The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
“Hiding the self through a faithful mapping of the universe is the only path into eternity.”
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
Luo Ji couldn’t shake a certain discomfort, like he had swallowed a fly.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
“The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
But it wasn ’t a language of this world. It constructed a world that gave it meaning, and only in that rosy world did the words of the language find their corresponding referents.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
“You mean, ‘If I don’t go to hell, who will?’*5 Is that it?”