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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 |
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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]
- ^ Liu, Cixin (7 May 2014). "The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three Body and Chinese Science Fiction". Tor.com. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
- ^ Yu, C. (1 January 2015). "The Dark Forest Rule: One Solution to the Fermi Paradox". Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 68: 142–144. Bibcode:2015JBIS...68..142Y. ISSN 0007-084X. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ Williams, Matt (7 January 2021). "Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XVI: What is the "Dark Forest" Hypothesis?". Universe Today. Retrieved 18 October 2022.