Quick question. How would the wall facer project even work. How does someone coordinate their scientific discoveries or project plans with 0 communication? Love your videos by the way!

@@conorhealy2763 I think the idea is they tell people what to do next but never the whole plan

AYO QUINN. I love you man, thats all. Dont stop 💓💕 ineedya

@@conorhealy2763 Basically you only give out enough information for people to make the plan advance without explaining where that step fits in the plan. Basically security through obscurity. They also knew that it wasn't foolproof and that someone could put the pieces together hence having multiple wallfacers come up with their own separate plan.

@@conorhealy2763 It is an expansion on how military projects are already done to a degree. Someone working on part of a submarine for instance, will have just enough information to build the part they are building. They may be able to guess what the part next to thier part looks like, but they wont have enough information to figure out what the whole assembly of parts looks like. The people assembling those parts will have to have higher security clearance. So imagine the WallFacer is the ultimate security clearance level. Only they know how all of the various pieces will fit together. But they delegate tasks to different groups or industries that are either a part of the plan or a false path. Only the Wallfacer knows.

The mother holding her baby above her head as she is being sucked into 2-D space just to give it few extra seconds of life...

I had to put the book down for a bit at that point. Just….damn….

It’s also horrifying lol

The models we have of the solar system as 2 or 3 dimensional fail completely to convey the true shape of things.

So what happens to people when they become 2d? Is it literally death or such a horrendous inconceivable existence that we just wish it was??

So 2+2=4 because some old alien quarrels?

@@exginto8053 even crazier than that. Physical constants of the universe are manipulated by these aliens.

@@Snowsnaype so basically they could manipulate the law of physics that we knew? Damn I wonder when they would use time manipulation

@@ranggasaktibudiputra1547 Such manipulation results in local downgrading in the books. For example FTL travel results in no one, ever again, may reach that speed again on exactly the same route, the speed of light is slower where you passed. So if you let enough time pass, then the speed of light in the entire universe weill be lowered.

@@kazaddum2448 This is actually an underestimation of the scale of the universe. Even if such a thing were true, the universe is so bloody vast we'd barely notice a change before it was overtaken by entropy anyway. ;)

The idea behind Liu's concepts is even worse than that. It isnt that "good aliens" and "moral behavior" doesnt exist in the universe and that everyone is mmbad, but that "evil" behavior, the Dark Forest and the eventual self-inflicted heat death of the universe by weaponized physics is a statistic certainty. Even if a billion alien races are good and moral, it only takes one single paranoid one capable of super-science to end the prospects of a star-trek esque hippie galaxy of jolly cooperation. Due to the tyranny of distance and the iron-clad universal constant of light speed, any diplomatic outstretch to other races is unfeasible, which is why the only way to tell the universe that you arent a threat to others is to essentially live in a prison of lowered light speed that will be your race's tomb until the end of the universe. In real world terms, this is an obvious comparisson to the current world order where the UN and international law et al. exists, but the power-struggle between the nations over finite resources inevitably lead to the end of diplomacy. It isnt a if but when, until a peaceful order breaks down.

That is just the concept of life in general, consuming everything around it to grow itself, which coincidentally also includes life in its appetite.

He's just projecting the fucked state of China's society onto the cosmos. A human locust like him can only see things from a locust perspective.

It is a legitimately terrifying and plausible answer to the Fermi Paradox.

I feel disturbed a out that.

GET OUT

haha

Actually, you've on to something. The author did say there's a rush and high pressure to release the Death's End at the end of the writing and most of the works are done in rush without detailed. The ending is suppose to be a place-holder but the editor require him to meet the deadline and just publish it raw.

@@morrischen5777 Thats a bummer

There isn't much content that remains after that point. It's normal to feel that way. Have u read the 4th book in the series. It's quite nice actually

dude this is literally what happens if you accidently put legal paper in the printer set for standard paper

@@defeatSpace I did this when I was in the US. I’m use to using the normal international paper sizes A0 to A8, standard would be A4 (which is used internationally, except for in the US) and didn’t know wtf legal etc was. They asked me to refill the printer but the paper sizes looked off. So… I eyeballed it and thought it would be fine but it wasn’t and I fucked the printer up lmao

It's not especially terrifying. Something realistic, like global nuclear war, is way scarier to me.

The orion's arm universe has just about the end all be all of weapon technology. There's a weapon called a "Thunderbolt" that uses gravitational singularities to rearrange the topology of space-time in its future-pointed lightcone into a null geodesic. So, it essentially erases causality itself, making whatever you pointed it at simply cease to exist. The effect is essentially just "deleting the universe" wherever you point it. Not just the stuff in the universe either, it literally deletes space-time. Just causes existence to end, or never have been, more acurately. There's also a nice concept that involves creating a region of false vacuum that would actually have a lower ground energy state than the current universe's one. This region would expand at the speed of light, causing the quantum vacuum to decompose and fall into a lower energy state as it went. You would never even see the beyond appocalyptically rediculous blastfront of energy released as space-time itself underwent a phase state transition into this lower energy level, since the actual region of false vacuum would be expanding just as fast. You would be blasted into your consituent quarks by the ultra retarded explosion of space-time itself detonating at basically the exact same time as the reorganization of the quantum vacuum made them decay into whatever weirdo particles exist in the new continuum. And thus, the entire universe would be destroyed. Slowly, admittedly, but at the speed of light all the same.

I desperately wanted to know more about the mysterious 'Singers'

I read the first book, then quit. I have a low terror threshold.

I couldn't stand this third book, and the dismal, nihilistic view of the universe is the worst part of it for me. It must be incredibly tiresome to be as intelligent as he is and have such a view.

@@Guardian978 reflection of Mankind

@@Guardian978 I actually found the first book to be the hardest to read emotionally. Also, I EXPECT all aliens to be sociopathic towards alien species. I dont expect humans to be towards ourselves.

Facts. I can't get enough of Three Body Problem uploads

In fact, he says that using the dual vector foil is an "honor" because it shows that we have progressed enough to be a plausible threat to cosmic society. So the mass particle is the fly swatter but the dual vector foil is a whole can of Raid.

The irony is that they and all the other civilizations cause the universe to be destroyed through the casual use of these weapons and don't recognize their impact until the end of everything. Very much a parallel to climate change IMO.

Singer's "supervisor" also says the dual vector foil is one of the inexpensive ones, so he didn't have to think too much before approving it's use. Despite the title of the video, apparently there are way deadlier things that we will never get to know.

@@edumazieri Or perhaps the more expensive ones are less deadly.... More targetted weapons tend to be more expensive than general explosives. For instance if you wanted to destroy all traces of life in a system without destroying the star and planets. Or if you wanted to demolish only animal life and leave plants and bacterium.

@@patreekotime4578 Dual Vector Foil - _For those "fck everything in that general direction" moments_ ALL DIMENSIONAL SERVICE AGENTS *PLEASE NOTICE:* _All dimensional service agents MUST contact their supervisor for an approval prior to deployment of the DVF extermination system_

@Paul Ridgeway it's not the same because the bugs are killed when they are going to hurt us. We don't go around killing bugs for no reason, only when they pose a threat. If someone does that, they are morally in the wrong and it is discouraged. Humankind was attacked to simply be removed from the equation, to remove a potential threat which we probably would never have achieved. We were ants going about our own business but this kid decided to kick us and crush our ant hill simply bc he could.

@@stars-and-clouds bugs are killed all the time even when they don't pose any threat, animals are literaly murdered for their fur or tusks and brought to the verge of extenction because of it, entire forests are chopped down without a second thought and so on.this triology just shows us how it's like being on the receiving part of such carelesness towards life

Buddhist ethics shows killing bugs is discouraged..any being capable of suffering

@@Paul_Ridgeway yeah, because, as I said, then they become a threat to you. I don't kill a caterpillar on the street, only ones that might eat my tomatoes.

​@@stars-and-cloudsto be fair, the aliens think humans would do much worse than eat their tomatoes

Agree, I'm so glad he branched out to these other books & series. Because of the original ASOIAF & Dune, etc videos he put out, I knew his taste in literature would b similar to mine, & that he's a diligent reader, who has the capability of intelligently analyzing & interpreting the stories, & describing the books w/ simple, yet thorough & objective explanations. And without being critical of differing perspectives, bcuz he's an open-minded reader. I knew he'd open us up to a whole 'nutha level of new books to read! And so far I've loved almost all of them.

Yes

Yes! As someone with adhd i really suck at reading but find these stories so interesting so im glad to have found a way to enjoy the ideas.

I agree, I considered the Singer chapter my favorite in Death's End!

I haven’t read the series yet but I am extremely intrigued by the hiding gene concept…

@@xHarpyx in an universe where the dark forest is the rule, evolution would favours those beings that naturally hides best from other's life forms, keeping this concept natural selection would favours those that don't seek for contact, those who strikes first if they find another civilization, put this selective pressure, to hide, thru billions of years of evolution thru the universe and you'll get the idea that a gene for hide would eventually surge and be advantageous in many populations across the universe, at least on those that survived long enough. Sorry, my english is terrible, so I hope I got it clear

@@Lord-ym4rq oh no you’re fine. :-) I understand you perfectly. That’s what I was deducing from the base definition of the words. I’ve read all tomorrows several times and evolution is a chaotic and yet intriguing process.

it also mentioned abyss whale, matrix insect, and big balance bird

care to explain? cheers!

I think he means that 10 dimensional space has already been dimension bombed several times down to the 4th dimension (3d+time). The dimension bomb that destroyed the 10th dimension was fired by beings infinitely more advanced than us than we are compared to ants. This basically means that even the most advanced technology cannot escape the dark forest.

@@plaguedoctor03 the trisolarens had their droplets, the singers their dimension folders

@@launcherx2044 And the unknown "low-entropy entity" had mass dot/photoids.

@@Plex42 weren't those unknowns just Singer and his people

its made better for their caretaker is a copy of the Quantum Chiko computer with the Japanese lady's form (i read the novel in chinese so i dont know what she is called in english translation) which both had tormented humanity for centuries yet at the end of everything now are friends, in a brave new world marching to certain end together

@@sunso1991 The proton computers created by the Trisolarians? They're called Sophons

@@mentalcrash ah, in the novel the characters mentioned the word Sophon sounds like Japanese woman's name (Sophon is "intelligent particle" in Chinese, which is written the same way in Kanji as a Japanese female name "Tomoko")

@@sunso1991 a clever translation then. I was completely unaware they had a different name in the original untranslated Chinese.

If you had made that post on the fandom subreddit you would have been downvoted up to a lower dimension. They hate any slightest criticism about Cheng Xin.

Hopefully if the Netflix series turns out to be great, we'll have more people talking about this. But I'm not keeping my hopes up too much.

​@danielrodrigues4903 yea. Don't put much hope into Netflix. Ten cent did a Chinese series of it. It lasted 30 episodes and covered EVERYTHING in the first book. I doubt Netflix will bother with more than 8. No way it'll be remotely worthy to watch.

Now watch the dark forest episode on Isaac Arthur

Which just goes to show how fucked the universe is because what's left after one dimension?

That's what janitors do to bacteria every day

😂

You know what happens in these books is far worse than what we face right?

@@guisampaio2008 Yes of course, some of the best literature in history was written during extremely volatile times in history. I think for me, when we cant have resolutions in life and things feel abysmal, having a conclusion to a scifi or the reasons for events being explained etc, gives my mind an escape. In the the remembrance of earth's past series one of the charactes was considering the combined destructive power of humans. It was likened it to a lit candle combined to the destructive powers in space and how there was comfort in knowing that. (I think it was book 1, been a few months) The concepts also made me think about things differently. I love Quinn's content, he really captures my imagination with the abiance he creates and his re-tellings. It just puts me so far away from my troubles.

Amen

@@guisampaio2008 we all gonna die mate

Do it. Read the book. Collapse your brain into two dimensions. Become a part of the picture with the rest of us.

My brain collapsed into a singularity while reading the books, especially the last one. But box was it worth it.

It ain't that hard, gamer

The audio books are worthy. Didn't like the guy that read the first book but the other 3 were good. Same guy on those 3. I say audio book because my eyesight doesn't allow me to read small print anymore.

Yikes man

I do wish the author of Redemption of Time had explained the other weapons that the brain guy (forgetting his name, the dude sent in the StairCase project) had found out about during his time with the Tris. He mentioned 6, but only explained the dual vector foil as it was the most likely to be used. Something about universal constants being altered as weapons makes me wonder.

Jesus Christ lmao. Bro threw a credit card at us that collapsed our whole solar system while singing nonchalantly… I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised.

After years of playing gacha games I always knew credit cards are the most powerful weapon in the universe

If you think about it. While the foil does doom the entire universe, it doesn't work that fast. At most it works at light speed. Which can probably take hundreds of centuries, longer than it takes for a star to die before it affects anything close to its user. There are probably way worse stuff to mess with.

SAME

Exactly!!! 👍

This series deserves an audio book/drama with full fledged cast for each characters and astounding background sound. Lets see if AI can make this happen.

I don't know if you hear’d hey made a TV show of the books, you can watch it on UKposts.

@@rexsand1321 You mean the Netflix adaptation?

@@Fyre0tencent chinese version is well adapted to the book series

Very True!

haha, feel the same way. forget Thanos, she's the real destroyer of worlds.

@@javiervidal366 IMO a better translation for the name of the third book is 'the death God lives forever', which... Yeah, lol.

On the subreddit they don't tolerate any criticism or jokes about her Apparently, readers have no right to feel frustrated with her... Even though Cixin Liu has said that in fact he doesn't like her himself.

@@AnonymousAnonposterreddit is cancer where blue hairs wield fat schtick cyst levels of power over normal people whose view of their society becomes twisted by said bluehairs

all my homies hate cheng xin. She's literally the epitome of "ffs you had ONE job"

And what a masterpiece it was! Not only would I say its by far the most terrifying part so far, but I've never wanted to know how it unfolds more than now, can't wait for the next part!

I'm not sure if that's possible, if you mean that Quinn would make an audio book reading the books in their entirety, I would assume that he would have to get the permission and rights to do so, from whatever entity controls that, which would also necessarily mean negotiating a price and a contract for that.

I'm sure if he opted for it he could get permission to make an audiobook, but of course that wouldn't be up here on youtube, would have to pay for it

@@christopherweaver9543 I mean sure, he could do that, but when considering all the hassle required with it, and then whether it's ultimately worth it financially, I doubt that he'd want to go through with it.

I would pay for that as well! 👍

There are already official audiobooks of the series for sale, so I doubt the author or publishers would sign off on another version (especially a free fan reading on UKposts).

Whole planet? Dude read the book, it's the WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM, and since the effect never stops, sooner or later it would be the ENTIRE UNIVERSE

@@Dr._Atom They're referring to the event where Singer's race translated their homeworld and everyone in it into two dimensions to escape the effects of their dimension strike, not the dimension strike against our solar system.

Just because the Trisolarans had the ability to unfold the protons, doesn't mean they had the tech to create those "dual vector foils" at the time, and the means to deploy them. While the book doesn't get into any specifics what kind of tech level is required for that, we can kind of make some educated guesses that for a civilization to possess this ability, they would have to be VERY advanced and here's why. If we consider the two different ways to perform a dark forest strike, the photoid and the dimension strike, the photoid is much more simple in comparison, it's basically a "relativistic kill missile", maybe if you could get something like the droplet to lightspeed, that might do the trick, but it's just something that I throught of just now and the book doesn't tell anything in detail of what the photoid is, so this is just pure speculation on my part. Anyway, with a photoid the effect is limited only to the target solar system, no harm beyond that. Maybe it wouldn't have taken too long for the Trisolarans to be able to casually toss some photoids around, but during The Crisis Era, they only had the ability to accelerate protons to lightspeed. To be able to casually toss "paper slips", is an entirely different beast because even if you could create them, you sure as hell don't want to use them before you can ensure that your own civilization can escape and survive the effects of the dimensional collapse. In the book, when Singer asked for permission to toss the paper slip our way, he was surprised with how quickly he got the permission, and how little, if no opposition at all the Elder had with the request. It was implied that previously they weren't as casual with the use of the dual vector foils, and that prompted Singer to ask the question of whether their homeworld had transitioned into two dimensions. Now that they had, it's fair to assume that the use of dimensional strikes is going to be far less restricted as the primary goal of their civilization that is survival is ensured. Without the ability to transform yourself into two dimensional beings that can survive in a two dimensional universe, you don't go shooting around with weapons like the dual vector foil.

@@Nabekukka exactly How the dimenson fold affects humans for example? They get "crushed" and die? does everything affected by It becomes a 2 dimensional plane?

Well, not sure if crushed is the right word, maybe more like flattened to such a degree that you've just lost one of your dimensions, think of an infinitely thin "slip of paper" like the dual vector foil that was described in the book, you can see it from above and below, but if you try to view it directly from the side, you can't see it at all. Since humans are three dimensional beings, it's impossible to survive. And yes, it affects everything, even space itself will be "flattened" down to a two dimensional plane.

Basing survival on “luck” seems a poor prognosis regardless. The trisolarians escaped due to luck. Their fleet was far enough away to not be killed as the rest of their species was. The humans on Gravity and the other ship were lucky to be far enough away by the time the dual vector foil was unleashed. The main characters were lucky to be on a lightspeed capable ship. Cleansing would be far more productive than you imagine I think.

@antibull4869 each instant of luck has two sides though; one's good luck is another's bad. It would be just as lucky for the exterminator to strike JUST before an intelligence achieved lightspeed. A more sure model would be dark forest strikes long before intelligence arose at all. Why wait until the last minute?

I guess the thinking behind it is that the dark forest would claim these species somehow. Imagine leaving an orphan child in the jungle.

Well, as the singer said, humanity is an odd ball. the earthlings discovered how to make themselves known to the dark forest (being a star plucker), but not how to hide from it. I suppose most advanced civs would somehow hide themselves from the rest of the universe or not advance at all.

Singer is nothing but a bureaucrat. He does what he's told, regardless of whether it's right or successful. What's frustrating is how humanity in the books has been unable to act pragmatically and unselfishly, always pursuing any initiative of Escapism until it was too late.

There is a chapter where the crew of the escaping Blue Space come across the remnants of 4th dimension space and communicate with some AI left by its previous inhabitants and it was explained to them that what was left of the 4th dimension was mere puddles that was shrinking after the use of dimensional weapons. The humans from Blue Space being three dimensional beings can enter 4th dimension and interact with it somewhat because all the physical constants holding the matter of their bodies together still exist whereas a 4th dimension being cannot enter the third dimension without some of the physics they depend on to exist suddenly going missing. The in universe explanation is that higher dimension physics can only be destroyed, not brought back by alien technology, at least until everything collapses into a one dimension singularity where all the mass of the higher dimensions is unified and a big bang like event resets the universe with all of its dimensions.

I just think the likelihood of there being lots of intelligent species on many worlds that are also bipedal and be able to master fire is pretty low, and too many people are Anthropocentric about as to why we haven’t gotten messages from aliens yet.

Read the Killing Star. I believe it’s the vast distances that make the Dark Forrest theory believable to me. This story has earth and the invading Trisolarians being very chatty during the hostilities which is interesting from a story telling point of view. Once become an interstellar species, that’s when you sign your death warrant or put out a contract on your nieghbor. In most instances you can’t tell the difference between an invasion or a diplomatic mission as unknown engines are decelerating towards your solar system until it’s too late because the deceleration happened X amount of light months ago and well don’t look up I guess. So yeah it makes some sense.

For me the "dark forest" concept is one of the worst thought out of the various Fermi Paradox concepts. Its little more than projection of our own still generally limited and barbaric mentalities and neglects the vast near infinite universe we live in. At the point where a species has gotten to inter stellar, let alone intergalactic (or universal) travel they are almost certainly at or beyond "post-scarcity", you could really only benefit from peaceful dealing with other intelligent species as there is so much out there that you have ZERO reason to be territorial or conquest driven into already inhabited planets/system. It almost certainly conflicts with a few other of the Fermi Paradox concepts of self destruction because of your own hostile natures as you very well will have to get past that and work together as a species to reach out to other stars in any meaningful way, and again once you get to that point you are advanced enough that you should have gotten to a point where your own civilization understands there is no need for fighting each other over resources because they are not limited.

@@JohnA... I agree partly, but not because I’d ever expect spacefaring civilizations to necessarily cooperate, more like even if it was possible that many extraterrestrial species existed at once and had space travel in this Universe, why waste so many resources by collapsing entire Star systems like that? Like, none of our Systems will last forever, and life requires warmth and h2o. There is no reason whatsoever for every civilization out there to continue cutting off their nose to spite their faces, unless they had a death wish. At most I can get why the Trisolarians worked on an invasion, not so much about destroying hospitable Stars and 2D attacks.

If Sentinel island exists and that’s just some members of our own species, just imagine an entire Inter-star civilization or a galactic civilization…

i think reason singer decide to use dimensional weapon because it tought human will be lousy and will start galaxy war that potentialy accelerate the rate breaking dimension because some civilization have ability to use dimensional weapon. so its better kill human entirely and have more time to prepare

i don't think the dual vector foil expands with lightspeed. it took "8 to 10 days" for it to reach pluto, which is definitely not the speed of light

Makes you wonder about dark matter/energy and the great attractor 🤔 we've been looking some recently for evidence of mega and giga structures but what if we already have seen destruction caused by dimensional folding in unexplained mass and gravity wells

Children of Time? Not heard of this series. Just googled seems to be highly rated. Wonder if I should check it out.

@@rhysholdaway do it! Is really great. Quinn made a video about it.

@@holyfreak8 👌 will do. Loved the original trilogy and been keeping an eye out for more stuff by Liu Cixin.

Yeah I concur, Children of Time was a really fun read, same with the sequel and I'd expect the third book to match that. Adrian Tchaikovsky is a good writer, Shards of Earth and Eyes of the Void are pretty good as well. One more reading tip, check out To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini, I stumbled upon it while searching something new to listen to from Audible and noticed that it was narrated by Jennifer Hale. No regrets. Considering it's the authors first foray into scifi, he nailed it.

that said, Cheng Xin was one of the weakest characters ever in Science fiction, she always made irrational(womanly) decisions that imperrilled humanity further to "feel good" Wade was right.

Well, the humanity didn't survive it (at least all of it that didn't manage to flee). And that was actually the point, to wipe us out. The process of transforming yourself into a 2D being is implied to have to be a controlled one in order for you to survive. And the vector foil attack was just a flat out (pun intended) massacre.

​@@jirkap5023 Right, haha. I meant that it really _is_ a fool-proof way to take us out because such a conversion is simply not survivable. It's absolutely wild to think about a species being able to do a _controlled_ conversion to 2D that _is_ survivable, though. The way 2D life would have to work is just so fundamentally different to 3D life that it's difficult to imagine going down a dimension.

Remeber Superman 2 with Christopher Reeves where he sent the Kryptonians to the phantom zone? That's how I image compressing 3 dimensional beings happens.

I've done them thrice. Absolutely amazing works. Redemption of time is good though plays with the thoughts of angels, God and Lucifer.

I recommed reading the book first, it's a really wild ride.

They had the authority to conduct any action with almost every resource humanity has, even that some of such actions were intended to be fake/misleading to create chaos for observing trisolarans. The technological level of humanity was well known to them, but not the intentions of behind them. So the idea was not "create wonder weapon" but "surprise the enemy with what they already know humanity has".

@@phh2400 Also trying to engineer situations in which they are the sole person that needs to flip a switch to change the course/purpose of a project. Like with the psycho/ai conditioning project.

well duh, its a Sci-fi. science fiction. FICTION

@@vijaz5559 Oh is this the scifi version of "its fantasy, why are you complaining the mediel al army has Toyotas?" Because its fiction does not mean it should be stupid. If I read historical fiction, I reasonably dont expect dragons. This dimensional thing is stupid.

Similar feeling about the series. I think the disappointment comes from wanting humanity to succeed in terms of escaping the fate of so many other species that get "cleansed. If the other wall facer (can't remember his name, the guy that tried to kill her) had taken her place the trisolarans would've probably had to keep moving away from the solar system and maybe humanity would've made it to the end of the universe

"Arrogance and hubris are what will doom humanity, not weakness or ignorance."

There is a sense that Ching Xin was actually the collective will of humanity when she chose wrong in both situations, which I think is partially true. But in that case, she seems to reflect the worst character flaws in us humans. The previous two books were told from the viewpoint of a character who saw the situation from outside humanities struggle.

@@matthewlaplante9293 You're right. That was Wade Thomas. I know he was ruthless, treacherous and even villainous, but I thought he was probably the book's unsung hero by the time his story ended.

Cheng Xin was literally the dumbest broad in the history of scifi. She never faced any repercussion for her dumb mistakes. Look at how Luo Ji was treated when his magic spell wasn't working or when it seemed like he was wasting UN resources. She got everything handed to her on a platter, like the lightspeed ship only she and AA got to use. You'd think they could put that ship to better use by turning it into a generation ship. Cixin kept blabbering about Escapism then went on to make his heroine become an Escapist because she's oh so spwecial

Not to my knowledge, this may be just a mistake on his part or it may have been mentioned somewhere in Redemption of Time, not sure as I haven't read that book yet, mainly due to it being just "sanctioned" fan fiction made by a different author, and I'm not sure if it's going to work well with the original trilogy, for example in this video Quinn mentioned that according to Redemption of Time, Yun Tianming was the one who designed the droplet attack, or at least took some part in it, which to me at least immediately doesn't feel right, and I've seen some stuff that the book goes into too much detail of what the Trisolarans are like, without going into spoilers, turns them into a bit of a joke, and from what I've heard some people didn't really like what the author did with Singer and their race as well, so I think I'd like to stick with just the original trilogy. But again, not sure if that was just a slip on Quinn's part or if this is some Redemption of Time stuff.

@@Nabekukka It's fan fiction, so please treat it as such. Only Cixin Liu's own words or Q&A sessions can be taken as canon.

@@Nabekukka that's my take and only asked because I read the whole of Death's End on holiday a week back so it's reasonably fresh. Also, your comments on Redemption of Time have totally put me off of that book, thanks for sharing that as it would have spoiled the trilogy to a degree.