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  • By: Cixin Liu
  • Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
  • Length: 29 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (374 ratings)

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Death's End

By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay.

Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge, and, with human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can coexist peacefully as equals, without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has made humanity complacent.

Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

©2010 刘慈欣 (Liu Cixin) (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd

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a masterpiece of sci fi and brilliantly narrated

This whole trilogy is mind blowing and the last book is the best of all. the author is a genius and the narration is superb

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a truly remarkable series

this trilogy takes physics into territory physicists can barely imagine, wraps it in an engrossing grand story and carries the reader through millennia of constantly surprising twists and turns. expect the unexpected.

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Really amazing

Next level stunning price of literature. I think this trilogy it will go down as one of the greats in history. Genius.

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A great story read brought to life by Bruno Roubicek. This is one of my favourite Syfy stories ever.

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Can skip

Rambling, sexist and overall rather dull end to the trilogy. Part of a proud tradition of blaming women for the fall of Civilization (this time universal Civilization).

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Good ending but overly technical

I loved the originality but the technical detail added to this last book made it very tedious to get through. I was definitely overwhelmed and pushed through.

Did it need the technical details? For me it lost the magic but I can see why the author included them.

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A sci-fi masterpiece unlike any other

I Baut listen to this on the recommendation of a good friend who is a sci-fi expert, and I’ve not been disappointed after a slow, start the book wines and weaves multiple threads into a great crescendo into weaving scientific facts and physical constants with great theory based imaginative plot developments,enough to delight the scientific and engineering mind. Also dealing with great concepts of humanity, including game theory, personal freedoms Vos public stability and progress, zero sum threats and deterrents survival of species and races. It’s no wonder Netflix are making a series based on these books. I hope they do it justice.

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Fantastic story

Fantastic story - one of my favourite sci-fi series. Once finishing the series, all the unexplained details earlier on make sense.

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True Sci-Fi at its grandest

This story contains concepts I could never have imagined, all derived from scientific principles. Epic scale story telling, mind expanding conceptualisation - less pop sci-fi and more true to the classic art form closely reminiscent of Asimov, but at 29 hours...going into a deep and detailed series of events. Utterly unique. Well narrated and Ken Liu needs special mention for somehow getting this into an English translation that honours the original. Excellence achieved.

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A disappointing end

This book was a grind and disappointing compared to the first two books. It took a huge change in direction and lost the character focus for a large part.

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