{"product_id":"the-dark-forest-cixin-liu","title":"The Dark Forest (Cixin Liu)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarth has. Now the predators are coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 human and alien alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCixin Liu\u003c\/b\u003e is China's #1 SF writer and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Three-Body Problem\u003c\/i\u003e - the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.\n\u003cb\u003eJoel Martinsen\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Forest\u003c\/i\u003e by Cixin Liu and (with Alice Xin Liu) of \u003ci\u003eThe Problem With Me\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essays by Han Han. His translations of short fiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePathlight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChutzpah\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Beijing.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 560 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65901346423133,"sku":"K057358857","price":12.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/5735885700001A.jpg?v=1789206032","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-dark-forest-cixin-liu","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}