The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
It was midnight by the time the repair truck arrived from Shijiazhuang. The repairmen were surprised to find him sitting beside a fire. “Sir, you’ve gotta be freezing. The engine’s not busted. Wouldn’t it…
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Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
One thing in particular that struck him was the total absence of landscapes, the mark of a mature aesthetic sensibility: hanging landscape paintings in a house situated in the Garden of Eden would be as…
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After he left, Luo Ji asked Kent where Shi Qiang was. “He’s handed over your security detail and has probably returned home.” “Let him take the place of that guy just now. I think he’ll do a better job.” “I feel the same way, but he doesn’t speak English. It would be hard for him to do his job.” “Then bring in Chinese guards to replace the ones her
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“Very well. Let’s talk about the water now. In the Doomsday Battle, the ETO-controlled mosquito fleet would likely launch a sneak attack on Earth’s fleet and then flee to the Lord’s fleet. Because they had just demonstrated their disloyalty to earth, Trisolaris might be willing to let them join the fleet, but the Lord would not be so fast to accept
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He remembered back to middle school and a lesson a teacher had taught him for language arts exams: First, take a look at the final essay question, then start the exam from the top, so that as you work on the exam, your subconscious will be thinking over the essay question, like a background process in a computer. Now he knew that from the moment he
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Although they said they would meet again, everyone knew in their hearts that this was a final farewell. When the Special Contingent of Future Reinforcements headed to the hibernation center, Chang Weisi and a number of other senior space force generals came to the airport to see them off. He handed a letter to Zhang Beihai. “This letter is for my f
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“Apart from this one belief, the rest of the mind would of course be entirely autonomous. We would just be performing a tiny intervention in the mind, using technology to leapfrog thought to implant a conclusion—just one alone—into the mind.” “But one is enough. Technology is now capable of modifying thoughts just like modifying a computer program.
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However, Rey Diaz chose differently. “I’ve decided to conduct the tests…
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After leaving her second term in office, Secretary General Say launched the Human Memorial Project, whose goal was the comprehensive collection of data and commemorative artifacts of human civilization that would ultimately be sent out into the cosmos on unmanned spacecraft. The project’s most influential component was called the Human Diary, a Web
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