Ms. Hen reviews Death's End

 

Death's End

Cixin Liu

Tor Books 

2010

Translated by Ken Liu

Ms. Hen decided to read this because she wanted to finish the trilogy. She took her time reading all the books because they are dense and take a long time to read. Even so, she enjoyed them.

This novel is the third in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. In this book, the reader follows Cheng Xin through time as she hibernates and goes into the future.

A man who she knew in college, Yun Tianming, buys her a star, because he has some money, and he was dying. The stars are on sale as a type of joke, to see if anyone is foolish to purchase something they could never truly own.

Nobody knew at the time that would give great power to Cheng Xin in the future after she awakens from hibernation. She has great wealth, and is voted to be the Swordholder, the person in charge of the Earth's defense.

She does not succeed as the Swordholder. Instead, the Trisolarans demand that everyone on Earth relocate to Australia.

Cheng Xin becomes a pariah, but Earth recovers. Many events occur in this novel, and Ms. Hen does not want to reveal the whole thing.

This novel is romantic, but in a twisted way. It proposes the idea that love can conquer all, but the outcome is not what the Ms. Hen expected.

This trilogy is a depiction of what would happen if aliens came to Earth, and wanted to take over. In reality, they would not be the pleasant aliens we know like E.T. or Mr. Spock. They would be like the Trisolarans, and they would come to steal our resources and enslave humanity.

The ending of this novel is trippy and psychedelic, like 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. Ms. Hen doesn't know if she quite understands it, but it's about the end of the universe, and the beginning of a new one.

Ms. Hen believes these books are important, and will tell us a lot about humanity, and how it would be able to handle an alien invasion. She's excited to see the Netflix series, to see how the first book is depicted. Ms. Hen is a forward-looking hen, and she looks to the stars for her dreams.