The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel
by Baoshu
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Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu's multi-award-winning science fiction saga. This original story by Baoshu--published with Liu's support--envisions the aftermath of the conflict between humanity and the extraterrestrial Trisolarans.
In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction.
Granted a healthy clone body by the Trisolarans, Yun has spent his very long life in exile as a traitor to the human race. Nearing the end of his existence at last, he suddenly receives another reprieve--and another regeneration. A consciousness calling itself The Spirit has recruited him to wage battle against an entity that threatens the existence of the entire universe. But Yun refuses to be a pawn again and makes his own plans to save humanity's future...
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781250306005
- Binding
- Paperback
- Authors
- Baoshu
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Published Date
- August 4, 2020
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 288
- Physical Info
- 9 in L x 6.1 in W (0.7 lb)
i dont understand how this book ended up happening or why Cixin Liu decided to make it canon. i have suspicions. most notable being GRRM's apparent response to working with Benioff and Weiss; its not hard to imagine Liu reaching a point where he was grateful for someone to wrap a bow on everything and let him walk away from the entire project for good. and i say this as a fan of the netflix series, and an absolute stark raving disciple of the trilogy of books, which i consider peerless. but this one? its almost twee at times. it feels like a joke that went too far, an opportunistic spinoff that relies on something like a comic book style mythology expressed almost entirely as a series of conversations describing past events. absolutely zero subtlety, zero nuance. the questions answered should have had different answers. it didnt diminish the main content by any means but only because it was impossible to somehow graft it into the world CL created. that said... i remain deeply concerned that its existence has somehow robbed us of a 4th actual book, which stings man. it stings.
The original books were good but then started to waiver off with this author into the arenas of fantasy. It begins to touch on verses from the Holy Bible seemingly incorporating them as a mocking of Christianity. Also this author obviously used veiled parts of the movie Avatar to describe some of his off world scenes. Flying and riding animals with tails through the floating mountains etc. It doesn't take much to recognize the acts of plagiarism in most Chinese works. The sad thing is the stealing of works from the West and then continue like it is something you have invented is an awful trait of the ccp. The communist party unfortunately is alive and well and continues to infiltrate the lives and culture of the Chinese people.
I really didn’t imagine that finale, but it was really good! Congrats. When a read that it wasn’t from the original author, I doubt about it, but then it grew on me
If you're into power fantasy exclusively told through conversations between 2 people, go for it. While I commend the quality of the story and the depth, the lack of stakes and wholesale dulling of past ones really doesn't cohesively fit within the framework of the original trilogy.
A well done final installment for the Three Body Problem series. It does fill in many of the gaps from the previous stories, and provides more insights into what some of the characters were experiencing at various points along the storyline. The scope or overall timeline is incredible, going extremely far into the unimaginable future.It does seem to require some suspension of belief to take in all the mind bending concepts: eternal beings that exist either forever or outside of time, high-dimensional universes, mini-universes, dimensional strikes: where one civilization attacks another by reducing the number of dimensions, and many more. Some of it seemed far-fetched which is why I didn’t give it 5 stars. It is, however, a good read and worth the time.
