Ediciones B / Nova 2017

The Dark Forest is the unsettling sequel to The Three-Body Problem, the Chinese publishing phenomenon that won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Its author, Cixin Liu, is China’s most prominent science fiction writer, capable of selling four million copies in his country and dazzling readers and critics across five continents.

Welcome to a masterful story about humanity’s tense wait in the face of a looming alien invasion. In The Dark Forest, Earth has four centuries to prepare for the inevitable: the arrival of the Trisolarans. Human collaborators may have been defeated, but the sophons allow the aliens to access all human information, exposing every defense strategy. Only the human mind remains secret—and now also the key to the urgent plan devised by three statesmen, a scientist, and a sociologist.

Its sharp depiction of geopolitical maneuvering among the world’s great powers, its analysis of science’s possibilities, and its thriller-like plot have been praised by figures such as Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg.

“One of the great publishing phenomena of the season.” — ABC

“Incredibly imaginative, really interesting.” — Barack Obama

“A discovery. A unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory, and cosmology.” — George R. R. Martin

“A fun respite from all those books on economics and social science I’ve been reading lately.” — Mark Zuckerberg

“Commonplaces but made strange, exotic déjà vu with surprises that resemble neither anyone nor anything.” — Babelia

“Over a thousand pages of guaranteed metaphysical vertigo.” — El Mundo

“The novel that introduced Chinese science fiction to the world.” — El Periódico de Catalunya