Death's End (Three Body Problem) by Cixin Liu

Book: Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3)

Notes

• Yun Tianming & Cheng Xin. Former buys latter a star.
• Yun Tianming’s Brain sent into space as part of Space Ladder project
• Deterrence depends on participants ability to risk their own subsistence. If they can’t then deterrence won’t work.
• Transition to new swordholder (successor to Wallfacer) anticipated by Trisolarans and destroy Dark Forest deterrence mechanism
• Genocide
• 4th dimensional spacetime portal
• Deep Space and Gravity escape droplet attack
• Three stories by Yun Tianming help find antidote to Dark Forest attacks (Black Domain) and light speed travel
• Bunker projects
• Thomas Wade’s proposal & Cheng Xin’s stance
• Piece of paper - two dimensional spacetime - eats up solar system
• Cheng Xin & Ai AA escape in lightspeed capable weapon
• The fragility of human memory that I kept feeling through the second part The Dark Forest was here too. There was a fickleness here, too, as well as humanity’s deeply felt desire for justice. I sense confirmation bias - because I read an article about people who play by rules even when they don’t need to. I don’t even recall what article that was and if it’s indeed true - and I sense a confirmation bias creeping in, but I’ve definitely felt that in my own behavior - not wanting to be judged by others. Humanity as described in the trilogy has this same issue.

“Rules” of the game - Morality - Fear of being judged - plays into God & religion - Peer pressure