The Redemption of Time
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The Redemption of Time
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Narrated by:
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Bruno Roubicek
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By:
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Baoshu
About this listen
At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming, riddled with cancer, chose to end his life. But death for Yun Tianming is merely the first step in a journey that will place him on the front line of a war that has raged since the beginning of time.
As Yun Tianming lay dying, his brain was extracted from his body, flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft and launched on a trajectory to intercept the Trisolarian First Fleet. It was a desperate plan. But there was an infinitesimal chance that one day Tianming may, somehow, send valuable information back to Earth. And so he does. But not before he succumbed to subjective centuries of alien torture and betrayed humanity.
Rewarded with a cloned body by the Trisolarans, Tianming has spent millennia in exile as a traitor to the human race. But now he has a chance at redemption. A being calling itself The Spirit recruits him to help wage war against a foe that threatens the existence of the entire universe. But Tianming refuses to be a pawn again. He has his own plans....
©2011 Baoshu Baoshu (P)2019 Head of ZeusIt really redeemsn time
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Enjoyable romp for fans of the 3 body problem
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Epic Story
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This is in fact fan fiction - set in the same universe and using the same characters. It is a fun imagination of some gaps in the story and also taking the story forward. It gives backgrounds to some of the characters.
Overall I enjoyed it, When a long and all engrossing series comes to an end it often leaves me with a feeling of wanting to remain with it for a bit more, so in that way it was a nice rounding-off of the story. It gave depth and clarity to some characters and ideas. There were a few bits that I enjoyed for their pure surprise value! It had a much more light-hearted mood than the RoEP books.
But it did get a little ridiculous and silly at times. It skims over the science in large parts, this author is clearly not as adept at writing about novel scientific ideas as Cixin Liu. So less science and more fiction.
Overall I would recommend the read/ listen, though it’s not in the same league.
Fan fiction. Interesting but a bit silly
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The book itself is set in the same Universe but the events are inserted into the 3 body timeline before, during and after the events of the trilogy. As it is advertised as a prequel and appeared on Audible before the final 3 body volume I listened to it after listening to books 1 and 2 of the trilogy = there seemed to be a lot of non-sequiturs and sudden. shifts in events and characters and I then realised one needs to have read volume 3 before starting this book. I estimate the false advertising reduced my eventual enjoyment of volume three by around 30%..
That gripe out of the way, this book is a good listen/read and supplements the original trilogy without too much distortion of Cixin Liu's original story and I would recommend it as a fourth volume of the story. I do wonder what would happen in Cixin Liu were to want to write a fourth volume himself, having had his intellectual property impinged upon by what is actually fan fiction. Apparently Liu did not object to the publication of Baoshu's continuation of the story, so I guess he never had any intention of developing this Story Universe any further.
This is NOT a prequel to the 3 body trilogy!!!
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