Review Detail of FAiri110 in Age of Cosmic Exploration
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TL;DR: Good translation, good plot but the novel is dropped by the author. All 4.5 stars are for the effort of the translator đ I've read a few Chinese web novels on outer space exploration and I've been a fan of them despite not knowing deep enough about this pseudoscience. This and The Temptess of Stellar War had very interesting plotline and makes you keep on reading non-stop. The translation quality is very good and the translator is very responsive to any mistake and suggestion given by readers. SPOILER!!! However, I wonder if @Lonelytree has read the novel till the end? Why again is this novel recommended to be translated in the first place?! I pity the translator as he/she had mentioned several times that s/he not really liking this story. The ending feels like it have been dropped half way, not the kind of open-ended, but like I-give-up-let's-end-it ending. The book ended like Titanic, but worse - some random granpa retelling stories of "this is how humanity is save". It's a freaking story time and the story ends at the climax of the arc! It mentions the final boss - the ultimate villain of outer space human civilization in the future (mad scientists - during human's 8 level civilization) and the worst nightmare of all civilization (the devils) but the story is far from end. It keeps on hinting about the aliens and the UFO being a God civilization, MC is The Immortal, the devils, the evil elitists that vie for power, and the possibility of the MC to be resurrected... for it to end when they're just nearing the 4th civilization! For what?!! I thought it has a 2nd book, but to my disappointment, the whole last arc had only 4-5 chapters and had not been updated since 2013. Even the Chinese community still ranting about this unpleasant end.
Age of Cosmic Exploration
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I did read it until the end. This story, despite its horrendous ending, was one of the most popular series on Chuang Shi [A subsidiary of CN Qi], so that was why it was recommended to be translated. I was handed it and at the time, i didn't realize what kind of sinkhole i was getting into, I was just getting started anyway. Regarding the ending, from the various author's notes, I have a few ideas: 1. His health, the author took quite frequent breaks during the later chapters because he was hospitalized. I have no idea how serious it was but it sounded quite serious. 2. Distraction, zhtty is also the author for Terror Infinity which I suppose is the project he prefers to spend more time on.
Thanks for clarifying. It's a shame though... I really want to hear the legend about our MC đ„ Glad that it's not some half-assed excuse made by the author to abandon this novel like that. I'll still follow your translation for this novel. Jiayou đȘđ
Lonelytree:I did read it until the end. This story, despite its horrendous ending, was one of the most popular series on Chuang Shi [A subsidiary of CN Qi], so that was why it was recommended to be translated. I was handed it and at the time, i didn't realize what kind of sinkhole i was getting into, I was just getting started anyway. Regarding the ending, from the various author's notes, I have a few ideas: 1. His health, the author took quite frequent breaks during the later chapters because he was hospitalized. I have no idea how serious it was but it sounded quite serious. 2. Distraction, zhtty is also the author for Terror Infinity which I suppose is the project he prefers to spend more time on.