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The Redemption of Time

By: Baoshu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
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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....

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WARNING: Do not read this fan fiction before you have read all three volumes of "The Three Body" problem by Cixin Liu as it is FULL of spoilers and will detract from your enjoyment of the 3 body series.

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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fairly good.. Downside is the Mary Sue subscribe
syndrome of fan fiction. The characters become a bit too perfect and the love events a bit too cute and syrupy

pretty good

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Truely magnificent book. I loved the original Trilogy and felt devastated that it ended with so many loose ends and questions. I had never experienced fan fiction before, but this fan has written a true conclusion that cleverly uses words that subtly take you back through the trilogy and tie up loose ends. What makes this book even more breath taking is that it continues in the vein of the trilogy by using physics to take us on an even more epic journey. I have been with Audible for many years and never written a review, but this book has compelled me to write one now.

Thank you for this book. Now I am satisfied!

This Book Was NEEDED

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It started off very good filling in some missing pieces from the original trilogy. But around halfway through it started getting worse and every arc of the story would get into weird sexual stuff. Could almost not get through the last hour at all. Skip this one unless you really need more 3 body after Death's End

don't ruin the story for yourself

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great story very well written and draws in many of the unanswered elements of the 3 body books, loved it, it's a definite must for anyone who's read the other books. helped by the same gentle narrator styled perfectly! highly recommend

a very nice roundup to complete the saga

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