
The Dark Forest
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Daniel York Loh
About this listen
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
'SF in the grand style' Guardian
'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail
Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2015 Cixin Liu and Joel Martinsen (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.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)
Awesome! Excelent!
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There are some minor production issues. The chapters are extremely long, so moving around within then using the app is very inaccurate. Some small sections of the audio sound like they were added later, with the sound of the narration suddenly changing.
Great story and narration, but summer technical problems.
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I’m now a fan of books
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So much better than the first!!!
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could not keep it down
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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).
Even better than book1
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if you have read
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Parts are off topic
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A must read for all fans of sci-fi!
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the narrator, the translator, the author
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