Death's end

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With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It was also named a finalist for the Nebula Award, making it the first translated novel to be nominated for a major SF award since Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities in 1976. 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 21st 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?

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Three-Body Problem finish submitted by SolaireFQ on June 24, 2017, 7:16am Fantastic conclusion to a complex, interesting trilogy.

A Good Ending submitted by purplewaves on August 1, 2018, 3:04pm I liked the finale better than the second volume. The ending is ambiguous and a little sad - and honestly, the characterization unfortunately fell by the wayside - but it was good!

The Novel at the End of the Universe submitted by Meginator on July 11, 2019, 8:55pm This book is nothing if not ambitious, and it is to Liu Cixin’s credit that it remains readable despite spanning the course of, well, arguably eternity. The characterization remains thin, as with the trilogy’s two previous volumes, but the novel’s grand scope and universe-spanning ambitions almost makes up for the lack of human intrigue. Liu once again fails spectacularly in his treatment of a leading female character, making the book feel like a flashback in the worst way, ands his attempt to make the case for humanity’s core altruism falls a bit flat without convincing characters to carry it. The plot is strung together through a series of increasingly implausible coincidences (even going by the genre’s rather forgiving standards) and some clumsy editorial decisions undermine some genuinely fascinating philosophical questions that lie at the book’s core. Nonetheless, there’s enough here to make the book well worth the effort, and it reads surprisingly quickly for its size and disjointed scope. If the series is, indeed, best understood as an extended thought experiment, this and the other books have just enough glue to keep them from falling apart at the seams, making the experience of reading them worthwhile and thought-provoking if not always pleasant. The book is imperfect at best, yet it is a testament to Liu Cixin’s vast imagination and it provides an excellent launching point for the great unanswerable questions about life, the universe, and everything.