Series

Remembrance of Earth's Past series in reading order

There are 3 books in the Remembrance of Earth's Past series.

Published between 2006 and 2008, in the same order they are meant to be read.

Against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie makes contact with an alien civilization poised to invade Earth, fracturing humanity into factions of welcome and resistance. Liu fuses hard science with philosophical grandeur, challenging anthropocentrism and questioning

All 3 books, in reading order

• 1. The Three-Body Problem (2006) — Cixin Liu · 400 pages
• 2. The Dark Forest (2008) — Joel Martinsen · 513 pages
• 3. Death's End (2008) — Cixin Liu · 605 pages

All 3 books total 1,518 pages.

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