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Liu Cixin's 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' to be Made Into 24-Part TV Series
The 24-part series is set to be named 'The Three-Body Problem,' after the trilogy’s first book, which won the Hugo Award back in 2015.
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. . . Lou Ji Came Over And Put His Hand On A Small Painting.

. . . Lou Ji came over and put his hand on a small painting.

“Would you leave this one for me?”

Cheng Xin and AA moved the painting aside and set it on top of a box next to the wall. They were surprised to see that it was the Mona Lisa.

Cheng Xin and AA continued to work at disassembling frames. AA whispered, “Clever old man. He kept the most expensive piece for himself.”

“I don’t think that’s the reason.”

“Maybe he once loved a girl named Mona Lisa?”

Lou Ji sat next to the Mona Lisa and caressed the ancient frame with one hand. He muttered, “I didn’t know you were here. Otherwise I could have come to see you often.”

Cheng Xin saw that he wasn’t looking at the painting. His eyes stared ahead as if looking into the depths of time. Cheng Xin saw that his ancient eyes were filled with tears, and she wasn’t sure if he was mistaken.

Inside the grand tomb under the surface of Pluto, lit by the dim lamps that could shine for a hundred thousand years, Mona Lisa’s smile seemed to appear and disappear. The smile had puzzled humankind for nearly nine centuries, and it looked even more mysterious and eerie now, as though it meant everything and nothing, like the approaching Death.

Death’s End (p. 512), Cixin Liu


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“Oh, Heavens! Starry Sky!” AA Cried Out.

“Oh, heavens! Starry Sky!” AA cried out.

Cheng Xin knew that she was referring to Van Gogh’s  painting. True, the universe really did look like the painting. The painting in her memory was almost a perfect copy of the two-dimensional Solar System before her eyes. Giant planets filled space, the areas of the planets seeming to exceed even the gaps between them. But the immensity of the planets did not give them any sense of substantiality. Rather, they looked like whirlpools in space-time. In the universe, every part of space flowed, churned, trembled between madness and horror like fiery flames that emitted only frost. The Sun and the planets and all substance and existence seemed to be only hallucinations produced by the turbulence of space-time. 

Cheng Xin now recalled the strange feeling she had experienced each time she had looked at Van Gogh’s painting. Everything else in the painting - the trees that seemed to be on fire, and the village and mountains at night - showed perspective and depth, but the starry sky above had no three-dimensionality at all, like a painting hanging in space. 

Because the starry night was two-dimensional.

How could Van Gogh have painted such a thing in 1889? Did he, having suffered a second breakdown, truly leap across five centuries and see the sight before them using only his spirit and delirious consciousness? Or, maybe it was the opposite: He had seen the future, and the sight of this Last Judgment had caused his breakdown and eventual suicide.

Death’s End (p. 529), Cixin Liu


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Well I've finally finished Death's End. That was the best book I've ever read in my entire life.


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She felt a pang of sorrow as she realized that Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman had both been dead for probably over two centuries.

Cixin Liu, Death’s End


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Read Selections From Cixin Liu’s Death’s End On Tor.com.

Read Selections from Cixin Liu’s Death’s End on Tor.com.


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Stephan Martinier’s Cover Art For The Tor Versions Of The Rememberance Of Earth’s Past (a.k.a. Three
Stephan Martinier’s Cover Art For The Tor Versions Of The Rememberance Of Earth’s Past (a.k.a. Three
Stephan Martinier’s Cover Art For The Tor Versions Of The Rememberance Of Earth’s Past (a.k.a. Three

Stephan Martinier’s cover art for the Tor versions of the Rememberance Of Earth’s Past (a.k.a. Three Body) trilogy by Liu Cixin.

[Top to bottom:  The Three-Body Problem; The Dark Forest; Death’s End.]


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