The Dark Forest
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The Dark Forest
The Dark Forest
The second installment of China’s best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy.
The second installment of China’s best-selling apocalyptic space opera trilogy.
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Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – now a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
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, the Trisolarians 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.
Praise for The Three-Body Problem:
'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' - Wired
'Immense' - Barack Obama
'Unique' - George R.R. Martin
'SF in the grand style' - Guardian
'Mind-altering and immersive' - Daily Mail
Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel
Series: The Three-Body Problem
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035920891
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 November 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book
Contributors:
- Translated by Joel Martinsen
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 50.0mm
Width: 158.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 757g
Pages: 560
About the Author
Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem – the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.
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