Curb-Stomp Battle: In order to make a statement, Earth deploys thousands of powerful warships to engage the first small Trisolaran probe which enters our Solar System.The Chessmaster: Zhang Beihai who, along with his father, predicts the future development of human society under sophon lockdown and successfully executes a centuries long plot to ensure that at least some humans escape.It turns out that the huge amount of information they gave about their society, development and scientific capabilities in the previous book was because it simply didn't occur to them that it would be prudent to conceal things from the civilisation you're trying to destroy. Cannot Tell a Lie: Played with: the Trisolarans can lie over their communications, but the fact that their thoughts are broadcast to everyone around them in person means that their society and mindset has no experience of doing so.This becomes key to Luo Ji's ultimate plan at the end of the book, when he convinces everyone around him, including the Trisolarans, that he has no way to stop the invasion, and is only working on an ultimately meaningless project in order to escape reality. Beneath Notice: In Shi's lecture to Luo Ji near the start of the book, he identifies this as the foundation of real shrewdness.To everyone's surprise, however, Luo Ji might just discover the thing that can save humanity.Īn animated TV adaptation (under the name The Three-Body Problem) was developed by Chinese entertainment company Yoo Zoo Entertainment. Though the other three are brilliant elites, the fourth is unremarkable professor Luo Ji. In response, the PDC appoints four Wallfacers, whose task is to develop their own secret strategies to defeat the enemy. However, the Trisolarans have already sent subatomic artificial intelligences called sophons that interfere with humanity's progress. In response to the impending Alien Invasion, Earth forms the Planetary Defense Council (PDC) and fasttracks technological development. It is preceded by The Three-Body Problem and followed by Death's End. It was first published in 2008 and translated into English by Joel Martinsen in 2015. The Dark Forest (黑暗森林) is a Science Fiction novel and the second in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin.

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