Dark Forest - Softcover

Liu Cixin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788543017 ISBN 13: 9781788543019

Publisher: Head of Zeus, 2018

Synopsis

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 the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.

About this title

About the Author

Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer. Prior to becoming a writer, he worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.

Review

'Even what doesn't happen is epic' London Review of Books. '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 R.R. Martin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788543017
• ISBN 13: 9781788543019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544