The Dark Forest
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!
"Wildly imaginative." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy
This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author.
In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
The Three-Body Problem Series
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End
Other Books
Ball Lightning
Supernova Era
To Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming)
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Reviews
These three books I really tried hard to grasp, understand and LIKE just a little…but Headaches are all I got.
By Whim1954
This is such a slog. There are about 15 different unrelated concepts in here that really should just be a collection of short stories. Maybe if it were a collection of short stories it wouldn’t be so noticeable that there are no characters in the whole book. The men are robots and the women are objects. It’s creepy.
By Maklom
Many 2nd books in a series let you down. This one only got better. With the same look into the human souls as heart of darkness this books makes us ask many questions about what humanity and survival means.
By Kuhox
I love this
By MikeWhalen108
While I have nothing unique to add to the encyclopedic praise for C Liu’s trilogy, I want to explain why I gave Dark a less than 5star review. In a word the reason is, translation. The translation of Dark pales in comparison to the translations of 3 Body and Death and has the potential to blur the author’s superb vision and themes. A number of people advised me to just skip book 2 when I told them that I had started the trilogy. At some level the advice was understandable, Martinsen’s translation is cumbersome, redundant and at times, monotonous. But it would be a mistake to allow the quality of the translation to divorce the reader from Dark’s underlying brilliance. I’d relish the chance to read an English translation of Dark by K Liu.
By Dmrk8