{"id":17949,"date":"2021-07-07T20:13:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17949"},"modified":"2021-07-07T20:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:13:49","slug":"the-dark-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-dark-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Once the Wallfacer mission and identity were granted, they could not be refused or abandoned. This impossibility was not due to any individual&#8217;s coercion but because cold logic, as determined by the project&#8217;s very nature, meant that once someone became a Wallfacer, an invisible and impenetrable screen was immediately thrown up between them and ordinary people that made their every action significant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dark Forest<\/strong> by Cixin Liu, published in 2008<\/p>\n<p>The Trisolarans&#8217; fleet is on its way to Earth to destroy humanity, but it will take 340 years to arrive. Humans are already preparing for war &#8212; starting the decades-long process of constructing their own space fleet. Meanwhile, members of the Earth-Trisolaris Organization work with the Trisolarans in order to defeat humanity. Meanwhile, other people think humanity should construct colony ships rather than war ships so some people can escape.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/the-three-body-problem\/\"><strong>The Three-Body Problem<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about technological progress, preparing for war, and how humanity&#8217;s attitudes can change over time.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of the Wallfacers is intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 2 books by Liu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Once the Wallfacer mission and identity were granted, they could not be refused or abandoned. This impossibility was not due to any individual&#8217;s coercion but because cold logic, as determined by the project&#8217;s very nature, meant that once someone became a Wallfacer, an invisible and impenetrable screen was immediately thrown up between them and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-17949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17951,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions\/17951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}