Liu Cixin's 2008 Chinese science fiction novel (2014 English translation by Ken Liu) — the first in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy — beginning during the Cultural Revolution and expanding to first contact with an alien civilization on an unstable three-sun system.
Creates the Dark Forest theory — Liu's argument that any intelligent civilization that reveals its location in the universe will be destroyed by other civilizations (because the universe is zero-sum for resources and communication is asymmetric) is the most original solution to the Fermi paradox in decades.
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