The Dark Forest is, in many ways, a mystery novel, but with many mysteries to untangle. But for some reason, the Trisolarans want him dead… He has no idea why he was chosen and no idea how to save the world.
Two of the Wallfacers are military leaders and one a brilliant scientist, but the fourth is an unknown Chinese astronomer, Luo Ji, with no major accomplishments to his name. The United Nations chooses four people to be the Wallfacers–people who will invent secret plans in the privacy of their minds to fight the Trisolarans and will be given great resources to carry them out. Humanity has but one advantage: the Trisolarans are telepathic, and that means they don’t understand secrecy and deception. The bad news is that they’ve sent sophons–artificial intelligences imprinted on subatomic particles–to interfere with our scientific experiments and stop our technological progress. The alien fleet will not arrive for 400 years. But this isn’t the kind of invasion we normally see in fiction.
The Trisolarans, technologically advanced beings from a dying planet around Alpha Centauri, have sent an invasion fleet to conquer Earth and wipe out the human race. The English translation came out last year, and I’ve finally had time to read it. This is the second book in Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy, the bestselling science fiction saga in China. The Dark Forest is the sequel to the The Three-Body Problem, which I reviewed previously.
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