Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. In this forest, others are hell, a dire existential threat. The universe is a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. The scope of it was immense' Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States. 'A milestone in Chinese science fiction' New York Times. 'A marvellous melange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters, all conveyed in in a plain style capable of signalling hidden depths' The Times. 'The best kind of science fiction' Kim Stanley Robinson. Cixin stands at the top tier of speculative fiction in any language' David Brin. 'Vivid, imaginative and rooted in cutting-edge science. I have no doubt that when this trilogy is complete we will have a masterpiece on our hands' For Winters Nights. I await the conclusion, Death's End, in the spring with enormous anticipation. To call the vision grand and ambitious seems a ridiculous understatement. Emotion and science brilliantly co-exist. The depth of feeling here is extraordinary.

it's bursting with character and ingenuity' Starburst magazine. 'Hauntingly gentle in its delivery and gorgeous in its own wondrous atmosphere, The Dark Forest is a quiet slice of lovely science fiction. 'Chinese SF has been neglected in the wider world for far too long' Interzone. a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology, where kings and emperors from both western and Chinese history mingle in a dreamlike game world, while cops and physicists deal with global conspiracies, murders, and alien invasions in the real world' George RR Martin. ' the works of fiction I am most enthusiastic about' Bloomberg. 'Even what doesn't happen is epic' London Review of Books.

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