
Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)

The child that was human civilization had opened the door to her home and glanced outside. The endless night terrified her so much that she shuddered against the expansive and profound darkness, and shut the door firmly.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
He thought of “The Judgment” by Franz Kafka, in which a father curses his son and sentences him to death. The son agrees, as easily as someone agreeing to take out the trash or to shut the door, and leaves the house, runs through the streets onto the bridge, and leaps over the balustrade to his death. Later, Kafka told his biographer that as he wro
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Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted five thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed to possess the power of gods; but in the end, the real power was wielded by time. Leaving behind a mark was tougher than creating a world. At the end of civilization, all they could do was
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“There’s no more home,” Luo Ji said, shaking his head and leaning against his cane. “Home is now just a picture.”
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
Delusions of Cosmic Persecution: The Last Attempt to Invalidate Dark Forest Theory
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
When dealing with such long timelines, as this book does, one thing that really helps arethese expository passages explaining how the society's lens has changed.
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I know about your experience as the Swordholder. I want to let you know that you didn’t do anything wrong. Humanity chose you, which meant they chose to treat life and everything else with love, even if they had to pay a great price. You fulfilled the wish of the world, carried out their values, and executed their choice. You really didn’t do anyth
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If a dark forest strike really arrived, there wasn’t enough time for any spacecraft to go from the Earth to Jupiter, the nearest barrier planet. In actuality, the Earth dangled over a sea of death. Rationally, everyone understood this, and the ugly fights that broke out during the false alarm were nothing more than meaningless mass madness driven b
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