The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings has always been to become as grand as their thoughts.

Episode 40 is no ordinary episode! This time TrChFic is crossing over with Couch Command and its esteemed host Keith Hayward to jump right down the Chinese sci-fi wormhole of Liu Cixin's haymaker-punch ending to his Three Body Problem trilogy, Death's End (死神永生 / Sǐshén Yǒngshēng). Hell yes.

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(警告 / Jǐnggào / warning)

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// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //

What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese? by Xia Jia
The Roman and Chinese Empires
The London Chinese Scifi Group and their discussion of The Lighthouse Girl by Baoshu
The Cultural Revolution, Fanaticism and Rationality in The Three-Body Problem - a Master's thesis that gets into some of what Keith and I discuss

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Ep 40 - Liu Cixin and Death's End with Keith Justice Hayward

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Ep 40 - Liu Cixin and Death's End with Keith Justice Hayward