The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu

\n \nTime is running out for humanity in The Dark Forest, the stunning sequel to Cixin Liu's award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three-Body Problem. \n \nEarth is still reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion. \n \nThe 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. \n \nThis is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four people enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. \n \nThree 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.\n \n \nThe Dark Forest continues Cixin Liu's ground-breaking saga of incredible scope and vision.\n \nThe War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder. \n --The Wall Street Journal\n \n A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller. --NPR \n \n \nThe Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy \nThe Three-Body Problem \nThe Dark Forest \nDeath's End\n \nOther Books \nBall Lightning (forthcoming)\n