eBook, 832 pages
French language
Published Jan. 6, 2021 by Éditions Actes Sud.
Un demi-siècle après l’Ultime Bataille, l’équilibre précaire dû à la dissuasion de la forêt sombre continue de maintenir les envahisseurs trisolariens à distance. La Terre jouit d’une prospérité sans précédent due au transfert des connaissances et des technologies trisolariennes. La science humaine connaît des progrès pour ainsi dire quotidiens, les Trisolariens découvrent avec fascination la culture humaine et l’espoir grandit que les deux civilisations puissent bientôt coexister pacifiquement sans la terrible menace d’une annihilation réciproque. Mais lorsqu’une ingénieure en aéronautique originaire du début du XXIe siècle sort de son hibernation, elle réveille avec elle le souvenir d’un programme qui menace cet équilibre. Bientôt, l’humanité aura à faire un choix : partir à la conquête d’autres univers ou mourir dans son berceau. Après Le Problème à trois corps et La Forêt sombre, Liu Cixin referme l’un des cycles de science-fiction les plus ambitieux de ce siècle.
Han pasado casi dos meses desde que terminé la trilogía y me sigue dando escalofríos. Creo que este libro es como el terror cósmico realista, esas ideas de lo inmenso (lo inconmensurable) del universo. Lo terriblemente cruel que es la supervivencia, el poco freno que la moral puede poner a eso. Y lo peor, lo cercano y verdadero que se siente eso...
The story looks complete by the end of the second book. The third one feels weak, as well as the third book's protagonist
Man I hate these aliens!
The conclusion of the Remembrance of Earth's Past makes Interstellar look like baby shit.
Great book. The development of the story is amazing. It scratches all the sci-fi itches and it's highly addictive.
My only complaint about this book is that it's the last written by Liu Cixin (in this series) and the ending seemed too quick for me. I would love to have more development and many more books on this universe to read.
This is really a 4.5 for me. As this series has progressed, the writing has been better and better. Once again, the author has been able to mix a vast, epochal scale, with a small, intimate story. It was optimistic at its core, despite being riddled with pessimism.
If you like (extremely) hard sci-fi, this whole series is wonderful.
In between significant and smaller blind spots—including, like Goethe, promoting a stalker's idea of love—is a work of phenomenal imagination. It's the most absorbing book of the three, and excitingly explores ideas of humans in time and space.
Not worth the effort. No noticeable character development, no excitement, pretty much no fun.
The story continues to expand to fill the universe, a feat of imagination worth tagging along with.
Amazing ideas coupled with clichéd stereotypical one dimensional characters. A very disappointing end to the series
Ta jedna hvězdička je jen za to, že to konečně skončilo. Jinak to nestojí za řeč.
Expected at least one expansion of the idea from the previous book, got a bunch of interesting and elegant twists.
In short, humanity's problems escalated from the scale of cities and dozens of years to the scale of the Universe and infinite time span.
Has a couple of holes in the plot, but I think it's even better with them.
An excellent conclusion to one of the best sci-fi trilogies I've read.
The book as a whole was wonderful and I'm so glad I read it, but I do want to mention that as endings go, I felt the ending of the second book more satisfying and conclusive.
Some notes about the ending from my reread (for those who have read the book):
The ending was way more melodramatic than it needed to be, in my opinion. There were a couple easy solutions:
- Presumably AA and Yun Tianming had their own ship (or how did Tianming get there) so couldn't they have flown up to relativistic speeds and gone forward in time to meet the others? I'll admit that timing the deaccelaration would be extremely tricky since they didn't actually know when the others would come out of relativistic speeds, but it could probably be solved with some application …
An excellent conclusion to one of the best sci-fi trilogies I've read.
The book as a whole was wonderful and I'm so glad I read it, but I do want to mention that as endings go, I felt the ending of the second book more satisfying and conclusive.
Some notes about the ending from my reread (for those who have read the book):
The ending was way more melodramatic than it needed to be, in my opinion. There were a couple easy solutions:
- Presumably AA and Yun Tianming had their own ship (or how did Tianming get there) so couldn't they have flown up to relativistic speeds and gone forward in time to meet the others? I'll admit that timing the deaccelaration would be extremely tricky since they didn't actually know when the others would come out of relativistic speeds, but it could probably be solved with some application of the high-tech Trisolaran technology Tianming must inevitably have had. But there's an even simpler solution:
- AA and Tianming should have lived in the mini-universe for a little while. The door could be set to alert them when the others come out of their light-speed travel, and since time seems to flow very differently in the mini-universe they could probably get back together after only a year or maybe even less.
Anyway. I get the point of the ending and why the author chose to do it this way, but it still felt very avoidable and I'm slightly disappointed in it because in the rest of the series, consequences of actions were so well thought out.
Thus ends the rant.
This was the best book in the series. I found it the most "entertaining" and kept me reading it without a break.
What an epic conclusion to a great scifi series!
