Death's End

Cixin Liu

Sept 2016 · The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by P. J. Ochlan

About this audiobook

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!

Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America

PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”—Barack Obama • “Provocative.”—Slate • “A breakthrough book.”—George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”—GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”—NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”—The Washington Post

The New York Times bestselling conclusion to the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

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. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.

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

The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End

Other Books by Cixin Liu
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up the Sky
The Wandering Earth
A View from the Stars

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

Ratings and reviews

Amazing. I found this book suggested on reddit of all places. That suggestion started me down a path I now can't imagine my life without. This book made me think of everything differently. It took ideas and expanded them beyond my imagination and shrank them down into relatable characters. I love finishing a good book but always mourn the loss. The feeling has never been greater than with these 3 books. I'm left wanting more and considering the scope that's an unfair request. This story will travel with me for the rest of my life. I cannot say enough good things about it.

I was really hoping for more out of this series, but it's just a really long story with a beginning and a middle, and finishes with something that feels like the author just got sick of the project and needed to end it, as evidenced by the vast number of completely abandoned plot devices and dead ends, and the incredibly accelerated pace towards the last part of the final book. I hate to say this, but this series has been a big disappointment stretched out over an astronomical time scale.

despite this book's flaws I still couldn't put it down. so many things happen that this book could have been expanded into its own trilogy, and the pacing gives you little time to breathe between major events...but that also makes it exciting. the weakest of the trilogy but still a must read.

About the author

CIXIN LIU is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award, an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo), and a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award.

KEN LIU (translator) is a writer, lawyer, and computer programmer. His short story "The Paper Menagerie" was the first work of fiction ever to sweep the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. He has written two novels (The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms) and edited and translated the Chinese science fiction anthology Invisible Planets.