Listening Post 1379
Names: Listening Post 1379Post 1379
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 32 (32)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 32It is a small, old listening post with limited transmission power, with a maximum range of about twelve hundred light-years.
Connections
- has memberThe listenerworks as sole listener
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 32The listener receives Earth's message
The listener at Post 1379 detects and decodes Earth's transmission, learning of Earth, then dreams of it burning.
- Book 1 · Ch 32The listener sends the warning
To save Earth and his own life's meaning, the listener transmits 'Do not answer!' toward the source, hoping to keep Earth silent.