Northwest loess hills
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 27 (27)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 27The hills were rejected as the observatory site despite the best electromagnetic environment, because the task force leader feared conflict with poor, crafty villagers.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 27Ye meets Evans in the hills
While surveying observatory sites, Ye visits the foreigner called Bethune and hears Evans explain his tree planting and Pan-Species Communism. The site is later rejected for human-environment reasons.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Evans's forest is logged
Three years later, loggers including officials cut down Evans's forest because it lacks legal protection, though he could stop them with his inheritance.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Ye recruits Evans
Responding to Evans's postcard, Ye tells him the Red Coast and Trisolaris story. Evans, despairing of humanity, agrees to join her, saying 'let us be comrades.'