They are to spy on Tyler, Rey Diaz, and Hines respectively, to discover and ruin their strategies. In retaliation, Trisolaris appoints three ETO members to be Wallbreakers. The story reveals that Luo was chosen because Trisolaris, for unknown reasons, sees him as a threat, and ordered the Earth-Trisolaris Organization (ETO) to assassinate him. To general surprise, the fourth Wallfacer is announced to be Luo Ji, an obscure Chinese professor of sociology who is lazy and un-ambitious. Three Wallfacers are chosen on the basis of merit: Frederick Tyler, a former United States Secretary of Defense Manuel Rey Diaz, former president of Venezuela and a nuclear engineer and Bill Hines, former president of the EU and a neuroscientist. As a result, this also requires them to misdirect and deceive the human world they therefore do not need to give any explanation for their actions and commands, no matter how incomprehensible they may be. ![]() They are granted access to the resources of the UN and shall develop and direct strategic plans only known to themselves in order to keep them secret from the enemy. ![]() Since the sophons cannot read minds, the PDC decides that, in addition to regular military expansion, there will be four people appointed as Wallfacers. However, subatomic semi-artificial intelligences sent from Trisolaris (the book's name for the three-star system of Alpha Centauri), known as sophons, have already reached Earth these conduct surveillance of national secrets and private conversations, and disrupt the operation of particle accelerators in order to obstruct any new discoveries in fundamental physics until the fleet arrives. The UN forms the Planetary Defense Council (PDC) to coordinate defensive efforts against the impending assault of the Trisolarans, who have launched a massive invasion fleet that will reach Earth in around 400 years. The novel's title comes from the dark forest hypothesis, coined by Liu in the novel, but described by astronomer and author David Brin as early as 1983, by Stanisław Lem in "The New Cosmogony" (from his book A Perfect Vacuum, 1971) as a possible solution to the Fermi paradox and by Greg Bear in 1987 in his novel The Forge of God. The English version, translated by Joel Martinsen, was published in 2015. It is the sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, but Chinese readers generally refer to the series by the title of the first novel. ![]() The Dark Forest ( Chinese: 黑暗森林) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin.
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