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The Dark Forest

Written by: Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen - translator
Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
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Bloomsbury presents The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, read by Daniel York Loh.

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be 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 First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction
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Critic Reviews

A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology (George R.R. Martin)
Wildly imaginative, really interesting... The scope of it was immense (Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States)
A milestone in Chinese science fiction
Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel
China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke
The Three Body epic concludes with sweep and scope and majesty, worthy of Frederik Pohl or Poul Anderson, Scholar Wu or H.G. Wells. The universe is likely to be a rough neighborhood. See just how rough... and how life might still prevail (David Brin)
This is a series that I will always have on my book shelves because of the pleasure it gives to revisit it... Credit is also due to the translator, the extraordinary Ken Liu, for creating a read which enables all the high level concepts to weld with the ongoing epic story'
Complex and grandiose... this is a mind-altering and immersive experience'
The grand scale continues in this third volume... There are many layers to this story, built up and woven together to form an extraordinarily grand tale of mankind's future. This volume brings the trilogy to a grand and satisfying conclusion'
Cixin's trilogy is SF in the grand style, a galaxy-spanning, ideas-rich narrative of invasion and war between humanity and the alien 'Trisolarians'
Even what doesn't happen is epic
The narrative and conceptual momentum of the series takes off at a scale and velocity I couldn't possibly have imagined before reading. The Three-Body trilogy makes insignificance and unknowability and futility seem so spiritually exciting that I felt breathless. I'd join a book club that just discusses it every month for a year
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Enjoyed thoroughly. Can’t wait to read the 3rd book now. The TV series will have it’s own adaptations of course, but reading the book is definitely worth it for many reasons.

Pure science fiction

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Excellent story. Must try once. The ending was very interesting. Slow at places but definitely worth a try.

Excellent story

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So much science fictions details but great story telling. recommend anyone who had watched the three body problem to listen or read this, the 2nd season would be much more fun

Just brilliant

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A phenomenal book that takes a very different look at interplanetary relations. A must-read for sci-fi fans of all kinds.

Not what I'd expected.

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Definitely very intelligent, and a worthy continuation of the first part. Cixin liu is a master of making science fiction implementation feel like part of every day lives with too much ease. And weaves personal aspects and emotions of people into the story even better.

The only drawback is that this one does start to feel it’s length in the middle, slow and monotonous. But hang in there and the ending makes up for it (some aspects do look like a bit exaggerated unlike the first one though)

Will definitely read the third one too.

A good continuation, very smart and great ending (despite feeling slow at times)

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