Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy

by Liu Cixin

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Series: Remembrance of Earth's Past (1-3)

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Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum. Available now in a single volume, including: 1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM; 2 THE DARK FOREST; 3 DEATH'S END. Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-selling phenomenon -- soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.… (more)

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I liked all the sci-fi, but it seemed a bit dated in 2022. Some parts drag on, but not too much (

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bspar | Jan 1, 2023 |

zhe shi yiben haoshu aaa

kira059 | Oct 16, 2021 |

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zslegendsz | Oct 15, 2021 |

What's interesting about this book, which is about Earth learning of a hostile alien invasion some 500 years beforehand, and then planning to thwart, is that it takes place (mostly) in China. Subtle and not-so-subtle differences in values are apparent. I read this on the recommendation of Barack Obama, and it is an intellectual exercise. The writing is not lyric (although this depends somewhat on who's translating) and there's not much character development. But the problems set forth and the (hardly ever successful) solutions arrived at kept me turning the pages. (

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deckla | May 29, 2018 |

What can I say, brilliant writing and execution throughout all 3 books but ultimately left me feeling bleak and a bit unfulfilled story wise. The reason being the authors projection of Darwinism onto the universe: the very high tech sci-fi is driven by a very simple and ultimately dated mechanical survivalist perspective that does not properly account for emergence. When emergence is ignored in grand scale evolution fiction it tends to lead to oddly predictable behaviour no matter what level complexity is being dealt with, as is the case with this trilogy. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Liu Cixin	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Liu, Ken	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Martinsen, Joel	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

Death's End by Cixin Liu

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Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum. Available now in a single volume, including: 1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM; 2 THE DARK FOREST; 3 DEATH'S END. Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-selling phenomenon -- soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.

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