The Three Body Problem: Death's End, by Cixin Liu, Book 3 of 3

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Uncover the profound complexities of "Death's End," the final chapter in Cixin Liu's celebrated trilogy. This summary delves into the astonishing universe Liu constructs, tackling ultimate questions about the future of human existence and the mysteries of the cosmos. From staggering multidimensional battles to revelations that redefine reality, "Death's End" offers a breathtaking closure to the saga.
This is Book 3 of 3, the last book of the trilogy, contains some spoilers for the series.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Common Era
02:09 - Crisis Era
04:50 - Deterrence Era
07:54 - Broadcast Era
09:37 - Bunker Era
12:54 - Galaxy Era
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@TheOrbitalArray 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening, like & subscribe for other sci-fi series!

@netyoons 19 күн бұрын

Trust me, the books is so far good and have the wow effect than the series

@vonraunheim Ай бұрын

To sum it up: That escalated quickly

@chuckb.9507 Ай бұрын

All of these chain of events of death and destruction was caused by a single woman responding to a transmission because she was upset about her situation and death of her father. Ffs

@ahtionpatrice5765 Ай бұрын

A bit like how eve is tempted by the serpent first and then deceit adam in turn.

@NineOneOneFx Ай бұрын

Yeap! Might go down as the greatest Butterfly effect example of all time! 😂

@MsThangz Ай бұрын

Yeah but why is that any less legit of a reason than anything else? It was going to happen eventually no matter what. Would it be better if it was because of an ambitious politician or a greedy billionaire with more grandiose reasons? One person upset at the injustice of political violence seems fitting to me.

@efstratiosanagnostopoulos6636 23 күн бұрын

In the vastness of time, the same would have happened. Maybe a little later. Maybe by someone else. And we may not have been so lucky to have the Trisolarans pick up our signals, or maybe the Trisolarans would be much more advanced...

@stedyedy23 13 күн бұрын

She annoyed me as well but if it wasn't her someone else would have eventually done the same, humans are curious

@drawnhere Ай бұрын

Here because of the Netflix adaptation. I couldn't wait until the second and third books were adapted. I had to know what happened.😊

@parvinderanoop5826 Ай бұрын

Same here. Lol. Who knows if Netflix will renew it for the second season or cancel the series

@monizakkour6466 Ай бұрын

Me too, we are entangled lol, is it the complete book? Amazing job

@Slingsandstones Ай бұрын

Same here!😅

@jobturkey7418 Ай бұрын

It’s such a good show. That’s crazy if they don’t renew

@Blimbus-Blombo Ай бұрын

Same! I can’t wait 3 years for them to adapt the story completely! Plus I’m intrigued in what the original story tells!!

@robjohnston1433 Ай бұрын

Gosh ... it's strange for Sci-Fi to have such a downbeat ending! Still ... VERY enjoyable and MUCH more thought provoking than 99% of other speculative fiction!!!

@tanimal3964 5 ай бұрын

Wade was the hero mankind needed.

@christinearmington 3 ай бұрын

All roads, all choices lead to death. 💀

@taotzu1339 Ай бұрын

It's not surprising that a white man saves the human race, again. LOL

@MonaeJohnson 11 күн бұрын

He could've saved humanity so many times if they'd only listened to him.

@Nitrus17 5 ай бұрын

bloody hell that was sad at the end.

@jxmai7687 3 ай бұрын

Ture, it was so sad when you were reading every word in the book slowly.

@randomman1050 3 ай бұрын

@@jxmai7687 Life left as a mesage in a bottle, a fight yet to happen again. and again. and......

@jackieclan815 Ай бұрын

@randomman1050 maybe they will learn from the events of the past

@jcooloti 5 ай бұрын

I liked this book… but Chen makes bad decision after bad decision and fails at every turn which was pretty grueling… it’s a very depressing story on many levels. The hardest part was when her boy triggers the death lines and they fast forward through time and she has to live out the rest of her days with a stranger and a genocidal robot that now wants to be their slave because everything is completely fucked and nothing really matters anymore.

@bezideiko 4 ай бұрын

maybe this is reference to the real life, when you hardly get exactly the things that you want.

@Kingbimmy 2 ай бұрын

Cheng Xin makes decisions based on what she thought was morally best for the greater good of humanity, but those choices aren’t always actually the best. That’s her whole character. She’s trying her best to be selfless, but to a point where it’s her downfall. The death lines being triggered and 18 million years passing broke my fucking heart. She was a good person who poorly executed decisions she had to make. :( I genuinely cried through the last like 8 or whatever pages 💔

@nemosotillo Ай бұрын

Such is live.

@maruf7956 2 күн бұрын

Women 🍵

@isaacchiang7543 6 ай бұрын

thank you for posting these series, it is the best summary videos I've ever seen about the trilogy. But I think it's still worth telling the story in more detail way because it is so profound and extensive. What's more the music is also great and appropriate.

@TheOrbitalArray 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback

@ugoeze7360 2 ай бұрын

Booooooo this video is literally ChatGPT reading the Wikipedia article.

@sharongillesp Ай бұрын

@@ugoeze7360 So, you’re going to ignore the graphics and music selections that made it come alive??

@ThanhTran-ji3fm Ай бұрын

@@sharongillesp they are also AI generated

@mattslade1633 6 ай бұрын

Excellent timing. Only found and subbed yesterday was wondering when this would be out and, bang! Top of feed straight in from work today. Thanks for doing these, the books were epic.

@TheOrbitalArray 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for subbing!

@hattorihonzo5804 2 ай бұрын

This was gooooood omg the ending was heart breaking but at the same time mind boggling. The cycle of universes life and death and a race that can destroy entire systems.

@sampoole-fg1sl 4 ай бұрын

Beautifully told.

@Crob3621 3 ай бұрын

This has really helped me recap the books to better understand after reading it… I highly recommend doing both to everyone!

@ugoeze7360 2 ай бұрын

Booooooo this is literally ChatGPT reading the Wikipedia article.

@marijkevissers8023 6 күн бұрын

The books are great, the first one so amazing, than the 2e, mindblowing, and the 3e, not good but supergood, the end gives a twist that only in Hindu filosofie was once told and written! Well done mr. L👍

@klaymoon1 24 күн бұрын

The series should have ended with book #2.

@NymeriaDT Ай бұрын

I watched your three-part breakdown and thank you so much for making it clear. I had dnf'ed the first book because it was such a slog to get through. I watched the Netflix series in one sitting which made it a lot clearer visually for me. But I had to know how it all ended and found your series. If the show makes it as clear and concise as you have explained it then it will be a hit. Thank you for this breakdown.

@oblockent9699 Ай бұрын

Welp after a night of binging this is exactly where I expected it to end lol

@astridfariasm.7859 Ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

@TheSoy1313 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing books

@Haydenthemaker1000 Ай бұрын

Amazing vid

@irkurniadi Ай бұрын

Well, I can sleep peacefully now with this ending. Thank you!

@lynahiacampbell8232 Ай бұрын

This was fascinating 😮😮😮 but I’m terrified ! What if this really happens and people who think of these kind of stories is who we need to study !!

@stussymishka Ай бұрын

This was awesome. looks like it was created with AI but does a great job summarizing the story. Could have spent more time describing the dual vector foil destroying the solar system though that was the scariest part of the book imo.

@genesis14000 Ай бұрын

You deserve a subscribe!

@ferjo3192 Ай бұрын

Many of the ideas of the book went past my low IQ so I have to watch some explainers like this one, I still dont understand much of it but now I have better appreciation of the books which I read in a hurry because I have video games to play. Thank you, subscribed!

@taotzu1339 Ай бұрын

This story reminds me of 2 stories I've read: 1) The Marvel Comics story line titled, Marvel Universe: The End (2003) and 2) Asimov's short story: The Last Question. Both are great stories.

@windupbirdpictures 6 ай бұрын

The book started well but just feel like Liu didn't quite know how to end it. Love the idea of 10 dimensions being the default state of the universe and the returners trying to get things back to default. The 2 dimensionalisation super weapon was terrifying. My least favourite from the series. There so much more from this that could be explored for sure.

@Akkadbakkad1 Ай бұрын

Gave me goose bumps

@lynahiacampbell8232 Ай бұрын

I need to read these books

@rickjames5998 3 күн бұрын

why was Cheng Xin allowed to hibernate if the "stair case" project like failed, basically. Like what purpose does she have for future people?

@adityajoshi185 6 ай бұрын

Dammm the series was epic but make it longer and cover everything the summary of the book includes

@sharongillesp Ай бұрын

Thanks for the excellent summary. Greatest video - ever! However, I’ve decided not to invest time waiting for Netflix’s adaptation and not to purchase any of the audiobooks. It’s like the story is a universal waste of time, resources and lives. There was no “trading “ of ideas” between planets - just the SAMO SAMO: war and destruction. As though we’re doomed to live dystopian lives/deaths. If I were extraterrestrial - I’d stay as far from Earth as possible.

@DLNOT Ай бұрын

0:00 - 0:06 Imagine hearing this excerpt but is read in Werner Herzog's voice (A big dream will be to see Werner Herzog cast in an upcoming future season of 3 Body Problem series)

@davekerzner Ай бұрын

This is almost verbatim what's on wikipedia. So, was this video copied there or the other way around? Either way it was enjoyable... except was hoping to get more details especially about the end. 18 million years pass? What's a pocket universe? How do you dismantle one?

@MonaeJohnson 11 күн бұрын

Honestly they didn't discuss in details what happens during the 18 millons years. It goes by so fast. To get every detail I recommend reading the book. That's the best you'd do.

@maxp.4987 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for the summary. I was on the fence on whether to read the trilogy but now I won't touch it with a 10 feet pole. Such a mess!

@NomNomRawr 2 ай бұрын

Ur a mess

@lynahiacampbell8232 Ай бұрын

Omg .. no ! Pls read

@likefire1617 6 ай бұрын

🔥

@MohitSingh-kk4fr Ай бұрын

I am not one of those ungrateful viewers who won't subscribe 😅 and like thank you so much for this

@rowdyinxs7546 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. Maybe turn down the background music, it's way to loud.

@chartingwithliv Ай бұрын

POV you’ve binged the Netflix adaptation, then watched every video on the books and have now reached the end 😂

@moreisallyouneed4175 6 ай бұрын

I have yet to read this series - but I find the concept so interesting - this kind of story telling reminds me of Asminov and Foundation except more dark and nightmare inducing haha

@likefire1617 6 ай бұрын

More like Clark's' childhoods end'

@moreisallyouneed4175 6 ай бұрын

@@likefire1617 I haven't read that. Putting it on the list. Isaac C. Clark right?

@andylane3739 6 ай бұрын

@@moreisallyouneed4175Arthur C Clark.

@raydavison4288 6 ай бұрын

Arthur C. Clark.

@raydavison4288 6 ай бұрын

It's definitely worth reading.

@tomking7039 Ай бұрын

At 8:05 wouldn’t it have not been a faraway galaxy because the trisolarans were part of the centauri system.

@JamesAllenMcCuneOops Ай бұрын

Honestly the 3rd alien beings who sent the 2 dimensional bomb, sound like 2 dimensional beings, themselves. The way they "throw it" to the solar system sounds specific

@YkevanLeeuwen Ай бұрын

the background audio is so loud, cannot hear what is being said

@zhenyab7142 Ай бұрын

I immediately loved the story when i heard there's actual books about it. But in staircase that is not how nuclear pulse propulsion works, I wonder if the auther never heard that there is real nuclear pulse propulsion and it doesn't work like that

@jamesday1295 Ай бұрын

Why doesn't it? Because there is another method of nuclear pulse propulsion like project orion. I think the author is more than aware, and you are taking a single proposition as the only proposition.

@adityajoshi185 6 ай бұрын

Now do the all tomorrows if u can just manage to get AI prints of the weirdness of the book

@Dave_of_Mordor 5 ай бұрын

ai prints?

@Kaister007 Ай бұрын

This is an exact summary from Wikipedia Summary of the Death's end...

@gosnooky Ай бұрын

So many inaccuracies, I wonder if they actually read the book or had ChatGPT explain it all. 1) 4:15 The Staircase probe didn't fail because of a navigation error, it failed because one of the support cables snapped causing it to drift off course 2) 5:30 Blue Space and Bronze Age didn't flee the solar system because of failed expeditions. Bronze Age fled during the Doomsday battle, and Blue Space was one of 4 ships sent to capture and return Natural Selection which was hijacked before the Doomsday battle. 3) 8:15 Yun Tianming was not just a "figure from Cheng Xin's past", but the subject whose brain was sent in the Staircase probe. The fact the narration didn't connect these two dots leads me to believe this entire narration was AI generated.

@lynahiacampbell8232 Ай бұрын

Do y’all ever think how far space goes ? And isn’t it weird that there is a way to freeze your body ! It’s pricey but there is a way with the hopes that in hundreds of years our science will be that advanced that we won’t die ! Isn’t that crazy to y’all 😢! I’m scared but I totally would do it if it means there’s a possibility that I could b awaken in future

@FatosNaoSaofeitos Ай бұрын

It's a very dark view of life.

@davidcottrell1308 2 ай бұрын

..it continues to go in a slightly different direction.....this is the MO of the author...always changing direction....it does feel like a bit of a trope by the end of the books....still, it is a good read...maybe not great...but certainly very good.

@JustMoviePlots 16 күн бұрын

As a trisolaran , I invite you to join us.

@frocurl 6 ай бұрын

The woman makes horrible choices compared to lu-oG

@windupbirdpictures 6 ай бұрын

Yh when she was woken from hyper sleep to make yet another horrible choice. They were all killed as a result if I recall. And she just went on about her life.

@frocurl 6 ай бұрын

@@windupbirdpictures exactly in the book luogi even acknowledges her massive mistake of hiding light speed technology but yet she hypocritically is the sole ship that successfully escapes the 2d attack and then gets to live in her own dimension with her man and robot sufon or whatever. She really sours the entire book for me. It should of been luogi who left her and AZ or wutevers butts on Pluto

@christinearmington 3 ай бұрын

But Luo ji was accused of mundicide having destroyed an unexplored solar system as his contribution to the Wall Facer program. Ultimately, whether the choices are from love or aggression, the lighthouse drawing all closer is death. 💀

@Kingbimmy 2 ай бұрын

@@frocurlyeah but she didn’t know the ship had light speed until Lou Ji told her and AA. And it wasn’t her man, “her man” is supposed to be Yun Tianming. She ended up with Yifan, who AA had immediately developed a crush on 😭 they got swapped

@SushmaVivek-xq4nv 16 күн бұрын

First 2 books were good... 3rd seemed in haste

@davids2cents594 Ай бұрын

glad i watched this now i will not need to watch if they do more seasons. its all a waist of time in the end lots of people are going to think wtf i just waisted my time on the show where everything just ends

@shaddouida3447 Ай бұрын

3 Body Problem Season 2 Update 3 Body Problem Season 3 Update

@genevievebe303 19 күн бұрын

Man, that music is sure loud..

@thejecs8 Ай бұрын

I guess death is the only certain about life.

@ngockhanh2467 Ай бұрын

If you okayed the Halo series. Very similar indeed

@youtubehandol Ай бұрын

but the terrarium will irrevocably end up in a star, not a planet...

@ThiNguyen-bj7tz 8 күн бұрын

Dear narrator, I honestly think that you ruin the incredible atmosphere and mood of the story when you interject your own personal commentaries into the narrative, such as when you said "MAD" @ 5:06. Which is a real shame because your incredible voice and storytelling prowess truly made this video shine. 😞

@ugoeze7360 2 ай бұрын

Booooooo this is literally ChatGPT reading the Wikipedia article.

@lynahiacampbell8232 Ай бұрын

Ok so book 3 is exactly like the Netflix story 🙌🏼

@summerwatson3416 5 ай бұрын

This is all AI generated right?

@Tulenoslav 2 ай бұрын

The generic music is so loud I barely hear the narrator

@Moeflyer6213 6 ай бұрын

Hard time creates strong man, strong man creates good time, good time creates weak man, weak man creates hard time.

@TheOrbitalArray 6 ай бұрын

All of these have happened before and will happen again. Bonus point if you know where that is from :D

@Moeflyer6213 6 ай бұрын

@@TheOrbitalArray The title from a book written by Stefan Aarnio. And "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" also is the gist of that novel. That proverb is come from Henry G. Bohn's A Handbook of Proverbs.

@Mekazoic 6 ай бұрын

@@Moeflyer6213is seeking a hard man for good times

@flmak218 Ай бұрын

depressing end

@neotheseattledj Ай бұрын

This is the worst book of the series. The protagonist is a terrible person that has no real character arc and doesn't grow to learn any lessons. Everything she is able to do in the book is because people keep giving her valuable gifts and important jobs that she immediately screws up with. everyone insists she is a good person but she lets aliens take over earth her first 15minutes on the job and later on gets 99% of humanity killed before running to a safe space at the end of the universe where she ponders responsibility while robot servants take care of her until the end of time.

@ForageGardener Ай бұрын

Its pronounce tsi-shin not sixin 😂

@ForageGardener Ай бұрын

Or see-shin is another easy pronunciation.

@user-wn5ev1dx4f 2 ай бұрын

Ok cool well we slept for 18 million years so we will get rid of this pocket universe in 40 years

@ae364 Ай бұрын

Yikes! That writer really wrote himself into a 10 dimensional corner. 😅 almost as bad as the ending of Dune.

@abraham3115 Ай бұрын

Is it all the explaination comes from wikipedia? 😂😂😂😂

@winwinmilieudefensie7757 19 күн бұрын

The music is anoying and too loud overbearing

@NomNomRawr 2 ай бұрын

U lack imagination

@jerk1921 3 ай бұрын

Again, right off the bat, the writer proves that he does not understand science. We are in a 4 dimensional universe, its not 3... He starts from the wrong place, 3. Then just assigns a higher number to a thing then grants that thing whatever magical powers he wants for the book. "Oh, here is a 6 or 11 dimensional device/entity. That means it can do (fill in blank) wondrous ability that I made up for the book."

@NomNomRawr 2 ай бұрын

U lack imagination

@Kingbimmy 2 ай бұрын

Maybe it’s not strictly sci-fi, and has aspects of fantasy like the 4th dimension description, but it’s a fascinating and imaginative book. There’s an entire chunk of the book that is Yun Tianming telling the three fairytales, and those are fantasy, trying to secretly convey science to Cheng Xin. But they’re fantasy stories nonetheless. I loved the book!

@masonthunkwell9786 2 ай бұрын

The dimensionality stuff is based on parts of string theory, specifically M-theory I think. Which suggests a universe with 10 or 11 dimensions but its been a minute since I read about it. They use their brief contact with 4th dimensional space (which itself is just the dwindling remains of a universe de-dimensionalized by war) to jack around with the inside of 3 dimensional droplet and disable it. Like how you, from 3 dimensional space, can scribble all over any part of a 2 dimensional object. At least that's how it's framed in the books.

@Legola87 3 ай бұрын

so many errors .. lol

@Kingbimmy 2 ай бұрын

Where? I just finished the book, and I didn’t notice errors 😰 (I’m genuinely asking, not saying you’re wrong, I want to notice them if they’re there)

@harisablay7020 Ай бұрын

I'm just confused. Is the Gravity ship an enemy ship? or an earth based ship. And how did they went to that certain planet?@@Kingbimmy

@asant90 4 ай бұрын

Story has no character development and its all convoluted plus bad pace. The writer went off to ridiculous sci fi levels with this one but didn’t end up well

@thesimp-son 3 ай бұрын

Lol and that makes it perfect for me, it's a story of humanity as a whole. It's pace is excellent started slow and ended at the end of time. It's selfishness that will end humanity. That is perfectly captured in the book. I believe it is intentional that the book isn't about just one person like you.

@jxmai7687 3 ай бұрын

It could be fun if someone else rewrite the last book in different version.

@randomman1050 3 ай бұрын

@@jxmai7687 The acceptance of man that it must succumb to the innevitable not sitting well with you then.

@Kingbimmy 2 ай бұрын

Through all three books, most characters seemed to fall a little flat, but I feel like the main emphasis wasn’t on them, it was on the idea of all this crazy Dark Forest horror that existed, and led to the destruction of everything. It mirrors how destructive humanity is, to everything, including itself!

@nercoG 2 ай бұрын

🤢

@georgeburns7251 28 күн бұрын

So glad I didn’t waste my time reading the last book. Seems like crap.

@ATOMICO7 28 күн бұрын

Another meaningless story 😂 without proper plot and a proper ending. Are we trying to learn ascetism, science and entertainment together? Load of weird dilemma. Author should see a psychiatrist and touch some green grass. He should do some yoga to keep himself away from depression😂