刘慈欣：中国的亚瑟·克拉克[1]_时事

刘慈欣：中国的亚瑟·克拉克[1]

我们发现书中描述的是未来的世界：中国在太空建造了一面巨大的镜子，它被称为“中国太阳”，用于调节气候。阿全的工作是清洁“中国太阳”反光表面。原来斯蒂芬·霍金 Liu’s stories aren't always so tender; in imagining the human future, his romantic sweetness is balanced with harsh objectivity. In "The Wandering Earth," scientists discover that the sun is about to swell into a red giant. In response, they build enormous engines capable of pushing the entire planet toward another star—an "exodus" that will last a hundred generations, during which everything on the surface will be destroyed. Watching the deadly sun recede and transform into a star like any other, the protagonist cries out, "Earth, oh my wandering Earth!" And yet the story suggests that this is just the sort of outrageous project we'll need in order to insure humanity's long-term survival.

刘慈欣的故事不完全是这么温和的；在想象人类的未来时，他笔下的浪漫甜蜜与残酷现实是相辅相成的。在《流浪地球》 "In the distant future, if human civilization survives and spreads through the cosmos, humanity must create technological marvels at ultra-grand scales," Liu wrote to me.

刘慈欣在邮件中写道：“在遥远的未来，如果人类文明在宇宙间生存繁衍的话，人类必需创造超乎寻常的科技奇迹。”

I believe science and technology can bring us a bright future, but the journey to achieve it will be filled with difficulties and exact a price from us. Some of these obstacles and costs will be quite terrible, but in the end we will land on the sunlit further shore. Let me quote the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo from the beginning of the last century, who, after a trip to the Soviet Union, said, "Over there, they believe in the existence of Heaven, but there is a sea of blood that lies between Heaven and Hell, and they’ve decided to cross the sea."