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Death's End

Book 3 of The Three-Body Problem

  • 724 pages · about 12 hours
  • First published 2010
  • 27 editions

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1 About this book

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.

Good for readers who want: science fiction, a survival story, aliens, and a long read.

  • Science fiction
  • Survival
  • Hard Science Fiction
  • Human-alien encounters
  • Imaginary wars and battles
  • Extraterrestrial beings

2 About Cixin Liu

Born 1963

Liu Cixin (Chinese: 刘慈欣; pinyin: Liú Cíxīn, pronounced; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer. In English translations of his works, his name is given as Cixin Liu. He is sometimes called "Da Liu" ("Big Liu") by his fellow science fiction writers in China.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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