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Remembrance of Earth’s Past

The Three-Body Problem

Part I: Silent Spring

  1. The Madness Years
  2. Silent Spring
  3. Red Coast I

Part II: Three Body

  1. The Frontiers of Science
  2. A Game of Pool
  3. The Shooter and the Farmer
  4. Three Body: King Wen of Zhou and the Long Night
  5. Ye Wenjie
  6. The Universe Flickers
  7. Da Shi
  8. Three Body: Mozi and Fiery Flames
  9. Red Coast II
  10. Red Coast III
  11. Red Coast IV
  12. Three Body: Copernicus, Universal Football, and Tri-Solar Day
  13. The Three-Body Problem
  14. Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emperor, and Tri-Solar Syzygy
  15. Meet-up
  16. Three Body: Einstein, the Pendulum Monument, and the Great Rip
  17. Three Body: Expedition

Part III: Sunset for Humanity

  1. Rebels of Earth
  2. Red Coast V
  3. Red Coast VI
  4. Rebellion
  5. The Deaths of Lei Zhicheng and Yang Weining
  6. No One Repents
  7. Evans
  8. The Second Red Coast Base
  9. The Earth-Trisolaris Movement
  10. Two Protons
  11. Operation Guzheng
  12. Trisolaris: The Listener
  13. Trisolaris: Sophon
  14. Bugs
  15. The Ruins

Supplementary material

  1. List of Characters
  2. Author’s Postscript for the American Edition
  3. Translator’s Postscript
  4. Notes
  5. Copyright

The Dark Forest

  1. Prologue

Part I: The Wallfacers

  1. Year 3, Crisis Era

Part II: The Spell

  1. Year 8, Crisis Era
  2. Year 12, Crisis Era
  3. Year 20, Crisis Era

Part III: The Dark Forest

  1. Year 205, Crisis Era
  2. Year 208, Crisis Era
  3. Five Years Later

Supplementary material

  1. Dramatis Personae
  2. Copyright

Death’s End

  1. Excerpt from the Preface to A Past Outside of Time

Part I

  1. May 1453, C.E. The Death of the Magician
  2. Crisis Era, Year 1 The Option for Life
  3. Crisis Era, Year 4 Yun Tianming
  4. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Infantilism at the Start of the Crisis
  5. Crisis Era, Year 4 Yun Tianming
  6. Crisis Era, Years 1–4 Cheng Xin
  7. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Hibernation: Man Walks for the First Time Through Time
  8. Crisis Era, Years 1–4 Cheng Xin
  9. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time The Staircase Program
  10. Crisis Era, Years 1–4 Cheng Xin
  11. Crisis Era, Years 5–7 The Staircase Program

Part II

  1. Deterrence Era, Year 12 Bronze Age
  2. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Nyctohylophobia
  3. Deterrence Era, Year 12 Bronze Age
  4. Deterrence Era, Year 13 Trial
  5. Deterrence Era, Year 61 The Swordholder
  6. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time The Ghost of the Wallfacers: The Swordholder
  7. Deterrence Era, Year 61 The Swordholder
  8. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Cultural Reflection
  9. Deterrence Era, Year 61 The Swordholder
  10. Deterrence Era, Year 62 Gravity, in the Vicinity of the Oort Cloud
  11. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time More Indirect Evidence for the Dark Forest: Sophon-Blind Regions
  12. Deterrence Era, Year 62 Gravity, in the Vicinity of the Oort Cloud
  13. Deterrence Era, Year 62 November 28, 4:00 P.M. to 4:17 P.M.: Deterrence Center
  14. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time The Choice of the Swordholder: Ten Minutes Between Existence and Annihilation
  15. Deterrence Era, Year 62 November 28, 4:00 P.M. to 4:17 P.M.: Deterrence Center
  16. The Final Ten Minutes of the Deterrence Era, Year 62 November 28, 4:17:34 P.M. to 4:27:58 P.M.: Deterrence Center
  17. Post-Deterrence Era, First Hour A Lost World
  18. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Reflections on the Failure of Dark Forest Deterrence
  19. Post-Deterrence Era, First Hour A Lost World
  20. Post-Deterrence Era, Day 60 A Lost World
  21. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Technology Explosion on Trisolaris
  22. Post-Deterrence Era, Day 60 A Lost World
  23. Post-Deterrence Era, Year 2 Australia
  24. The Final Ten Minutes of the Deterrence Era, Year 62 November 28, 4:17:34 P.M. to 4:27:58 P.M.: Gravity and Blue Space, Deep Space
  25. Post-Deterrence Era, Year 2 The Morning After the Great Resettlement, Australia
  26. Post-Deterrence Era, Day 1–Day 5 Gravity and Blue Space, Deep Space Beyond the Oort Cloud

Part III

  1. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Cheng Xin
  2. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Delusions of Cosmic Persecution: The Last Attempt to Invalidate Dark Forest Theory
  3. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Cheng Xin
  4. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time A New Model for the Dark Forest
  5. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Sophon
  6. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time The Cosmic Safety Notice: A Lonely Performance Art
  7. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Sophon
  8. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time The Long Staircase
  9. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Yun Tianming
  10. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Yun Tianming’s Fairy Tales
  11. The First Tale of Yun Tianming “The New Royal Painter”
  12. The Second Tale of Yun Tianming “The Glutton’s Sea”
  13. The Third Tale of Yun Tianming “Prince Deep Water”
  14. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Yun Tianming’s Fairy Tales
  15. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time The Bunker Project: An Ark for Earth Civilization
  16. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Yun Tianming’s Fairy Tales
  17. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Motion Through Bending Space
  18. Broadcast Era, Year 7 Yun Tianming’s Fairy Tales
  19. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Three Paths of Survival for Earth Civilization
  20. Broadcast Era, Year 8 Fate’s Choice
  21. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Space Sentries: The Solar System Advance Warning System
  22. Broadcast Era, Year 8 Fate’s Choice
  23. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Terror of the Endless Night
  24. Broadcast Era, Year 8 Sun-Earth Lagrangian Point

Part IV

  1. Bunker Era, Year 11 Bunker World
  2. Bunker Era, Year 11 Lightspeed II
  3. Bunker Era, Year 11 Halo City

Part V

  1. Bunker Era, Year 67 Orion Arm of the Milky Way
  2. Bunker Era, Year 67 Halo
  3. Bunker Era, Year 66 Outside the Solar System
  4. Bunker Era, Year 68 Pluto
  5. Bunker Era, Year 68 The Two-Dimensional Solar System

Part VI

  1. Galaxy Era, Year 409 Our Star
  2. About Seventeen Billion Years After the Beginning of Time Our Star
  3. Outside of Time Our Universe
  4. Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time The Stairs of Responsibility
  5. Outside of Time Our Universe

Supplementary material

  1. A Brief Note from the Translator
  2. Table of Eras
  3. Translator’s Postscript
  4. Copyright