Hard sci-fi, a dark vision & a soft-ish heart – my review of CIXIN LIU’S ‘The Dark Forest’

The first half of Cixin Liu’s novel The Dark Forest (a follow-up to his Hugo Award-winning book The Three Body Problem) is a very good science fiction story. It’s well-written, it begins with an intriguing, ant-centric (you’ll see) prologue, and it gives the over-worked “alien invasion” plot an original twist: what would happen if human beings knew ahead of time … Continue reading →