The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy is one of the best sets of speculative science fiction books to appear in recent years. The Trilogy explores themes surrounding both the human will to survive, and the potential of mankind to inflict harm upon itself rather than band together in the face of a greater threat. Another major theme is our place in the universe and assumptions about the cosmos and our lack of actual concrete knowledge about it. Because of its exploration of these themes, the Remembrance of Earth’s Past is one of the most existentially terrifying series of the modern era. I’ve covered several aspects of the series in videos that can be found linked in a playlist below. In this video specifically, we will discuss the ending of the final book in the trilogy, Death’s End. This video will have spoilers for all three books in the series.
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This is the only channel of this type I know and I can’t get enough
Some of those universes may not even be populated, so the universe is just dead, game over man
I know this is just sci-fi but if you slow down the speed of light. Wouldn't that also slow down the speed of interactions between atoms since photons are the information carriers for the electric fields. Why don't the brains of the people in the low light speed domain also slow down and they shouldn't be able to notice anything?
Quinn releases a 30 min video?
Yeah, I got time.
Your excellent coverage of the book series is like reading it again in a book club of sorts. Very much enjoy and appreciate your hard work!
Sounfs like 647 is eden and the main characters are Adam and Eve.
Finally
Holy shit…about to order the series.✊🏾
Oh yes, Environmentalism has always been a theme in the series, since the very first installment. The Co-founder of the Threebody Organization was a radical environmentalist. Ye Wenjie read the book ‘Silent Spring’ during her time at the Red Bank Base, which was about the apocalyptic environmental disaster caused by insecticide abuse in the US. Different chemicals interact in the natural bodies and created new toxins, the unpredictable results making chemical decontamination extremely difficult.
The advanced civilizations of the Universe are the ones abusing the insecticides. They use horrific and unstoppable, ever-expanding weapons of mass destruction to cull the younger races, who are literally just insects to them. However they themselves cannot cancel out the effects of these weapons, and find themselves under the same threat they put the younger races in. Ironic. Just like how humans got poisoned by chemicals of our own production.
Fascinating. You add a real interpretation to the material. Side note: I really don’t see the “bad news” of universal expansion. Once people escape thinking on the time scale if a human life, they’ll see that we are at the very beginning of long eons of existence using the matter tethered to us by gravity. “The End” is so far away as to be almost imaginary.
So freakin excited!!!
I sooo look forward to a new video. I love this series. Thanks!
I fucking love this series. Please make more of it its just to good
I fully agree that Death's End, and all the books really, are a great analogy for environmental destruction.
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Yes quinn, this is the one I've been waiting for
Damn it. I want to watch your videos on Three Body, but I have to finish the series first. The first book was very good, otherwise I'd let you spoil it for me.
29:00 Person of Interest especially Season 4 Episode 11, "If..Then ..Else", is some of the best TV.
I can't think of any other media depicting how an actual AI or near Super human AI even in a diminished state would process info. And what a battle tween two such systems would could look like.
The series starts off a little slow but really picks up. 100% recommend it. This is coming from someone who research engineer specialising in FPGA/ASIC design for Hardware Accelerated AI systems.
Three body scary
That sounds like a horrifically bleak and depressing story. I'll pass.
Your Three Body Problem series is how I found you. And I absolutely love the content.
I will admit, this is an author I couldn't read, but I love when you read it. Thanks.
I've really enjoyed your deep dives into these books. You do an excellent job distilling the essence of the story and make it very digestible.