Death's End
Review of Death's End by Cixin Liu.
The 3rd and final book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu, I picked this up immediately after finishing Dark Forest.
Unlike the first two books in the trilogy, Death's End doesn't seem to have a single consistent plot line or narrative, branching into different timelines and such as it goes. It started in ancient Constantinople, and ended at the end of the universe?
Of the whole series, I feel like this one fell short. It teased too many details of world development, without ever giving an actual release (the 'singer', for example).
This book continued the trend of deus ex machina, while also throwing out any semblance of coherent plot. I guess, in a way, the time dilation in the plot was a metaphor for time dilation experienced by the main characters. Entire societal upheavals and restructurings glossed over in a few pages.