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Cixin Liu

Death’s End begins with a flashback to the siege of Constantinople when a 4-dimensional fragment enters the Earth. A woman named Helena accidently enters the fragment (located at the top of a minaret), allowing her to manipulate 3-dimensional objects and appear to do magic. To get attention, she steals a golden chalice, which, with many other treasures, had been sealed into an extremely well secured treasure chamber, using massive stone blocks comparable to those used to build the pyramids, and the entrance sealed with a similarly sized boulder lashed to the walls with thick iron bars. Not only that, she was never seen, and accurately states that there would be some fresh grapes placed on top of the treasure pile. Upon hearing this, The emperor, Constantine XI, summons her, and orders Helena to prove her magic by taking the head of a Turkish prisoner by sundown; Helena brings back the brain of the prisoner without appearing there physically, and the corpse of the prisoner is found intact. Constantine then orders Helena to assassinate the Sultan Mehmed II. However, at that moment, the Earth leaves behind the 4-dimensional fragment, and Helena fails to perform her magic; she is then executed, and Constantinople falls the day after the night of the new moon.

The story then shifts to Yang Dong, just before her suicide. She asks a question to a man who has green glasses: What if life never occurred on Earth? A computer simulation results in an oxygenless, barren planet, and Green Glasses states that life is a force that, with time, can do many things; for example, a colony of ants could move a mountain, given time. Yang Dong thanks Green Glasses, and leaves, thinking about her discovery that her mother Ye Wenjie had communicated with Trisolaris, who occupied the Centauri star system, and Yang Dong is troubled by the question: "Is nature really natural?"

The main character of the story is Cheng Xin, a rocket scientist who enters hibernation in the Crisis Era and then is awakened repeatedly in different eras. Following the events of The Dark Forest, the Trisolarans are held at bay by the threat of broadcast by Luo Ji. Luo Ji’s post is that of the "Swordholder", the person who can threaten the two worlds by revealing the coordinates of Trisolaris and Earth. Following an election, Luo Ji's responsibilities are transferred to Cheng Xin, whom the Trisolarans knew would be unable to release the broadcast message. The Trisolarans destroy humankind's large space fleet, as well as the gravitational broadcast stations. One spaceship that escaped the destruction manages to transmit the location of Trisolaris, and eventually their home world is destroyed in a dark-forest attack. Humanity spends centuries preparing for a similar attack, only to be destroyed in an attack that collapses the space of the solar system into two dimensions. A few humans escape, including Cheng Xin, in light-speed spacecraft. With the assistance of a Trisolaran robot, they are able to enter another universe, only to return to the original universe.

Traductor Ken Liu
Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2016
Editorial Tor Books
Categoría Ciencia Ficción


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