The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
“Sure. I’ve got one right here on my laptop.” “Then get it out and let’s draw!” Shi Qiang stretched out on the sofa and situated himself comfortably. “Not necessary. You don’t need to draw her. Just keep talking. Put aside her appearance, and first talk about what sort of person she is.”
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
The conversation quickly turned to the history of the past two centuries. “So what was the deal with the Great Ravine?” Luo Ji brought up the question he had long been wanting to ask. Instantly their faces grew serious. Seeing that the meal was almost over, Shi Xiaoming allowed the topic to continue.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
“Hibernating for a few years in a metal coffin, then waking up, only to launch a suicide attack. Clearly, the job of a mosquito pilot is not one to be envied,” Hines said. Tyler’s enthusiasm disappeared, and he remained silent for a moment. Then he nodded. “Yes. Finding pilots is the hardest part of the mosquito swarm plan.” Details of Tyler’s plan
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The UN PDC Wallfacer Project Hearing deliberated the stellar hydrogen bomb test. The giant breakthrough in computing technology meant that computers were at last capable of handling the theoretical stellar model of a nuclear explosion developed over the past decade, and the manufacture of large-yield stellar hydrogen bombs could begin forthwith. Th
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The nurse said to him, “The people from your time are all pretty despairing. But things aren’t really all that serious.” To Luo Ji, this was the voice of an angel. He felt like he had turned into a child who had just awakened from a nightmare, and all the frightening things he had experienced were taken care of by a smile from an adult. When she sp
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“Why build the city below ground? And a thousand meters—that’s really deep.” “For the war, of course. Think about it. When the Doomsday Battle comes, won’t the surface be an ocean of fire? Yeah, that battle is another outdated idea now, but when the Great Ravine ended, all the world’s cities developed underground.” “So all the cites in the world ar
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Chang Weisi said, “Comrade Zhang Beihai has posed at least one question worthy of attention: The military and scientific communities are all busy starting their own work, but there is insufficient communication among them.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Katherine loves me. She has never and will never have an affair!
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
The years passed, until finally, when you had just awakened and walked through the neural-network cloud to my side, and I looked into your eyes, I finally understood. I’d matured eight years, while you were still the you of eight years before. And so you were exposed. “From that moment, I knew the real you: a deep-rooted defeatist and a staunch Esc
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