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This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.
In The 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.
'This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the
ground floor while you still can' Esquire Imagine a universe
patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might
happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location.
This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY. Weaving a complex
web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light
years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of
humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of
unprecedented scale and momentum. Available now in a single volume,
including: 1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM 2 THE DARK FOREST 3 DEATH'S END
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-selling
phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators
of Game of Thrones. Reviews for Cixin Liu: 'A milestone' New York
Times 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the
grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail
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The Dark Forest (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen
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Ball Lightning (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen
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'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the
quantum age' NPR 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite
sci-fi novel' WIRED Eight years ago and eight light years away, a
supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy
will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new
star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age
of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged.
And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and
try to pass on the knowledge they'll need to keep the world
running. But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy
of their parents' world. And though they imagine a better, brighter
future, they may not be able to escape humanity's dark instincts...
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Supernova Era (Paperback)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen
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'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED
On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents
are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make
sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single
goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon.
His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across
mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified
subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in
particle physics. Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely
life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in
his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and
governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place
for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army
major obsessed with new ways to wage war; a desperate nation facing
certain military defeat. Conjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of
cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation,
Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled
readers of Cixin Liu's award-winning Three-Body trilogy. Praise for
Cixin Liu: '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 'A milestone in
Chinese science-fiction' New York Times 'China's answer to Arthur
C. Clarke' New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best
Novel
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The Dark Forest (Hardcover)
Cixin Liu; Translated by Joel Martinsen
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