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The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
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Description for The Dark Forest
Paperback. The universe is a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, others are hell, a dire existential threat. Stealth is survival. Any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. And the others are on the way. Translator(s): Liu, Ken. Series: The Three-Body Problem. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 148 x 40. Weight in Grams: 392.
Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, ... Read more
Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Condition
New
Series
The Three-Body Problem
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784971618
SKU
9781784971618
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About Cixin Liu
CIXIN LIU is China's #1 SF writer and the first translated author to win a Hugo award. Prior to becoming a writer, he worked as an engineer.
Reviews for The Dark Forest
'Even what doesn't happen is epic' London Review of Books. '[The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest are] the works of fiction I am most enthusiastic about' Bloomberg. 'A breakthrough book ... a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology, where kings and emperors from both western and Chinese history mingle in a ... Read more