Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy
This omnibus collects the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End.
The story opens during China's Cultural Revolution, when astrophysicist Ye Wenjie makes a choice that will determine humanity's first contact with an alien civilization. Decades later, as the scale of that contact becomes clear, the series follows a widening cast of scientists, strategists, and ordinary people forced to reckon with an invasion fleet centuries from arrival, a universe governed by a chilling logic of survival, and the very long odds of Earth's endurance.
Across the three novels, Liu builds outward from a single act of desperation to a story spanning centuries and, eventually, the fate of the universe itself — grounded throughout in hard science and China's twentieth-century history.
Astronomer-sociologist chosen, for reasons unknown to him, as one of four Wallfacers granted sweeping authority to plan Earth's defense in total secrecy (The Dark Forest).
Aerospace engineer whose long hibernations place her, more than once, at the center of decisions that determine humanity's fate (Death's End).
This edition collects all three novels of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy in reading order: The Three-Body Problem (2008), The Dark Forest (2008), and Death's End (2010).
Ken Liu translated The Three-Body Problem and Death's End; Joel Martinsen translated The Dark Forest.
