The Dark Forest

, #2

par

512 pages

Langue : English

Publié 8 janvier 2015

Numéro OCLC :
908448204

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3 étoiles (4 critiques)

"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The 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. 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 …

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reviewed Temný les by Liu Cixin (Vzpomínka na zemi, #2)

Moc technické, moc "velkolepé"

1 étoile

Druhý díl sci-fi série Vzpomínka na Zemi. První díl (Problém tří těles) mě nadchl, to mě bavilo moc. A ačkoli jsem Temný les začala číst hned potom, už od začátku jsem se ztrácela, vůbec jsem nevěděla, kde / kdy / jak navazujeme, všichni lidi se mi pletli. Bylo to za mě mnohem víc technické než první díl, bylo tam taky mnohem víc dějových linek (nebo mi to tak jen přišlo?). Nevím, mrzí mě to, ale asi zůstanu jen u Problému tří těles.

reviewed The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (Three-Body Trilogy, #2)

Evokes golden age Sci-Fi in some good & a few problematic ways

3 étoiles

I read this novel by accident. I looked it up after hearing about the dark forest hypothesis and I somehow missed the fact that this is the second book in a trilogy. I read the Three-Body Problem few years ago but didn't particularly like it. I found the same faults repeated in this novel too.

This book reads like a story from the science fiction's golden age: it has an interesting sci-fi concept at it's core, and it logically extrapolates from there. Cixin Liu does a really good job at this; at times it feels like Asimov's Foundation. Unlike the previous book, this one takes the plot into the farther future, and Liu gets to flex his creative muscle. The depiction of future cities and spaceships is well thought out and realistic. As a whole this book felt like reading through a game of chess.

Which leads me to the …

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  • Human-alien encounters
  • Imaginary wars and battles
  • Fiction

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