Death’s End

Liu Cixin

Translated by Ken Liu

Having read it

★★★☆☆

A few decent ideas drawn with imagination and wrapped in intriguing moments but to be honest, despite it having a steady pace it was just too long and seemed a bit like an exercise in putting together a sweeping arc to future history through a series of somewhat bureaucratic and dull reportage.

Maybe that was its point but its grandiosity didn’t make for a compelling read and frankly, it was not a patch on the first and second books of the Three-Body trilogy.

A good passage

By the time the builders of this monument truly understood the power of time, they no longer believed that a vanished civilization could really leave behind any marks that would last through geologic eons. As Luo Ji had said, this wasn’t a museum.

A museum was built for visitors; a tombstone was built for the builders.