Will I love The Dark Forest?

A tretise on Chinese philosophy worked from the ancient world , the new China, (and why China can never escape it's past) played in time with the world we live in today. One of the greatest works of (science) fiction I have ever read. Even Clarke, Asimov and other great writers would bow down before this work. Destined to become a Sci-Fi classic.

Multidimensional books tend to focus on either the existence of higher and lower dimensions, or on parallel universes. The Dark Forest (book 3), like my novel, is one of very few that take the string theory approach rather than show parallel universes.

The Three-Body Problem is an epic three-novel series that takes you from the cultural revolution in the ’60s, all the way to…well, the end. There’s a lot of cryogenic freezing to get the main character through time. 

The final theme of the series, introduced in The Dark Forest, is the unfolding and collapsing of dimensions.… show more.

What was Cixin thinking when he plotted the second and third novels in his Three-Body series? “Juggling six different narratives isn’t enough of a challenge. I know: I’ll jump forward in time by 200 years and have a stab at describing what life on Earth could be like.” The result, in The Dark Forest, is a world where hedonism reigns supreme and human beings live in plant-like high-rise structures underground to avoid the scouring sunshine. Death’s End goes one better, imagining a future in which four-dimensional existence is possible….and two-dimensional space is weaponized. In terms of imagination, these two… show more.