Narrative Arcs & Timeline
12 entries in the The Three-Body Problem compendium.
The ETO FoundingOne woman's broken faith became humanity's four-century countdown to extinction.The Three-Body Problem GameThree suns, no seasons, one species that learned to play dead.Ye Wenjie's Signal to TrisolarisOne woman's whispered invitation to the stars became humanity's 450-year countdown.The Battle of JupiterHumanity aimed its deadliest weapons not at an enemy, but at a planet—to save itself.The Sophon LockA two-dimensional ghost that locks the mind of an entire civilization.The Second-Generation CivilizationWhen the universe is flattened to a painting, the second generation paints a new one.The Red Coast FleetOne dish in the desert heard a god; one woman in the control room said, come home.Luo Ji's ConfrontationOne man, one theory, and the silence of the universe as the ultimate deterrent.The PDCBureaucracy meets the apocalypse: humanity's last committee meeting before the stars arrive.The ETO Admiralty-Survivors SplitOne organization, two doctrines: lead the invasion or merely survive it.The Three-Book StructureThree suns, three books, one inescapable entropy: the cosmos as a game with no stable solution.The 450-Year CountdownFour and a half centuries of dread, compressed into a single question: will you be found first?
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