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

When humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.

“From a scientific perspective, ‘destroy’ isn’t really accurate. Nothing has disappeared. All the matter that used to be there is still there, and so is all the angular momentum. It’s only the arrangement of matter that has changed, like a deck of cards being reshuffled. But life is like a straight flush: Once you shuffle, it’s gone.”

A museum was built for visitors; a tombstone was built for the builders.

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But, in our age, conscience and duty are not ideals: an excess of either is seen as a mental illness called social-pressure personality disorder. You should seek treatment.”

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The false alarm was the result of the explosive amplifying effects of a hyper-information society when fed sensitive news.

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