7/1/2023 0 Comments Download the alien trilogy![]() ![]() And I argue that Childhood’s End is an unapologetic justification of (British) colonialism (dressed up as the benevolent Overlords) and propaganda for colonial logics, whereas Liu’s trilogy is a representation of the colonial encounter story written from the point of view of the (semi-) colonized, for whom this experience is characterized by dehumanization. I will especially look at how the narrative point of view and the consequence of the alien encounter differ in the two texts. This essay compares the differences between their alien encounter sf, focusing on Childhood’s End and The Three-Body Trilogy ( Santi sanbuqu). ![]() But their imagination of the alien other has one major difference: While the aliens in Clarke’s sf are mostly benevolent, those in Liu’s are mostly malevolent. One similarity between Liu and Clarke is the obsession with the imagination of the alien encounter. He himself humbly states on several occasions that everything he writes is just clumsy imitations of Arthur C. Clarke (1917−2008) ever since he won the 2015 Hugo Award for best novel. 1963) has constantly been dubbed as China’s Arthur C. Chinese science fiction (sf) writer Liu Cixin (b.
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