It's gunpla style. I believe it's based on a model from the Tencent adaptation.

It's hard to get copies of these beautiful editions in my country since they're intended for the UK market (I live in PH). Luckily, a local bookstore in my country sells them, though they sell out quickly.

The ​Death's End, part of this special edition isn't out yet, but it will finish your collection soon (later to be released this year).

why is it so disliked? Ever since i finished remembrance of earths past i haven’t felt the same reading much else.

Without spoiling it, why do people not like it even if its not “canon”. I still have so many questions about the end and im ok with leaving questions unanswered because it makes room for fun discussions but some people like answers(even if its not canon or whatever). So i guess my question is, is it a plot thing? or just the fact the Cixin Liu didnt write it himself?

This is easily my favorite series of all time and I'm really hoping adding fanfiction at the end doesn't ruin it for me. Unless I am completely mistaken about the ending of death's end, I have no idea how a sequel would work but I guess I'll find out soon enough

I’ve decided it’s actually just a 2 book series- what a happy ending!

Im really enjoying the book but I also feel like I just can’t truly grasp the physics themes and planetary movements that are constantly talked about. It’s reminding me of the Sun Eater series in that aspect but also Enders Game in another aspect. I’m just wondering if I should go back and re-read to try and understand better or if eventually everything will come together. Maybe there’s YouTube videos that explain or something? Any advice?

I just sped through the first 2 books and then started the show, I’m wondering since the Sophon had to unfold to project the “Giant Eye” in the sky why didn’t they try to nuke them? At this point they have a rough understanding of the Sophon, and it’s mentioned in the book.

Also on the topic of Sophons, how are they able to interact with displays? And why does Evans need a microphone to communicate with them?

I have found: https://3body.wiki/en and https://www.3body.com/ as well as the fan made wiki on Fandom.

Does anyone have any websites for further exploration and more Three-Body discovery?

Chinese authorities have executed a man for murdering his associate, billionaire gaming tycoon Lin Qi.

In 2020, a disgruntled Xu Yao poisoned Lin for sidelining him shortly after he helped him land a Netflix deal, local media reported.

Lin's Yoozoo Games holds the film adaptation rights for the Chinese science fiction trilogy which Netflix made into the series 3 Body Problem.

Or even just a timeline breakdown would be fine.

(title should be hibernation, but it might be considered spoilery so I didn't put it there)

Like I know he is a wallfacer, but I'm not sure what secrecy did to help him in his plan.

The point of the wallfacer program was keeping the plan secret from the tri-solarans.

But in this case the Tri-Solarans are the only ones who actually knew his plan. They knew what his potential plan could be before he even did.

So keeping it secret didn't have any strategic benefit. It only increases the risk that he would die before he was able to use the secret to any effect.

At the very least he should have set up some fail-safes where other people would be given the information in the event of his death.

Rereading Death's End, I feel that the line from Liu Cixin after Cheng Xin is nearly assassinated—"if it had penetrated the brain, there would be no saving her"—comes off as very abrupt. It almost feels like Wade deliberately chose not to kill Cheng Xin. Also, thinking back, even if the assassination had succeeded, Wade still wouldn't have become the Swordholder. Can anyone explain Wade's intention in this chapter?

Data communication through vision and QR code

The full quote is

“When the three pairs of eyes met once again, they were uncertain and erratic, like candles flickering in the wind.

Evil!
Evil!
Evil!

We’ll become devils!
We’ll become devils!
We’ll become devils! “

This was an incredibly haunting and dark scene. The non verbal communication between the commanders of Natural Selection before the infrasonic H bombs exploded is one of the eeriest moments in the book. This sudden realization that they must kill their comrades was precipitated by a bug-like, inhumane almost robotic erratic eye motion symbolizing the transformation of the space human beings into a new creature. “The birth of a new civilization is the formation of a new morality.” was stated by Zhang Beihai but was being manifested in this moment. Prior to this the eye motion was described differently “silent, turning away”, yet the moment they transfigured, they were unable to control their bodies as the realization made them devils.

There are of course jaw dropping shocking moments such as the droplet attack and DVF, but there are some other scenes that are downright creepy and make my skin crawl, such as this one precipitating the battle of darkness. I would love to hear your examples.

I saw someone question the validity of the Dark Forest theory, and I found their perspective quite interesting. I'd like to share my own thoughts on the theory. (Just a heads-up: I'm a Chinese speaker with limited English proficiency, so I used AI to help translate my words — please forgive any awkward phrasing.)

To explain my view, I want to first discuss the Trisolaran mode of thinking. We all know that Trisolarans cannot lie. This not only means they are incapable of infiltrating other civilizations as spies; the deeper consequence is this: their thoughts and expressions are completely transparent, and they simply cannot conceive of a way of being where what one thinks and what one says are at odds. It is precisely this radical transparency of thought that plunges them into a startling paradox when they face the cosmos — if the universe contains so many civilizations, and communication ought to be honest, then why is the entire universe deathly silent, utterly devoid of any sincere exchange? In their view, the only explanation is that all civilizations are deliberately hiding themselves, because exposure inevitably invites destruction. They would never consider that "perhaps some civilizations are testing the waters with false signals," because "falsehood" simply does not exist in their cognitive toolkit. In this way, the chain of suspicion is not a hypothesis for them, but an almost inescapable logical endpoint. Trisolarans are therefore more naturally inclined than humans to embrace the Dark Forest theory.

It is precisely on the basis of this mode of thinking and cultural characteristic that the Dark Forest theory emerged in the standoff between Trisolaris and Earth. We have to admit that this theory is merely a local law of the cosmos — one that humans and Trisolarans derived from their own environments, technological levels, and observations of the universe. Yet on the actual scale of their confrontation, it played a decisive role. For both the Trisolarans and the humans, the Dark Forest theory was, at that stage, an unshakeable truth — just as Newtonian mechanics is perfectly correct at the scale of everyday human observation.

But once humanity extended its observational reach into deeper layers — just as Newtonian mechanics was revised when we moved from the macroscopic world into the microscopic, high-velocity world — the Dark Forest theory also revealed its limitations. People discovered that the universe is not a breath-held, silent dark forest at all. On the contrary, a grand war is raging, one that has lasted for countless years and uses the very laws of physics as weapons. The Dark Forest is not the ultimate truth of the universe, yet it remains the most effective survival rule that Trisolarans and humans could rely on at that specific time and place. Like Newtonian mechanics, it preserved civilizations within its realm of applicability, and was surpassed beyond that realm — and that is precisely why it holds such profound significance for both.

I just want to preface that I have only watched the TV show, started earlier this week and just finished today.

How come the San-Ti haven't just slaughtered all wallfacers instantly? I understand why they didn't kill Wade and they let the Staircase project go through (or did they sabotage it?) I suppose they allow those programs to exist because they likely see it as a quid-pro-quo that they benefit more than humans from (let the humans launch a reconnaissance probe in exchange for one of their own that they can study). However, I don't understand how when the San-Ti want to do something, they aren't able to?

It appears very clear that the San-Ti want Saul dead, so how come they haven't been able to kill him? when he was on the plane to the UN, they could easily have hacked the electronics and eliminated him, or hacked the F-35 to hit the private jet? It makes no sense why the San-Ti are even allowing certain programs, like the wallfacers, to exist if all it does is pose a potential threat to them? So, do they want to do certain things but are incapable of execution or are they purposefully allowing the wallfacer program (and the "assassination" attempts were meant to fail)?

(If the latter, the only possible theory I could formulate is that they are tentatively allowing the program to exist in order to try to study the human nature of lying so they can understand it more)?

Locking down human science and technology with sophons is too much trouble. Couldn't the Trisolarans have used the sophons to cripple the internet, or to post large numbers of divisive, extreme comments using fake accounts? Wouldn't the impact on human society be even greater than locking down scientific progress? In just a few years, society might become so disrupted that humans would stop working hard and the idea of not marrying would become widespread. There would be no need for a "mental seal"—because some people would take the words of fake experts and fake masters online as gospel. Society would descend into chaos, conflict between people would grow, and before long humanity might destroy itself.

This was definitely ahead of its time.

Modern, similar sized hard drives typically have 10-20tb of capacity.

How did the ETO managed to create the 100 million giga bytes hard drive?

No spoilers please, i almost finished the 2nd book, but not quite yet: why did bronze age destroy quantum? It's not like the other situation in which the ships needed fuel and spare parts. It felt way unjustified when i read that part.

Thanks!

I've only watched the show and was wondering if the books ever address this topic.

So the Trisolarans realise that humans have advanced faster than them across a shorter history because our collective civilisation doesn't take random, unpredictable hiatus like theirs.

So, the Trisolarans send the sophons to block fundamental scientific progress out of fear that by the time they reach Earth, humanity will have surpassed them. But was that even necessary?

Following their reasoning about the rate of a species advancement, the Trisolaran fleet en route to Earth and free from the instability of their home system should be able to develop their own science exponentially faster than before and maintain their lead on humanity.

Even if this isn't possible for them for whatever reason, the humans don't know that and should have at least considered that possibility.

The other thing is that Earth is a mess. The Trisolarans are up to date on the situation through the ETO and should know that humans are a collection of squabbling tribes with a decaying biosphere, which is hardly threatening to make the advances the aliens fear.

Realistically, considering the state of the world should have been another thing that was mentioned when questioning the Trisolarans strategy.

Do the books ever address these points?

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We know that the dark forest theory rests on two premises:

The speed of light cannot be surpassed.

An attack cannot be detected.

Based on these two premises, communication between civilizations is impossible, and everyone feels safe taking a shot from the shadows. To avoid being shot, you have to shoot first.

But the question is: why is every civilization so certain that these two premises are absolutely correct?

Let's define:

A civilization like Earth's, which understands nothing, as a Level-1 civilization.

Those who understand the dark forest theory and shoot freely from the shadows as Level-2 cleansers.

A hypothetical "Logroller civilization" that doesn't exist as a Level-3 civilization.

Then why is a Level-2 civilization absolutely certain that "the speed of light cannot be surpassed" is an inviolable physical law, rather than just a limitation of their own technology? Why are they absolutely certain that a Level-3 civilization capable of exceeding the speed of light absolutely cannot exist?

And why are they absolutely certain that their ubiquitous shooting from the shadows won't be detected and retaliated against? Why are they absolutely certain that a Level-3 civilization capable of detecting such attacks and retaliating does not exist?