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Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
The Three Body Problem #2
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, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown.
Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.
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- Format : Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Fiction - Science Fiction
- Published : 2008 (This Edition 2016 - Head of Zeus)
- ISBN : 9781784971618
- SKU : B003337
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £10.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'Wildly imaginative, really interesting . . . The scope of it was immense' - Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.
'A milestone in Chinese science fiction' - New York Times.
'A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters, all conveyed in in a plain style capable of signalling hidden depths' - The Times.
'The best kind of science fiction' - Kim Stanley Robinson.
'Vivid, imaginative and rooted in cutting-edge science . . . Cixin stands at the top tier of speculative fiction in any language' - David Brin.
'Full of surprises and wondrous ideas . . . The depth of feeling here is extraordinary. Emotion and science brilliantly co-exist. To call the vision grand and ambitious seems a ridiculous understatement . . . I await the conclusion, Death's End, in the spring with enormous anticipation. I have no doubt that when this trilogy is complete we will have a masterpiece on our hands' - For Winters Nights.
'Hauntingly gentle in its delivery and gorgeous in its own wondrous atmosphere, The Dark Forest is a quiet slice of lovely science fiction . . . it's bursting with character and ingenuity'- Starburst magazine.
'Chinese SF has been neglected in the wider world for far too long' - Interzone.
'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 dreamlike game world, while cops and physicists deal with global conspiracies, murders, and alien invasions in the real world' - George RR Martin.
'The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest are the works of fiction I am most enthusiastic about' - Bloomberg.
The Author
Cixin Liu, born in June 1963, is a representative of the new generation of Chinese science fiction authors and recognized as a leading voice in Chinese science fiction. He was awarded the China Galaxy Science Fiction Award for eight consecutive years, from 1999 to 2006 and again in 2010. His representative work The Three-body Problem is the Best Story of 2015 Hugo Awards, the 3rd of 2015 Campbell Award finalists, and nominee of 2015 Nebulas Award. His works have received wide acclaim on account of their powerful atmosphere and brilliant imagination. Liu Cixin's stories successfully combine the exceedingly ephemeral with hard reality, all the while focussing on revealing the essence and aesthetics of science. He has endeavoured to create a distinctly Chinese style of science fiction. Liu Cixin is a member of the China Writers' Association and the Shanxi Writers' Association.