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The Dark Forest
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
Listen to the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon.
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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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)
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- Rick
- 17-02-24
Even better than book1
I read this book after book 3 by mistake but have still enjoyed it.
Rich in detail, grand in scale.
Makes you think about what makes the universe work and our place on it and explores the nature of humanity: heroism and love through to the primitive raw survival fears and the evil we are capable of.
No wonder Netflix will pick this trilogy up!
Not sure how they will produce something better than the books.
Until then, it will be a secret amongst certain friends who have read it and a certain type of person to whom I recommend it.
All with whom I discuss it, say the first book (Three Body Problem) is great and somehow 2 (Dark Forest) and 3 (End of Death) are even better. I agree.
One other note: for English speakers, Chinese names can be difficult and so I downloaded the pdf companion for each book and regularly had to check it. It really helps with audio books where you cannot search back in the text for a name you confused with another person. (Same with the characters in Russian novels and history).
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- Miriam Maina
- 13-03-24
A must read for all fans of sci-fi!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! so many intriguing ideas about humanity's future in light of a galactic civilization.
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- Steve
- 14-06-24
if you have read
Three Body Problem you're only part way there. You have to read this next part, the story continues.
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- GadgetMaven
- 20-04-24
A thought provoking book
The second in the series continues the story of the three body problem and draws you in further into the mysteries of first contact. The use of Chinese names was a bit of a problem for me as a non speaker, as there is little character development in the book making it difficult to follow sone of the plot. However overall a very thought provoking book.
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- renezenda
- 17-04-24
the narrator, the translator, the author
an amazing combination bringing to life a binge worthy concoction that is addictive as it is enjoyable!
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- Out of rage
- 21-04-24
Book 2 ups the pace considerably and the plot lines are fantastic!
Can’t wait for this to be turned into a tv series. The detail I. This book will provide a rich palette to draw on.
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- Mr. Gerald B. Van Poll
- 04-05-24
Unique storytelling
I thought no one could tell better stories than Asimov - well it appears I was wrong.
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- Sumaki
- 14-04-24
Amazing story arcs
I thought this was a very unique story. I love post apocalyptic science fiction and these stories are very original, kept me captivated.
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- Saudjie
- 11-05-24
The Netflix Series
I’ve seen the first season of the Netflix series and it is nothing like the book. It was captivating but upon reading the book I found out they have not much in common.
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- Dr Suresh Naidu
- 19-05-24
The story
The performance of audio book can made more sensible by using different person to voice over. Sometimes the audio delivery was such that it is difficult to differentiate between the character and narration
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