The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest covers the depressing period between first contact with the Trisolaran civilization and their arrival to wipe out all human life with their superior technology. As in the first novel, the characters are not especially engaging, and the ideas are what hold the reader's attention. This time, the story begins to move into the far future, imagining how technology would develop and how humans would cope with the long-term threat of eradication by a superior force. I enjoyed seeing the clever ways humanity tried to grapple with this problem, but the story had a bleakness that was a little overpowering at times.

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