Paperback, 550 pages

English language

Published Aug. 1, 2016 by Head of Zeus.

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978-1-78497-161-8
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4 stars (7 reviews)

This is the second novel in the "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" near-future trilogy. Written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion—four centuries in the future. The aliens' human collaborators 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 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 sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's …

9 editions

Beaucoup de longueurs, une structure du roman trop linéaire et une écriture vraiment aride m’ont empêché de vraiment apprécier ma lecture

3 stars

J’ai lu le premier tome en 2021… mais il faut croire que je n’étais pas pressé de lire la suite puisque je viens seulement de m’y atteler (et de me rendre compte que je n’avais pas rédigé de billet sur le tome 1, oubli réparé hier). Ce qui m’a sans doute convaincu de reprendre la trilogie, c’est l’adaptation Netflix du Problème à trois corps (adaptation très libre mais que j’ai vraiment bien aimé).

Ce 2e volume du Problème à trois corps se passe juste après la découverte de l’arrivée de la flotte trisolarienne venue envahir la Terre, et couvre les 4 siècles qui vont s’écouler avant leur arrivée. Faut-il se battre, sans espoir de victoire ? S’enfuir ? Mais qui partirait ? Qui resterait ? Vivre comme si ne rien n’était car pourquoi s’inquiéter de ce qui pourrait arriver dans quatre siècles ?

Les trisolariens ont un avance technologique majeure, …

Continuación de El problema de los tres cuerpos

3 stars

La historia parece centrarse en ésta ocasión en los vallados, tres hombres con plena libertad para planificar la defensa de la tierra ante la futura llegada de los extraterrestres invasores, que ocurrirá dentro de 400 años. el comienzo me está gustando, cuando lo termine actualizaré la reseña.

Wow

5 stars

This book is in a lot of ways more of everything that Three Body Problem was. It's a huger sweep, a pretty intense exploration of how getting thrown into responsibility can break people, and it builds on a lot of the ideas of the first book about how ununified people would be in response to a threat like this - stuff that now looks rather prescient after a year and a half of covid. It does also suffer from the same weaknesses, perhaps even intensified. In particular there's not much dialogue that is really characters being theirselves as opposed to Liu exploring an idea through his characters. But the good parts were so compelling that this was far from ruining the book for me.

I was left with a few questions, two of which seem like weaknesses of the book: 1) Why did Ye pick Luo to have the conversation …