A review by bobwoco
The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu

3.0

5 star plot/premise and themes/emotional resonance, but 1 star treatment of women (infantalizing, fridging, them just barely existing) leads to 3 stars overall. if the women in this novel were treated the same as the men (not a high bar! there isn't particularly great characterization here, but there doesn't need to be for the novel to work), this would be an easy five stars, a deeply affecting novel.