He was a student of the prestigious Shuimu university who woke up in the schools’ hospital after being unconscious for three days. He had fainted from heatstroke just four days ago. “Fatty, if you don’t lose weight, you’ll die”. Those were the words the school doctor said to him as he left the school hospital. He is a large man, with a height of 1.9 meters and weighs over 300 kilograms, he could be described as a mountain of meat. Everyone thought the reason he collapsed from heatstroke was that he is too fat. Little did they know that after he collapsed 10 000 nanobots and a nanobot control system entered his body.
During the three days he was unconscious, countless information entered his brain. There was information about machines, weaponry, movies, games, and even companies he has never heard of. There also existed major events that never happened before. When he woke up, it was as if he had a future memory or a dream. He later discovers the wonderful effects of the nanobots and how they can turn him into an engineering genius.
He starts having grand ambitions to improve the life of his family and even his country. But could he be capable of turning his ambitions into reality?
Chinese writing in this genre tends to be poorly written and hideously translated... This one has translation issues, but the story isn't all that bad.
This story takes a while to get used to. The translation is good enough to get the story, but some may have real issues getting through it.
As the story moves along, it does get more interesting. The main character uses his knowledge of mechanical processes to advance through the challenges.
There is a very hard core pro Chinese jingoism. I always find things like that fun and interesting. Those who don't have a sense of humor will be offended.
All in all, it is not a bad book. You will, at the very least, get an unintentional glance into Chinese thinking...
After purchasing \ reading all 20 books I appreciate your vision, thank you for sharing with me. The rating was due to the complete lack of editing, proofing, and some obvious translation issues. I understand the Propaganda orders, but to constantly glorify and expect a wide audience, might be a miscalculation. I'm not interested in your politics. Some very touching moments were there as well as some action sequences. I'll keep and eye out for anything new. Thank you again for sharing.
To begin with, I must admit that the translation of this book to English is awful. You find some sentences without a verb. Other feel like a direct translation from mandarin. However, it gives a certain flavor that is culturally appropriate for the book which I appreciate a lot.
You can get a lot of cultural hints from the science fiction written by other countries. You see it when you approach science fiction books written by Russian or Chinese authors. You also see it when the authors are from the States, (a lot of survivalism and guns and single rich men reaching the starts).
I found the story to be compelling,the character s are amazing and I found the culture to be the only thing I hope to better understand. The technical aspect was hard to follow. The nanobots were a neat twist,it was approached in a wonderful new way. I encourage others to read this book,I had a harder time with the technical aspects but the story was amazing.thank you for your hard work and please keep the books coming.
Truly a useless translation of a badly written, jingoistic filled story. I regret this purchase was an ebook because I'm denied the satisfaction of shredding and burning a copy of this. DO NOT BUY! Amazon really should be embarrassed by once again allowing such tawdry merchandise on their site with 18 favorable reviews. Looks like they are again allowing manipulated reviews...
This book was a waste of time. It was pitched as sf, instead it wound up as convoluted treatise of eastern love and relationship bumbling. The grammar and editing were subparagraph at best. Don't waste your money, if I could get a refund I would. I can't believe there are actually additional books in this storyline.
Managed to finish this book, I loved the story but had to reread some paragraphs just to translate the author’s meaning, really needs re editing by an English speaking proof reader.
Not a great book but it's not bad different from what I normally read. The story is interesting enough that I will get book two. Normal issues with the translation I have read worse translated books
Horrible literal translation. Virtually every paragraph has phrases or terms that make no sense in English. The dialogue is stilted and full of colloquialisms that are awkward or totally indecipherable. IMHO any 5 star review is either paid for or trying to blow smoke up your a**.
Difficult to read. Couldn’t get past the first chapter. Reads like a bad google translation,e.g. nano machines are described to be 25 to 30 meters long.