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The Dark Forest

#2 in series

by Cixin Liu
P. J. Ochlan
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The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!

Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America
PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: "A mind-bending epic."—The New York Times

  • "War of the Worlds for the 21st century."—The Wall Street Journal
  • "Fascinating."—TIME
  • "Extraordinary."—The New Yorker
  • "Wildly imaginative."—Barack Obama
  • "Provocative."—Slate
  • "A breakthrough book."—George R. R. Martin
  • "Impossible to put down."—GQ
  • "Absolutely mind-unfolding."—NPR
  • "You should be reading Liu Cixin."—The Washington Post
    The Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.
    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 by Cixin Liu
    Ball Lightning
    Supernova Era
    To Hold Up the Sky
    The Wandering Earth
    A View from the Stars
    A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

    • Creators

    • Series

      Remembrance of Earth's Past

    • Publisher

    • Release date

      August 11, 2015

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Listen audiobook

        • ISBN: 9781427268297
        • File size: 651338 KB
        • Duration: 22:36:57

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • AudioFile Magazine
        After discovering that an alien race is coming to eradicate humankind, the world prepares for a battle that is more than four centuries in the future. A narrator change in an audiobook series is always tricky, but the decision to cast P.J. Ochlan instead of Luke Daniels, narrator of the first book, proves to work. Ochlan provides a strong and determined delivery of the narrative while maintaining consistency across a host of dynamic and curious characters. Additionally, he captures the increasing tension in a controlled performance that adds more suspense to the story and keeps listeners' attention. L.E. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
      • Publisher's Weekly

        July 13, 2015
        Readers who haven’t read (or haven’t recently reread) 2014’s The Three-Body Problem will feel disoriented at the outset of this sprawling hard SF novel. In the prologue, an ant and a spider overhear Dr. Ye Wenjie, an astrophysicist, suggest to astronomer-turned-sociologist Luo Ji that there are “axioms of cosmic civilization,” a neat variation on Asimov’s psychohistory. This scene epitomizes the book’s biggest flaw: clever ideas lost in often didactic prose. Before the notion of a cosmic sociology can be further developed, Liu shifts gears to present a dialogue between an alien intelligence, the Trisolaris, and the leader of the Earth-Trisolaris Organization, about the distinction between thought and speech. The Trisolarians pose a significant threat to humankind, which triggers very different responses on Earth, ranging from the Escapists, who believe that flight is the only option, to the formation of a Planetary Defense Council. The upbeat ending sets up the concluding volume, but not everyone will have the patience needed to get that far.

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