The Dark Forest

...his Wallbreaker. Everyone listens. Keiko explains that Hines was and always has been a staunch defeatist and escapist. She says the mental seal wasn’t just a chance byproduct of his research—it... (full context)

...the imprinting machines and destroy them. They wonder if people have continued being imprinted with defeatist beliefs. Someone brings up the possibility that there might be an organization made up of... (full context)

...carry out a special mission. He explains that following news about Hines’s imprinting people with defeatist attitudes, they now must try to ferret out any defeatists among their ranks and prevent... (full context)

...hands Zhang Beihai a pistol and says that if he finds that she is a defeatist or escapist, then he should use it to kill her. (full context)

...Beihai what he is doing. Dongfang Yanxu asks him if he’s has been imprinted with defeatist ideas or whether he is ETO. He says neither is the case. He then tells... (full context)

...person on the other end of the line says that that makes Zhang Beihai a defeatist and escapist. (full context)