

All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead. Once again, a highly impressive must-read. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. The plot’s development centers on Liu’s dark and rather gloomy but highly persuasive philosophy, with dazzling ideas and an unsettling, nonlinear, almost nonnarrative structure that demands patience but offers huge rewards. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Only the individual human mind remains immune to the sophons. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional emissaries, are already here and have infiltrated human society and and de-railed scientific progress.

The Trisolarian fleet has left their homeworld and will arrive. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. In this forest, others are hell, a dire existential threat. The universe is a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators.
