The Redemption of Time

The Redemption of Time is a science fiction novel by Chinese writer Baoshu (pen name of Li Jun) It was written in just three weeks as a fan fiction to continue the events of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. It was later published with Liu Cixin's allowance as a novel by Chongqing Press in China in 2011. Due to being received poorer than the trilogy, the novel gained a controversial status among fans, especially whether its events constitute to the official canon. An English translation by Ken Liu was published in July 2019. The novel was written as a dedicated fan's attempt to explain and fill out some of the gaps of in the original trilogy. The author makes "no claim" whether the novel "constitutes a part of the Three-Body canon" and that he imagines it "as a dedicated fans' attempt" to explain the events in the trilogy. In this new universe, the Trisolaran system is stable with one small star in stable orbit around Big Crunch. The Hunter, with Cheng Xin and Guan Yifan, is still in orbit and can only land in millions of years.