The Dark Forest

This is such a good series. The book has a very strong sense of unity. It all ties together very neatly, and it’s incredibly satisfying to watch all the pieces come together. This is also a sci-fi series that I can easily find believable. The concepts are definitely beyond the scope of present technology, but you can follow the fundamental logic without losing your grip on the story.

Filled with action, suspense, love, mystery, and just plain beautiful writing. And there’s still two more book for me to read, one written by Liu Cixin and another written as fanfic that was then endorsed by Liu.

The dark forest extrapolation, or the analysis of cosmic sociology, is very heavy. I don’t want to speak too much on it as it’s somewhat of a spoiler, but I found it chilling. It makes sense, to me. So maybe instead of trying to go to Mars, and instead of beaming signals and probes into space, maybe we should be building a cloak to hide Earth, and fix this place up for the long run. While staying as quiet as possible.