Highly recommend Bogna Konior’s new text,
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet.
Very much adapts the books to current concerns about AI being an impenetrable alien intelligence— curious if anyone here has read it yet…

From actress’s story.

I’ve read the two first books and i’m willing to watch the shows. but I read somewhere that the netflix series has spoilers of the third book in season 1, so I was wondering if I could watch the original one spoiler free till the point the dark forest stops

edit: thanks everyone! i’ll watch the chinese show and let the netflix one for when i finish the third book

Personally, I can't wait for the scene where Saul Durand explains the dark forest theory, that whole ''the universe is a dark forest and every civilization is an armed hunter'' sequence. I get chills down my spine.

Source: https://www.budapestreporter.com/3-body-problem-budapest-stock-exchange-palace/

I didn’t think that part of the book would make it into the show…

That's how much distance Will's brain have been travelled since the last episode aired. Will Will reach random alien civilization before next season launch or what ?? Calculation based on 79.9km / second speed when anomaly happened ..

Given that the TBP season 2 trailer hasn't come out yet, is it possible that they're witholding it until thanksgiving on the 26th of november? I know some games and shows aim for a release on holidays to maximize watchtime/copies sold, but does this also include trailers? If people are more likely to be watching the TV in a given day, then maybe that's the play here? This would also coincide with the recent announcement made by one of the actors that something is "coming out at the end of November"

I just finished the series and I have a burning question. I can't have been the only one who thought about this but I was extremely surprised that this wasn't where the story was going at first.

In the second book, Luo Ji woke from hibernation to a completely transformed society where the whole world was confident they were equals to the trisolarans (prior to the droplet attack). However it was so clear that humanity had not caught up in theoretical physics and the sophon block was still at play. I was SO sure that this was because Bill Hines' mental seal did work on a mass scale, but instead of making everyone hopeful that they would win the war, it made everyone overconfident that they would, no matter the evidence. This would explain why humanity was in a state of delusion, and I fully expected the droplet attack to reveal this and cause humanity to go into global panic mode (similar to the waterphobic test patients).

Is this a common alternative plot that's been discussed or did I miss something along the way?

I just finished my re-read of the trilogy. At the end of Death's End, while they're in Universe 647, it's mentioned how they receive transmissions from greater universes from the super-membrane. This would imply either a multiverse theory, or something akin to it.

I'm confused about the implications.

Is there a singular, "Grand Universe"? One which contains ALL universes across this super-membrane?

OR

Are there many greater universes that may or may not be disconnected from each other?

For example: when the Returners send their message concerning the missing matter required to get a Big Crunch, is this applying to some Grand Universe that affects every single possible universe, or just the greater universe that our characters are from?

I hope my confusion makes sense. If not, I can elaborate.

EDIT: There a few lines, but this is the one that I am mostly thinking about:

Universe 647's monitoring systems regularly intercepted natural phenomena and undecoded signals from other external universes on the supermembrane, though they never received communications from their own original universe.

In the Netflix show, when Wade and Clarence observed the universe winking, Wade told Clarence, "This, Clarence, is our enemy." Who was Wade referring to? At that point, he didn't know about the alien invasion. Did he already suspect that was what was happening?

Planet with an unstable orbit discovered.

From Jovan’s story just now, seems like he’s still in Budapest.

Glad they’re getting the wall facers ready to go.

started re-reading Dark Forest and there's this one storyline about a recent retiree adjusting to life in an apartment community. his name is Zhang Yuanchao and i can't remember if he's related to the great Zhang Beihai.

i didn't think Chinese had so few surnames that an author would need to use the same one for multiple characters back-to-back. but Zhang Beihai retired from having worked in a factory and he's about 60 years old, so he can't be Beihai's father, who was a general.

We haven't gotten any new information on it at all. No trailer. No release date. And it's November. The last information we got about it said it was coming in late 2026. I'm just assuming they're abandoning the series and hoping no one notices. Not even going to bother checking for updates about it ever again.

It's a shame because I was going to turn my Netflix subscription back on just for this show.

Nevermind, I guess.

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I personally was fascinated by the mention of Sophons living quarters on Earth being shrouded in mist all the time. In my head now I like to think that during stable livable times, trisolaris was an incredibly humid planet.

Perhaps most of life there even flourished underground where such stable and humid conditions might have persisted slightly longer than on the surface.

Did you find yourself latch on to anything in particular mentioned in the books that helped you visualize anything about trisolaris?