Death's End (The Three-Body Problem, #3)

by Cixin Liu

the work of Charles Misner?”

All my life has been spent climbing up a flight of stairs made of responsibility.

I want to tell all those who believe in God that I am not the Chosen One. I also want to tell all the atheists that I am not a history-maker. I am but an ordinary person. Unfortunately, I have not been able to walk the ordinary person’s path. My path is, in reality, the journey of a civilization.

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