The Dark Forest（暗黒森林）by Cixin Liu
日本語
三体シリーズの第二巻、"The Dark Forest (暗黒森林)"。
凄い本です。とても一人で書いているとは思えない内容です。
序盤は文学的な雰囲気が色濃く、前作から印象が大きく違うなと感じていたのですが、そこから怒涛の展開です。
まずは破格のスケールで繰り広げられる頭脳戦、そしてこれぞ SF と思わせる圧倒的な展開で迎える物語の後半。
本を読んだ！という満足感でいっぱいです。
English
"The Dark Forest" authored by Cixin Liu is the sequel to "The Three-Body Problem (三体)", which is the first volume of The Three-Body Problem trilogy.
Even though I gave five stars to "The Three-Body Problem" on Goodreads, the actual score according to my impression was probably around 4.5 (I just round it up).
This book, however, was totally different!!
I still cannot believe the author created this story teemed with extremly complicated plots and scientific materials all by himself.
Having read "The Three-Body Problem", I've got an impression of literature from the first part of this book, which of course still gives readers full of entertainment and suprizes.
Next as I read through the book to the middle part of book, I was totally baffled about how the story had turned into a battle of mind, reminding me of "Death Note".
What's coming next?
A wholly new world.
Let me just leave the rest of the story veiled for your delectation...
I highly recommend this book from bottom of my heart.
A quote I liked from "The Dark Forest":
We'll never be able to learn the stuff he brought from two century ago, but he can learn what we know.
