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Death's End by Liu Cixin

Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)Death's End by Liu Cixin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

These are my thoughts on the novel Death's End by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin.

I have to say, when it comes to hard science fiction this novel is right at the top or very close. It concludes the trilogy of "Remembrance of Earth's Past". One really has to take their time reading this book and also has to have read the first two books of the trilogy. In addition, one should be familiar with the latest and greatest theories in physics and astrophysics.

The only real issue I have against the book is the inability of the author to conclude his plot. It gave me the impression that once he had out all his views and science points covered he couldn't really find a valid reason to finish off the book. He did finish it, but the conclusion of the plot was just weak. One of the reasons that I came to that conclusion, could be my bias against philosophy and beliefs that I am not very familiar with.

The book was written in Mandarin It was translated into English; many times I had to read annotations to understand better a Mandarin word or concept. I reminded myself that I have read other Oriental science fiction books from China and Japan and some of these also conclude in the same fashion. Normally my reaction is "what the frak just happened here". and feelings of disappointment Creeps into my soul. To understand better the plot you can go to this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%2....

But back to the hard science and latest theories in the book you're going to read the following or see the following theories and Science in astrophysics I'm going to write him in here as I remember them they're not in order but I'm doing this off the top of my head.

*Quantum entanglement
*Curvature propulsion Light speed using Alcubierre drive
*Dark Forest Theory.
*Medical Hibernation.
*Gravitic Lensing
*Genetic Engineering
*Antimatter weapon
*Hivemind immortality (Trisolaran
*Gravity manipulation, communications.
*Black Domain theory.
*Photonic.
*Membrane theory
*super String Theory


And I might have missed a few others but I think you get the idea. Remember if you decide to read the book, read the first two novels first and update yourself on the latest and greatest physics and Technology I don't think there's anything else that I can tell you. Oh yes, you also have to get used to oriental thinking.



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