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