The Dark Forest

Remembrance of Earth's Past

by Cixin Liu

Paperback, 550 pages

English language

Published Aug. 1, 2016 by Head of Zeus.

ISBN:: 978-1-78497-161-8

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This is the second novel in the "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" near-future trilogy. Written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion—four centuries in the future. The aliens' human collaborators 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 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 …

This is the second novel in the "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" near-future trilogy. Written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

9 editions

Beta Block : Bookwyrm reviewed Der dunkle Wald : Roman by Cixin Liu

Inhalt vs. Form

4 stars

Der zweite Teil der Trisolaris-Reihe war für mich nicht so gut zu lesen wie der erste (Die drei Sonnen). Obwohl die Handlung interessant und spannend ist, fand ich die Art, wie es geschrieben war, eher langweilig. Das mag vielleicht an der Übersetzung liegen, keine Ahnung. Generell finde ich Hard SciFi wie den von Liu Cixin sehr gut, weil ich da immer wieder wieder neue Sachen lerne.

Übrigens hat es die "Dunkle-Wald-These" sogar als wissenschaftliche Theorie zum Fermi-Paradoxon ins Wikipedia geschafft.

Luis reviewed La forêt sombre by Cixin Liu

Continuación de El problema de los tres cuerpos

3 stars

La historia parece centrarse en ésta ocasión en los vallados, tres hombres con plena libertad para planificar la defensa de la tierra ante la futura llegada de los extraterrestres invasores, que ocurrirá dentro de 400 años. el comienzo me está gustando, cuando lo termine actualizaré la reseña.

Library Liberty Zed reviewed The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

The Dark Forest

3 stars

The book's premise is fascinating, it tackles quetions about life, cooperation and conflict. But I agree with kab, the author writes misogynisticly with very objectified female characters.

moving to outside.ofa.dog reviewed The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past)

Wow

5 stars

This book is in a lot of ways more of everything that Three Body Problem was. It's a huger sweep, a pretty intense exploration of how getting thrown into responsibility can break people, and it builds on a lot of the ideas of the first book about how ununified people would be in response to a threat like this - stuff that now looks rather prescient after a year and a half of covid. It does also suffer from the same weaknesses, perhaps even intensified. In particular there's not much dialogue that is really characters being theirselves as opposed to Liu exploring an idea through his characters. But the good parts were so compelling that this was far from ruining the book for me.

I was left with a few questions, two of which seem like weaknesses of the book: 1) Why did Ye pick Luo to have the conversation …

I was left with a few questions, two of which seem like weaknesses of the book: 1) Why did Ye pick Luo to have the conversation with that she does in the preface? 2) How did any other humans know that Luo would be important? (that conversation with Ye explains Trisolaris's interest - clearly they'd have been surveilling her intensely) 3) How is there a third book? Three Body Problem left the story with an obvious lead in for a sequel, but the ending to this book could have been a series ending. I am now intrigued and want to see where Liu takes this next.

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