The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That's what you really want -- to internalize their way of looking at the world. If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.
Three Body Problem
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*I keep waiting for somebody to joke about a ménage à trois in the Netflix
adaptation of Three Body Problem*
Let me say how much I enjoyed the books and ...