A Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy - Liu Cixin

1. Quick thoughts on the trilogy as a whole. 
2. Liu is one of those writers who makes you realise the reason why you liked Sci-fi in the first place: it's the idea that this is not necessarily all pure fantasy, because at least part of it could become true in the future.  Even if you can't imagine aliens making contact with humans, you can imagine us travelling at 1% the speed of light; dealing with game theory at the cosmological level or what hibernation and future tech might look like 200 years from now; you can also understand how humans might react to the crises of future generations that are space- event triggered and also human caused and the moral quagmires that result from the same.
3. But he takes this even further and makes it a story about the meaning of life and our existence in this universe, and he approaches it from his Chinese world view which makes it interesting 
4. The first two books are so far removed from the last book that it is just crazy - the former are just there to give context to the crazy events that happen later on in book 3. Book 1 was a puzzle; book 2 was a game of cat and mouse and strategic thinking at a universe level; book 3 was about the Earth in the fight for its life and purpose.
5. In the end, the way I see it - it's a trilogy about the fragility of human life and how small we are in the universe, including relative to the laws of physics
6. It's probably a 4.4 or 4.5 out of 5