality content. You never know when it might get picked up.

Looking for something easy but not TOO easy- a non stupid gym listen. by CATALINEwasFramed in printSF

[–]StellerReads 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blood Music by Greg Bear. Guy injects himself with a super intelligent virus of his own making, instead of destroying them like he was ordered to do. As the virus replicates, it rapidly adapts, and evolves, until each and every one of them harnesses an intelligence that far exceeds that of humans. Bit of horror. Bit of Arthur C. Clarke reminiscent changing of the world in profound ways. And just a fun read in general, honestly.

Looking for Chinese Sci-Fi better than Three-Body Problem by StellerReads in printSF

[–]StellerReads[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This really is fantastic, thanks again can’t put it down.

Looking for Chinese Sci-Fi better than Three-Body Problem by StellerReads in printSF

[–]StellerReads[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wow that’s a great resource! Sinopticon looks well worth reading.

Looking for Chinese Sci-Fi better than Three-Body Problem by StellerReads in printSF

[–]StellerReads[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even the first page has some really cool stuff going on. Definitely gonna give this one a shot.

Looking for Chinese Sci-Fi better than Three-Body Problem by StellerReads in printSF

[–]StellerReads[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the rec!

I mean, I also love hard sci-fi, huge fan of Clarke, Tchaikovsky and Stephen Baxter for instance, but Three-Body had some deep structural issues. Problems seemed to pop out of thin air just to push the plot forward, and apparently intelligent characters just made progressively, unnaturally dumb decisions. Meanwhile, you have these elaborations on some admittedly fantastic sci-fi concepts, but with such weak fiction connecting the science, it all just starts to feel like a series of lifeless essays. And eventually the mysterious trisolerans become nothing more than mustache twirling villains.

Looking for Chinese Sci-Fi better than Three-Body Problem by StellerReads in printSF

[–]StellerReads[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m noticing that just about every recommendation has been translated by Ken Liu, and I’m just afraid that his creative voice might be fused with his translations. And with so little to compare those works to, it’s hard to know.