The Dark Forest
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The Dark Forest is a 2008 science fiction novel by Liu Cixin. It is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem in the Remembrance of Earth's Past. The English version, translate
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Dark forest hypothesis
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The dark forest hypothesis is the idea that extraterrestrial civilizations may exist in abundance across the universe, but remain silent and hidden out of fear that revealing themselves would lead to
The Dark Forest
…2015. The novel revolves around humanity's attempts to construct a defence against an impending invasion fleet from an alien planet. It explores the dark forest hypothesis (so-named after the novel), a possible solution to the Fermi paradox, though similar theories have been described as early as 1983. Following the events…
Black Forest pictured in darkness, the concept from which the novel took its name