The Dark Forest
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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 Remembrance of Earth's Past. The English version, translated by Joel Martinsen, was published in 2015.
The novel revolves around humanity's attempts to construct a defence against an impending invasion fleet from an alien planet. It explores the dark forest hypothesis (so-named after the novel), a possible solution to the Fermi paradox, though similar theories have been described as early as 1983.