The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

by Liu Cixin

“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost,

In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It’s the explanation for the Fermi Paradox.”

Now he saw only the stars and the headstones, the two greatest symbols of eternity.