Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators.
All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead..
Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status.
Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown.
This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike.
Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.
But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here.
Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time.
Now the predators are coming.
Earth has.
In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.
Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators
