MindMap Gallery The Three-Body Problem trilogy
The "Three-Body" trilogy contains basic information, content introduction, creative background, character introduction, chronological comparison, work theme, and artistic techniques. I hope this mind map will be helpful to you.
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"The Three-Body Problem" trilogy
Basic Information
About the Author
Liu Cixin
One of the representative writers of Chinese science fiction novels
work
"Supernova Era"
"Ball Lightning"
"The Wandering Earth"
"Rural Teacher"
honor
First Prize of China Science Fiction Galaxy Award
Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Writer
First Asian writer to win Hugo Award
Work information
Composed of "Three-Body", "Three-Body II: Dark Forest", "Three-Body III: Eternal Death"
Alias
Once Upon a Time on Earth Trilogy
Genre
novel
type
science fiction
It is widely regarded as a milestone in Chinese science fiction literature.
brief introduction
Part One "The Three-Body Problem"
The Cultural Revolution was in full swing. During this period, astronomer Ye Wenjie experienced many disasters and was taken to the military's top-secret project "Red Bank Project"
Ye Wenjie used the sun as an antenna to send the first cry of earth civilization into the universe, making breakthrough progress in the search for extraterrestrial civilization.
Under the dominance of three irregularly moving suns, the "Trisolaran civilization" four light-years away has been destroyed and reborn more than a hundred times, and is being forced to escape from its home star.
Just at this moment, they received a message from the earth
Desperate for humanity, Ye Wenjie exposed the coordinates of the earth to the Trisolarans, completely changing the fate of mankind.
There are abnormal disturbances in the basic science of the earth. Nanoscientist Wang Miao enters the mysterious online game "Three Body" and begins to gradually approach this problem.
the truth of the world
After using super technology to lock down the basic science of the earth's people, the huge Trisolaran fleet began to march towards the earth, and the end of mankind quietly came.
Part Two "Three-Body II·Dark Forest"
After using technology to lock down the science of the people on earth, the Trisolarans dispatched a huge space fleet to attack the solar system and face the earth's civilization.
unprecedented crisis
Humanity formed a huge space fleet, and at the same time took advantage of the fatal flaw of the Trisolarans' transparent thinking to formulate the "Wall-Facing Plan". three body
People rely on the "wall breakers" and "wall facers" selected by the traitors among the earth's people to play a game of wisdom.
In the life-and-death competition for civilized survival, Luo Ji gradually realized his responsibilities from escapism and hedonism at the beginning, and thought of
A way to fight against the invasion of Trisolaran civilization
Later, logic confirmed the law of the dark forest among cosmic civilizations. Any civilization that exposes its position will be quickly wiped out.
The threat of the entire universe announcing the location coordinates of the Trisolaran world temporarily stopped the Trisolaran invasion of the solar system and established a fragile strategic balance between the Earth and the Trisolaran world.
Part Three "Three-Body III·The God of Death Eternal Life"
Yun Tianming, who is terminally ill, bought a star as a gift to his college classmate Cheng Xin, who he had a crush on. Cheng Xin asked the Trisolaran Fleet for her participation in (PIA).
He has a job of launching detectors, but he wants him, who has a professional background in aerospace, to give up euthanasia and donate his brain to the Ladder Project as an executioner.
The war with the Trisolaran civilization allowed mankind to see the dark truth of the universe for the first time. The existence of the earth's civilization was threatened by the attack of the dark forest.
The enemy dare not expose himself in space. The warship that launched a dark battle in a universe with zero morality was induced to return, but was judged by the moral earth civilization.
Cheng Xin, an incompetent and cowardly girl, was chosen to be the sword bearer who controls the fate of the earth. Because of Luo Ji's success, she regarded this as a mere task.
It was a mission that took time. The water droplet launched an attack on the earth just after taking office. Cheng Xin made a wrong decision in order to be loyal to human nature.
The "Blue Space" was pursued by the "Gravity" and two companion "water droplets". After entering the four-dimensional space, it destroyed the water droplets.
And occupied the "Gravity", started gravitational wave broadcasting and announced the coordinates of the Trisolaran Galaxy to the universe.
Yun Tianming got in touch with the earth and revealed a lot of information to Cheng Xin by telling three fairy tales he made up;
In order to understand the secret of the competition for survival, the bunker plan was launched. The space curvature drive research led by Vader was terminated due to Cheng Xin's wrong judgment, so that mankind was ultimately unable to escape the fate of being destroyed by advanced civilization.
When humanity on earth was on the verge of extinction, only two survivors, Cheng Xin and Ai AA, left in a light-speed spacecraft.
The "gravekeepers" of the Earth Civilization Museum on Pluto, they take away the essence of human civilization on Pluto
On a planet sent by Yun Tianming, Cheng Xin met Guan Yifan and explored the truth about dimensionality reduction in the universe. However, something beyond all
The power in the world demanded that the universe be reset to zero and reborn, traveling through 18 million years of time and space in the black realm... Cheng Xin did not wait for the arrival of Yun Tianming, and re-entered the life of the big universe after living briefly in the small universe with Guan Yifan.
Creative background
In the 1990s, as the Chinese government strengthened its propaganda of "rejuvenating the country through science and technology" and the scientific and technological undertakings continued to develop, many favorable conditions for science fiction creation emerged.
conditions; at the same time, the creative team, which is mainly composed of scientific and technological workers, is gradually renewed, and some elite readers separated from science fiction fans have also grown into writers.
Liu Cixin has published works in the magazine "Science Fiction World" since 1999, and has since created a number of short and medium-sized novels; published in January 2006
When he was writing the short story "Mountain", many readers wrote to him saying that they wanted him to write a full-length novel, so Liu Cixin decided not to write any more short and medium-length stories.
He originally planned to use the idea of "a star system with three irregularly orbiting stars" to write a short story, but later found that it could be turned into a novel.
Under the influence of a publisher, he made major changes to the original concept and changed it into a long trilogy series, narrating a special journey of mankind from the 1960s to five hundred years later.
After the publication of the third part, the series was renamed from "Once Upon a Time on Earth Trilogy" to "The Three-Body Trilogy"
Character introduction
Ye Wenjie
("Three-Body") Physicist Ye Zhetai's daughter's father refused to give in to irrational fanaticism and was criticized to death. She was at that extreme.
The tragic experiences in the early years made her kind and gentle lose confidence in human nature.
Due to her extraordinary achievements in astrophysics, she was able to contact another life in outer space. She sent signals to the Trisolarans and
The original intention of bringing them to Earth was to use the power of aliens to guide humans to develop better.
While rationally thinking about the nature of human nature, she has been in the process of moral criticism of herself, but her brief wavering was soon revealed by the people she saw.
Dispelled by their ugliness, her rational thinking about the evil side of human nature plunged her into a deep spiritual crisis, and this mental paranoia prompted her to become the leader of the Earth Trisolaran organization.
("Dark Forest") She summarized the axioms of cosmic sociology based on half her life's efforts, and first proposed two important concepts: chain of suspicion and technological explosion.
concepts that inspired Luo Ji to discover the mysteries of the universe
Wang Miao
("Three-Body") Physics Professor, entered the boundary of science through Shen Yufei, and began to understand the virtual civilization in the "Three-Body" game
The nanomaterials he led research also provided technical support for the Earth Defense Force to obtain ETO intelligence.
Shi Qiang
("The Three-Body Problem") The vulgar policeman who has never looked up at the stars has worldly wisdom and primitive vitality, showing amazing confidence and energy.
He is keenly observant, decisive and has strong action ability
Like a magic needle that stabilizes the sea, he stabilizes the confidence of the rational Wang Miao, and leads the scientists who have fallen into despair to see the scene of locusts raging, which makes them
Understand the tenacity of "bugs" and regain hope
During the operation to intercept the ETO ship, it was proposed to use the nanomaterials studied by Wang Miao to cut the ship.
("Dark Forest") He became Luo Ji's protector, saved Luo Ji's life several times, and passed through the hibernation plan to two hundred years later.
Continue to stabilize the future world
Luo Ji
("Dark Forest") A scholar who is incompatible with seriousness and dedication. He has dual degrees in astronomy and sociology, and often uses opportunism.
They are cynical, irresponsible, and have a mocking attitude toward the scholar's sense of mission.
When I became a Wallfacer, I thought of using this opportunity to create a comfort zone for myself to enjoy. Finally put aside emotional factors and think calmly
Examine, deduce the state of the dark forest in the universe, and find a way to deter the Trisolarans
("The Immortal Death") Luo Ji spent a lonely life as a sword holder. He was arrested immediately after handing the controller to Cheng Xin.
On Pluto, a painting in my memory passed away
Zhang Beihai
("Dark Forest") A political officer of the Space Force, he is at the forefront of the apocalyptic battle. He is a man of great forbearance and deep-seated, and he is also one of the most powerful people.
staunch escapeist
With deep thoughts, plenty of patience, and decisive actions, in order to promote the future development direction of the Space Force, he will not hesitate to carefully plan to get rid of those who affect decision-making.
Conservative "old aerospace"
Behind the firm belief in winning future wars based on human subjective initiative is the fact that under the premise of stagnant scientific progress, the relationship between human beings and Trisolarans is
Faced with the rational judgment of inevitable defeat, he looked for opportunities to use hibernation technology to travel two hundred years in the future, and successfully hijacked a spaceship to escape in order to preserve the spark of civilization for mankind.
In order to save the last fire of mankind, he would not hesitate to destroy his fellow travelers, but because he hesitated for half a second at the last moment, he finally became a meal for his fellow humans.
Yun Tianming
("The God of Death") Suffering from cancer, he was destined to die as soon as he appeared on the scene.
Before his death, he was deprived of love, family affection and all other life-related desires. His relatives wanted him to euthanasia to reduce the burden of life. The only love in the world
Man wants to take out his brain and use it for human space experiments
Because of the entrustment of his admired college classmate Cheng Xin, Yun Tianming gave up euthanasia and went into space alone, and obtained some relevant technologies in the Trisolaran fleet.
information and sent back to the earth in the form of fairy tale metaphors
Cheng Xin
("Death is Immortal") Cheng Xin, who works in the planetary defense department, proposed a ladder plan to propel the spacecraft with nuclear bombs, which directly prompted Yun Tianming to "donate his brain"
Participate in the project
Because of a star given to her by Yun Tianming, Cheng Xin was chosen by all mankind, represented by the United Nations, as the successor of the sword-bearer Luo Ji. She represented the
Belief in the power of human love, when faced with a crisis, she would not send out the coordinates to destroy the Trisolaran world, and was defeated by the loveless Trisolarans.
Cheng Xin established the Starlink Group with the help of Ai AA and supported the light speed spacecraft research of Thomas Vader and others. Faced with the confrontation between her company and the whole world,
Cheng Xin asked Vader to stop resisting without hesitation, but this decision blocked the last way for mankind to build a light-speed spacecraft, leading to the complete destruction of mankind when the attack came.
Chronological comparison
Era of Crisis: AD 201X-2208
The Era of Deterrence: AD 2208-2270
After Deterrence: 2270-2272 AD
Broadcasting Era: 2272-2332 AD
Bunker Era: 2333 AD - 2400 AD
Galactic Era: 2273 AD - Unknown
DX3906 Galaxy Black Domain Era: 2687 AD - 18906416 AD
Universe Timeline No. 647: Started in AD 18906416
Theme of the work
As a technocratic, Liu Cixin destroyed and reshaped the planet he described over and over again in the novel. man struggles in his
Under his eyes, he tried to find the last glimmer of hope in his cold rational thinking.
Throughout the deep thinking on the destiny of mankind
It reflects a major turning point in this era: spirit, human nature, morality, and faith. These were originally philosophers, ethicists,
A topic reserved for theologians is increasingly attracting the attention of scientists
Examine the humanities from a scientific perspective and interpret science in a humanistic way
"Cosmic Sociology"
"The Three-Body Problem" writes about life-and-death decision moments many times, which are related to the rise and fall of civilization and the survival of human nature. These moments reflect the relationship between the author and the author
Moral dilemmas closely related to the real history faced by readers
The plot concept is entangled in two dimensions of morality: zero morality for survival, and morality with distinction between good and evil. moral human beings
(or any life) cannot survive in a universe with zero morality
the hidden image of faith
It is human beings themselves, and human beings are their own saviors.
artistic techniques
rich imagination
In terms of the brilliance of its plot development, it is precisely the author's amazing and beyond ordinary imagination that serves as its basis.
The author's understanding and utilization of various scientific knowledge as reflected in the novel series and his extrapolation fantasy that is consistent with science fiction logic
philosophical thinking
Rather than using the concept of "cosmic sociology" as the author calls it, it would be more appropriate to use "cosmic ethics"
It is the author's thinking that transcends conventional thinking and extends it to the entire universe presupposed by the existence of extraterrestrial civilization.
Ethics that people on earth can understand, and arguments and theoretical foundations, give the entire series of novels a true cosmic vision.
It presupposes a dark premise on a cruel cosmic scale, which is also the core of "cosmic sociology"
Survival is the first need of civilization
Civilization continues to grow and expand
The description is technical in nature
The use of rationality to weave the plot makes people feel grand, brilliant and difficult to grasp, and at the same time it has serious logic and details.
Backed by radical scientific reasoning
"Realistic" approach
The writing is precise and solid, bringing the fantasy to life
The world created by Liu Cixin has a vivid sense of history and reality that readers can identify with.