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First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 30 (Excerpt from A Past Outside of Time Reflections on the Failure of Dark Forest Deterrence)

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Book 3: Death's End

Ch 30A degenerate-matter string running the length of a gravitational wave ship has a fifty-year half-life, after which a whole new ship must be built.

An unofficial, spoiler-aware fan guide to Remembrance of Earth's Past by Cixin Liu. Nothing past your reading progress is shown. Book details and covers from Open Library.

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