The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 45 Information that can be disclosed: about background time
Regarding the background time of "The Three-Body Problem", in fact, Da Liu only gave a vague time,

At the beginning of "Death and Eternal Life", there is a "chronological comparison table", in which the crisis era is 201×-2208 AD.

But in the last episode of "Dark Forest", it is written clearly in the book that it was the 208th year of the Crisis Era, when Luo Ji dug his own grave and successfully deterred the Trisolarans.

So it stands to reason that if we push back, it should be the beginning of the crisis era in 2000. Obviously, there is a loophole in the "comparison table" in "Death of Immortality".

The book in the author's hand is the 2010 edition of Chongqing Publishing House. I don't know if the later editions have corrected this loophole.

Since the time of the comparison table is unreasonable, the author tries to use the iconic things that appear in the book to determine an approximate time.

In "Dark Forest" mentioned a lot of things and things that intersect with reality, such as the "Tang" aircraft carrier, can it be regarded as 003 under construction?

But the author thinks that in the so-called prequel "Ball Lightning", there are already two aircraft carriers in service, and there is also a fight with Talami, plus post-war reconstruction, etc., a bunch of things.

Obviously, using an aircraft carrier as a "navigation mark" will make the timeline even more confusing.

As a last resort, the author had no choice but to learn from Da Liu and blur the background time, so he probably used the time when the book was completed as the background time.

However, there was a huge conflict with the original work. Around 2015 (some people think it was around 2012), we gradually regained our national self-confidence, and economically, we have also distanced ourselves from the old three Japan in recent years.

These were the changes that Liu could not feel in 2006 when "Three-Body Problem" was written.

There will be a contradiction in consciousness. Now we believe that China should play a greater role in the international arena.

One of the manifestations is the selection of the Wallfacer... This will be mentioned again later.

In short, the international issues involved in the book, everyone must hope to make a different interpretation from the original book according to China's current international status.

This is also the reason why the author will use the present as the background time, and then use the time around 2006 to start the chapter, which is obviously not very interesting.

This single chapter is to let readers and friends have a vague concept of background time, so that some descriptions in this book will not have a sense of contradiction.

However, this also caused some details to be misaligned, such as the age of some characters.

If the present is used as the time background, then Shi Qiang should be 60 or [-] years old. In the original book, he stated that he participated in the Vietnam War, and his approximate age can be calculated based on this time point.

The description of him in this book is only 40 years old.

This kind of place needs to continue to be blurred. After all, there is no specific year in the original work. You can combine the original work with the background time of this book. alright.

Only these details do not match the number, and other things use around 2006 and 2020 as the background time, and there will not be much conflict.

So this setting obviously has more advantages than disadvantages, so it was adopted by the author.

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