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Chapter 220, Galactic Empire

In terms of subdivision, there are many writing directions for science fiction.

For example, the world exploration category can be to explore the planet where human beings live, or to explore the universe;

For example, stories between civilizations, scientific and technological exchanges or wars between the earth and alien civilizations;

For example, the future world or even the parallel world;

Such as the doomsday wasteland, the re-establishment of civilization;

Another example is time travel, space-time paradoxes and so on.

Among the many genres subdivided into science fiction, robot science fiction is a very common writing direction.

There are countless sci-fi novels with robots as the core writing objects, and there are many excellent works no matter on Earth or Blue Star.

Especially Blue Star at the moment.

The use of robotics is already widespread.

Don't say far.

There are many high-end restaurants and several Yu Dynasty hotels under the name of Sun Yaohuo alone, and there are signs of a large number of robots replacing human labor.

Like giving something to a customer.

The robot can already complete the task easily according to the pre-set program instructions. .

This is just the most basic function of the robot.

With the advent of the intelligent age, some robots with more powerful functions also exist, but they have not yet entered thousands of households.

In such a case.

Science fiction with robots as the theme has always been quite popular in Bluestar.

This is also the reason why Weizhou science fiction writer Fan Chong chose robots as the theme of his new science fiction book.

Fan Chong also specially introduced his new book:

Although his new book is long, the story is connected by six stories, which are related to each other but have different themes.

just now.

Lin Yuan also decided to write about robots!

Come out!

Galactic Empire!

Lin Yuan's hands were fast, and the moment the thought came into being, the four characters "Galaxy Empire" appeared on the computer screen!

……

That's right.

Lin Yuan's new book decided to write Isaac Asimov's "Galaxy Empire"!

We said it before.

Keigo Higashino is an all-round genius writer. The subject matter of his works is reasoning, but the subject matter involved in his creation is not only reasoning.

Really awesome.

However, what is trivial is that compared with Asimov, the author of "Galaxy Empire", the scope and influence of Keigo Higashino's works are actually insignificant.

Yes.

Asimov is a truly omniscient and omnipotent writer. He has written more than 500 books in his life. He has waited several times for his works, and he actually dabbles in all the directories under the book classification. His works cover almost everything in human life. aspect!

Up and down the sea;

Throughout the ages;

Everything from dinosaurs to subatoms to the vast universe;

From popular novels to the history of the Roman Empire, from popular science books to the thousand-year history of the Far East, from Bible guides to scientific guides.

Each of his works is simple and rigorous but full of humorous style.

In order to give full play to his witty and funny talent, he even wrote a "Collection of Jokes".

Also because of this.

Asimov was hailed by readers as a "god-like man"!

The most outrageous are:

Asimov even wrote the H text——

In his later years, he published a series of works on gender topics.

However, no matter how many subjects he covers, a writer always has a direction that he is best at.

Asimov is one of the greatest science fiction writers in history, and his representative works are the "Galaxy Empire" series.

This is a milestone in the history of science fiction on Earth!

Outline of the book:

With the help of robots, human beings quickly mastered the technology of transforming alien planets and started a grand movement of interstellar colonization.

Humans multiply and expand in the Milky Way like locusts. With their indelible ignorance and wisdom, greed and conscience, they landed on desolate planets one after another, and dragged the Milky Way into a long era of interstellar warring states until the entire Milky Way was unified.

finally.

The rise of a huge empire that rules more than 2500 million inhabited planets, spans [-] light-years, and has a population of trillions——

Galactic Empire!

Public opinion generally believes that the Hollywood Star Wars series borrowed the idea of ​​"Galaxy Empire", of course, the film studio does not recognize it.

Same goes for Hollywood.

Public opinion believes that "Avatar", the highest-grossing movie in history, plagiarized the idea of ​​this book, and of course Cameron also disagrees.

Krugman, the [-] Nobel Laureate in Economics, admitted:

His economic theory was inspired by Galactic Empire.

In addition, Yoshiki Tanaka's "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" is also a tribute to the Galactic Empire series.

There are also Nishio Restoration's works and so on.

Also.

The British "Guardian" reported:

Based on the base chapter of the Galactic Empire series, Ben Ladeng established the terrorist organization of the same name——

base.

In short, since the publication of this book for more than half a century, it has had a profound impact on human space exploration, world situation, cutting-edge economic theory, and Hollywood movies.

……

of course.

The stories of the Galactic Empire series are too long. There are [-] volumes in the book, each of which is a long story. It is impossible for Lin Yuan to write all of them in one go, so he is going to write about the Galactic Empire this time. The eighth part of the series.

Namely "I, Robot"!

It is through this work.

Asimov created the three laws of robotics at the cornerstone level of contemporary science fiction.

Rule [-]: A robot may not injure a human being, or stand idly by while a human being is harmed.

Rule [-]: Robots must obey orders from humans unless this order contradicts Rule [-].

Article [-]: A robot must protect itself, unless such protection contradicts the above two.

These are the three laws of robotics.

Also known as the three laws of robotics.

After the development of time, Asimov actually added a "Zeroth Law" later, but Lin Yuan didn't want to throw it out all at once.

Hiding cards is Lin Yuan's habit.

Asimov used the three laws to construct a series of seemingly perfect thinking logic for readers, and then used nine short stories to subvert the laws and try to solve the loopholes and paradoxes in the theory. The writing is humorous and full of tension.

Someone might say.

Since there are [-] volumes in Galactic Empire, why did you write the eighth volume first? Will the first few volumes affect reading?

of course not.

Those who have watched the Marvel series of movies should know that the release order of the Marvel series of movies is not equal to the chronological order of the stories.

The same goes for the Galactic Empire series.

Although "I, Robot" is the eighth part of the Galactic Empire series, but in terms of chronological order, this work is the origin and beginning of the Galactic Empire series.

In other words:

If you want to thoroughly understand the Galactic Empire series, starting from the eighth "I, Robot" is the correct reading order.

This is the real reason why Lin Yuan decided to write "I, Robot".

The Galactic Empire series is too long.

It's time for Lin Yuan to give him a head start.

Isn't the new book of Weizhou science fiction writer Fan Chong a series of six stories?

Lin Yuan's "I, Robot" has nine stories, and the first six stories are about Fan Chong.

The extra three are not wasted.

It just happened to be used to PK with the other three writers who started the literary battle.

Mind this.

Lin Yuan exchanged the potion for energy, and officially began to write.

If you want to finish a novel quickly, it is very necessary to exchange energy potions.

It is said that if you know your enemy and yourself, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

Lin Yuan has read many of Blue Star's science fiction novels, including the direction of robots.

In Blue Star's science fiction at this time, robots still exist as imaginary enemies of human beings in the future.

The extreme idea is that robots will develop high-level intelligence, resist human enslavement, and thus wage war on humans.

Or it is in the worry and fear that "robots will threaten human beings".

It's not just science fiction writers who think so.

In the film and television works including the blue star robot theme, this setting is basically adopted uniformly, with occasional subversion, and it does not deviate from the general direction of this idea.

And Asimov's greatness is that:

He wants to control the potential threat of robots from the source.

Robots are just industrial products made by engineers. The three principles are the root of robots. Protecting human beings is the core safety mechanism after robots are created, so they will not pose a threat to humans.

It sounds simple.

But that's what's so interesting about this novel.

Because accidents are bound to happen, even with the constraints of the three laws, robots are not as flexible as human brains after all, and there will be various loopholes, forming a typical prisoner's dilemma.

……

And when Lin Yuan started to write.

The second round of Chu Kuangbi's literary battle around the world is also completely boiled because of Wei Zhou's science fiction writer Fan Chong!

Very unexpected.

This time, the majority of people who supported Chu Kuang on the Internet, and there were very few fans who made trouble!

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