Name: lala's review of The Redemption of Time by Baoshu
Item: The Redemption of Time
Rating: 4
Author: lala

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Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Timeextends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. Death is no release for Yun Tianming- merely the first step on a journey that will place him on the frontline of a war that has raged since the beginning of time. At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming died. He was flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft and launched on a trajectory to intercept the Trisolaran First Fleet. It was a desperate plan, a Trojan gambit almost certain to fail. But there was an infinitesimal chance that the aliens would find rebooting a human irresistible, and that someday, somehow, Tianming might relay valuable information back to Earth. And so he did. But not before he betrayed humanity. Now, after millennia in exile, Tianming has a final chance at redemption. A being calling itself The Spirit has recruited him to help wage war against a foe that threatens the existence of the entire universe. A challenge he will accept, but this time Tianming refuses to be a mere pawn... He has his own plans. Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Timeextends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. You'll discover why the universe is a 'dark forest', and for the first time, you'll come face-to-face with a Trisolaran...

The Redemption of Time

Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Time extends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. Death is no release for Yun Tianming – merely the first step on a journey that will place him on the frontline of a war that has raged since the beginning of time. At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming died. He was flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft and launched on a trajectory to intercept the Trisolaran First Fleet. It was a desperate plan, a Trojan gambit almost certain to fail. But there was an infinitesimal chance that the aliens would find rebooting a human irresistible, and that someday, somehow, Tianming might relay valuable information back to Earth. And so he did. But not before he betrayed humanity. Now, after millennia in exile, Tianming has a final chance at redemption. A being calling itself The Spirit has recruited him to help wage war against a foe that threatens the existence of the entire universe. A challenge he will accept, but this time Tianming refuses to be a mere pawn... He has his own plans. Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Time extends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. You'll discover why the universe is a 'dark forest', and for the first time, you'll come face-to-face with a Trisolaran...

Edward Steel

lala

** spoiler alert **
           I held off on reading this book because… I didn’t want the Three-Body Problem saga to end 😭😭 this is a paraquel, a sequel that was written by a fan of Cixin Liu. I hesitated to buy it at first, but then I decided what the hell. I read the reviews for this book and a lot of people said that Baoshu is not as good a writer as Cixin Liu, which, I think was expected. The blurbs says that it’s the story of what the Trisolarans did to Yun Tianming and I guess it was an interesting hook? And Baoshu delivered!!! It was interesting to read about Yun Tianming stories but what came after was even MORE interesting. DIMENSIONAL WAR??? It just expanded the Three-Body Problem saga even more!! It somehow fill in the gap that Death’s End have. Death’s End have craaazy world building that I guess couldn’t be succinctly explained in its 600 or so pages. Nevertheless, sometimes the writing is kind of dragging, and begs more questions than answer. And somehow (spoiler alert) it was already given from the start that Yun Tianming was playing a losing game. However!! (Spoiler alert again) The last bit of story where the omniscient being approach (new) Yun Tianming just ties up the whole saga perfectly and I just wish I can experience the whole thing from the start. It fits nicely to the saga title, Remembrance of Earth’s Past. Everyone should read the whole saga 😭😭😭

You love to see fan fiction crush it this hard! A beast. Fit the story and the style of the original trilogy beautifully and even got the authors full endorsement. 

Apiecalypse Jen

Ben Nathan

It felt like a true continuation of the original trilogy. The tone was spot on, the ideas were huge, and the story was all sorts of insane. Loved it. Made me want to reread the whole thing.

Oh, and that ending was so perfect

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