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Author | Liu Cixin |
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Original title | 黑暗森林 |
Translator | Joel Martinsen |
Language | Chinese |
Series | Remembrance of Earth's Past |
Genre | Science fiction, Hard science fiction |
Publication date | 2008 |
Publication place | China |
Pages | 400 |
ISBN | 978-1784971595 |
Preceded by | The Three-Body Problem |
Followed by | Death's End |
The Dark Forest | |||||||||||||||||
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Chinese | 黑暗森林 | ||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | dark forest | ||||||||||||||||
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The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, but Chinese readers generally refer to the series by the title of the first novel.[1] The English version, translated by Joel Martinsen, was published in 2015. The novel is about the dark forest hypothesis (which was named after the novel),[2] a possible solution to the Fermi paradox, though similar theories have been described as early as 1983.[3]