Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #3) (The Three-Body Problem, #3)

by Cixin Liu

Ken Liu (Translator)

Winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.

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 and, with human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has made humanity complacent.

Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired.

'A milestone in Chinese science fiction' New York Times.

• ISBN10: 0765386631
• ISBN13: 9780765386632
• Publish Date: 5 September 2017 (first published 20 September 2016)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Tor Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 624
• Language: English

Reviews

[ayla_abbott]

I consider this more of a three-volume novel; read all three, back to back, and if possible, while drinking bathtubs full of coffee over the course of however many days it takes. Sleeping is a luxury.

There's noting more to say that others haven't said, but it is, quite possibly, one of the best books (I mean all three taken together) that I've ever read. It will haunt me like only a few others have ever done.

I wonder how representative this series is of Liu Cixin's body of work. I hope more of his stuff gets translated into English so we can find out.