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

A lovely dream had ended: Dark forest theory had received its final confirmation with the annihilation of Trisolaris.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
That was a quick reversal.
The place wasn’t at all what she had expected from an intelligence agency for the whole world; it reminded her more of a place where byzantine plots were hatched through whispers.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
The boat began to move by itself, sailing from one edge of the tub to the other. Cheng Xin understood right away. As the soap dissolved in the water, it lowered the surface tension of the water behind the boat. But as the tension in the water in front of the boat remained unchanged, it pulled the boat forward. A bolt of lightning seemed to illumina
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If a colony of ants continue to move clods the size of grains of rice, they could remove all of Mount Tai in a billion years. As long as you give it enough time, life is stronger than metal and stone, more powerful than typhoons and volcanoes.”
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
Besides being a cosmic safety notice, the Black Domain Plan was also a form of technological self-mutilation. Humans would never be able to escape from this reduced-lightspeed trap.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
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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But buildings looked very different after being flattened: it was almost impossible to deduce the original three-dimensional structure from the two-dimensional drawing by imagination alone. However, it was certain that image-processing software equipped with the right mathematical model would be able to.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
The paintings in the stories, as well as the storage media conversations moments ago, act as perfect analogy here.