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The Dark Forest, the Glossary

The Dark Forest is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin.^[1]

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2008 Chinese novels
Novels by Liu Cixin

BBC Studios

BBC Studios Limited is a British content company.

Bilibili

Bilibili (stylized in all lowercase), nicknamed B Site, is a video-sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit, view, and add overlaid commentary on videos.

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Central Academy of Fine Arts

The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA; Chinese: 中央美术学院) is the only institution of higher education for fine arts under the administration of the Ministry of Education of China.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Chinese name

Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world.

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The dark forest hypothesis is the conjecture that many alien civilizations exist throughout the universe, but they are both silent and hostile, maintaining their undetectability for fear of being destroyed by another hostile and undetected civilization.

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Death's End

Death's End is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The Dark Forest and Death's End are fiction about suspended animation, novels about alien invasions and novels by Liu Cixin.

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Drake equation

The Drake equation is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Fermi paradox

The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.

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First contact is a common theme in science fiction about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient species' first encounter with another one, given they are from different planets or natural satellites.

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Fundamental interaction

In physics, the fundamental interactions or fundamental forces are the interactions that do not appear to be reducible to more basic interactions.

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Hard science fiction

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic.

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Headquarters of the United Nations

The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Hobbesian trap

The Hobbesian trap (or Schelling's dilemma) is a theory that explains why preemptive strikes occur between two groups, out of bilateral fear of an imminent attack.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year.

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Japanese name

in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name.

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Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin (pronounced; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer.

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Machinima

Machinima, originally machinema, is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production.

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Mass psychogenic illness

Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for contagion.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios.

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Morse code

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

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Mutual assured destruction

Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

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People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.

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People's Liberation Army Navy

The People's Liberation Army Navy, also known as the People's Navy, PLA Navy or simply Chinese Navy, is the naval warfare branch of the People's Liberation Army, the national military of the People's Republic of China.

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President of Venezuela

The president of Venezuela (Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela.

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Quantum entanglement

Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon of a group of particles being generated, interacting, or sharing spatial proximity in such a way that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance.

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Reactor (magazine)

Reactor, formerly Tor.com, is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers.

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Remembrance of Earth's Past

Remembrance of Earth's Past is a science fiction novel series by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The series is also popularly referred to as Three-Body from part of the title of its first novel, The Three-Body Problem. The series details humanity's discovery of and preparation for an alien invasion force from the planet Trisolaris. The Dark Forest and Remembrance of Earth's Past are 2008 science fiction novels, fiction about suspended animation, novels about alien invasions and novels by Liu Cixin.

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Rendezvous with the Future

Rendezvous with the Future is a documentary series commissioned by Bilibili and produced by BBC Studios which explores the science behind the science fiction of author Liu Cixin.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Space elevator

A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often depicted in science fiction.

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Suspended animation

Suspended animation is the temporary (short- or long-term) slowing or stopping of biological function so that physiological capabilities are preserved.

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The Three-Body Problem (animated TV series)

The Three-Body Problem (l) is a Chinese science fiction animated series based on The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin.

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The Three-Body Problem (novel)

The Three-Body Problem is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. The Dark Forest and the Three-Body Problem (novel) are 2008 Chinese novels, 2008 science fiction novels, novels about alien invasions and novels by Liu Cixin.

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The Three-Body Problem in Minecraft

The Three-Body Problem in Minecraft (l) is a Chinese network animated series based on the science fiction novels The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations General Assembly Building

The United Nations General Assembly Building is part of the headquarters of the United Nations in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a high-ranking member of the federal cabinet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest

Also known as 187J3X1, Luo Ji, Rey Diaz, Wallbreaker, Wallfacer, Wallfacer (science fiction), Zhang Beihai, .

The Dark Forest, the Glossary

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See also

2008 Chinese novels

Novels by Liu Cixin

References