'Death's End' by Liu Cixin is the final installment in the 'Remembrance of Earth’s Past' series, exploring grand concepts of humanity's destiny in an uncaring universe. The narrative spans from the cultural revolution to 18 million years in the future, delving into the inescapable darkness of the vision while raising questions about morality and the bleak nature of the universe. The author masterfully progresses from one event to its inevitable consequence, leading to a mind-blowing conclusion that challenges readers to think about the dark questions posed by the storyline.
presents a mix of hard science fiction and anthropological ideas, with each installment in the series showcasing a unique tone and direction. 'Death's End' changes themes and storylines multiple times, highlighting human survival as a species and focusing on the grandest scale of the trilogy. The narrative inspires with its raised stakes, despite losing some relatability found in the previous books, and provides an epic conclusion that is unlike any other science fiction novel.
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The novel contains themes of genocide, existential dread, and the ethical implications of life and death, which may be unsettling.
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"The War of the Worlds for the 21st century… packed with a sense of wonder." - Wall Street Journal
The New York Times bestselling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's bestselling and beloved science fiction writer.
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to read China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award.
Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death's End. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.
Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?
The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Other Books
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)
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2.5 stars
let me just say that there was no point in this entire trilogy when my mind was not blown
but this book, my favorite in the series, blew my mind so hard i may never recover
people are reeling in the wake of violence all over the world (i'm talking about the real world here, not the book)
and i want to tell them, can you please just take the long view - like the life of the universe long view? because i seriously feel like i got that view of life from reading this, and it has changed me
from now on everyone i meet has 1800 pages of required reading before they can engage in any kind of political discussion with me
physics, psychology, sociology, so many types of science are deployed in this book to excellent end
this is ultimately a love story to humanity
there are star-crossed lovers that shakespeare never could have imagined, but their love story (while it did twang my heart strings) is not the point
it's a love story for the human race, and it's place in the universe, and why we are here and what we should be doing with our time and i just can't think about this book without crying!
i can't believe i almost missed this because it wasn't translated into english
this is probably the best book i will read in 2017
Me ha defraudado bastante.
La historia empieza por donde acabo el anterior libro y por un tiempo parece una extension de este. Esta parte es la mejor.
Luego la cosa empieza a derivar hacia no se sabe que, todo mas grandioso, mas tiempo, mas distancia, mas poder y no se exactamente que hilo hay ya, ni se habla de la sociedad ni de nada, solo la protagonista pasandose por la historia de vez en cuando.
En total, como algun otro comentador ha dicho, lo mejor es acabar al final del primer o segundo libro.
Five stars are too low for this master piece. This is the best book in the series and one of the best novel I ever read. Each page throws up so many new ideas that it's impossible to grasp the scope of over all story.
Science fiction mixed with human emotion and psychology makes it a very interesting read. For every technological advancement, the social effects were discussed and shown how all the things in universe connected.
The grand idea of dark forest has been taken to it's extreme in this book. It's makes you wonder and at same time shiver also.
"Human civilization is a child who opened the door in the night and got afraid by the darkness outside. It closed the door so tight never to open again"
Fantastic series. Highly recommended.
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About the Author:
CIXIN LIU is a prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award and a multiple winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and the Xing Yun Award (the Chinese Nebula). He lives with his family in Yangquan, Shanxi.
KEN LIU (translator) translated the Hugo-winning The Three-Body Problem and edited Invisible Planets, the first English-language anthology of Chinese SF from the 21st century. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards for his own original fiction, he is the author of the Dandelion Dynasty series of silkpunk epic fantasy novels (The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms) as well as The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, a collection.
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