Cixin Liu's Death's End: The Epic Conclusion to the Thrilling Trilogy

Henrik: Great trilogy, this 3rd book was great. Long, almost 700 pages.

Sweden on Sep 13, 2023

Josee: The printing format from this seller is bad, all crammed in and barely legible. Turns a 600 page book into 500

Canada on Sep 06, 2023

Julien: Concepts are wilds, best SF. It does need commenting.

Japan on Aug 06, 2023

Christian Poulin: Death's End is a satisfying conclusion to the events of the first 2 books. The a few time skips, which do help to tie up the loose ends. Great read throughout, except the "conclusion of the end". I wished there had been more to it...

Canada on Aug 04, 2023

Sofia Boquist: “Mere existence is already the result of incredible luck. Such was the case on Earth in the past, and such has always been the case in this cruel universe. But at some point, humanity began to develop the illusion that they’re entitled to life, that life can be taken for granted.”

This one was definitely the best one in the trilogy. A little too long for my taste but still a wonderful read. It was like nothing I’ve read before.

Sweden on Jul 31, 2023

Joe Karpierz: DEATH'S END brings popular Chinese science fiction author's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy (begun with Hugo winner THE THREE BODY PROBLEM) to a rousing, fulfilling, and moving conclusion. It is a story that spans millions of years and multiple universes. It is strange, wonderful, full of ideas, and thought provoking. It is grand in scope and despite that, personal in nature. It is quite possibly the best science fiction book of 2016, which was full of science fiction novels that could claim that title, as this year's Best Novel Hugo finalist list attests to. It deserves all those superlatives and more.

A summary of the plot of DEATH'S END is somewhat difficult, although the story itself is told in a somewhat straightforward (I was tempted to put the phrase "sometimes meandering" after straightforward, but that just didn't seem like the right thing to do) sequential manner. The story starts, in essence, where THE DARK FOREST left off. The people of Earth and the Trisolarans are at a standstill. Luo Ji, the one Wallfacer that actually did his job properly, found a way to hold off the Trisolaran attack via the Dark Forest defense. Luo Ji became what was called The...

United States on Jul 16, 2017

H. P.: With its completion with Death’s End, I can now say that the Remembrance of Earth’s Past is my all-time favorite science fiction series (says the noob of a sci fi fan). It opens just like you would expect the final volume of an insanely ambitious hard science fiction series to open, with a magician offering to help the emperor prevent the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Wait, what? This has never been a series interested in hewing to convention. And so we get a story spanning a few million years (specifically, 1453 – 18906416).

“Once, ancient Romans had whistled in their grand, magnificent baths, thinking that their empire, like the granite that made up the walls of the pools in which they floated, would last forever. No banquet was eternal. Everything had an end. Everything.”

(SPOILERS for the first two books in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series below.)

Did I say that Death’s End is insanely ambitious? It purports to encompass most of the history of humanity, and of the universe, within its scope. And, indeed, all things must end. But nor is “life . . . nothing but a fragile, thin, soft shell clinging to the surface of this planet.” As...

United States on Feb 15, 2017