Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 356 The Farmer and the Fruit

"The Last Man on Earth"

This is the Chinese translation, the original English name is childhoods end, the literal translation should be "The End of Childhood".

It sounds like the last Earthling is a little taller.

When Zhang Zhong saw this book, the first thing Zhang Zhong thought of was the author, Arthur Clarke. This guy can be regarded as a banner in the science fiction world.

Some people call him the Big Three of science fiction along with Heinlein and Asimov.

Compared with the other two, Clark's works are a little harder.

Although whether science fiction is hard or not cannot be used as the only criterion for a work to be good or bad, but the fact that science fiction can be hard is itself a statement of the problem.

His description of satellite communication was surprisingly consistent with the development of the real world, so the geosynchronous satellite orbit was named Clark orbit.

The hard work of Clark should be related to his experience. He has been a science enthusiast since he was a child, and he was very talented when he was very young. He got a job as an auditor in his pensions department and at 12 joined a high-level research group calling itself the British Interplanetary Society.

During World War II, Clark joined the Royal Air Force as a radar technician and participated in the development of the early warning radar defense system.In wartime, it mainly operates the approach radar.

After that, he served as a corporal in the radio school no9. He was appointed as a second lieutenant in the Air Force in 1943 and was promoted to a lieutenant in the Air Force in the same year. He retired with the rank of captain in the Air Force in 1946. He entered London to complete his college and graduated with honors, obtaining mathematics and physics. Double major.

He wrote an article for Radio World entitled "Extraterrestrial Relay," detailing a system of geosynchronous satellites for telecommunications that would broadcast radio and television signals around the world.

At that time, this idea was advanced, so the scientific community also expressed doubts about it. It was not until 20 years later that humans launched the "Morning Bird" synchronous satellite.

Judging from these resumes, he does not look like a science fiction writer at all, but more like a scientific researcher.

This "The Last Man on Earth" is the last book in Clark's "The End of Earth Trilogy". In this novel, Clark made a prediction about the future of mankind.

It is said that the prediction is not correct, Clark does not seem to mean to predict, he is more like putting forward a hypothesis.

A kind of assumption of the question of "how can human beings solve the unification" and try to give the answer.

How can human beings be united?

In "The Last Man on Earth", aliens come. These alien creatures are extremely technologically advanced, and they are not at the same level as humans on Earth. At that time, these alien creatures were very friendly from the beginning, showing to the earth that they are They did not come to invade the earth, they came to help mankind with love and sincerity.

It is impossible for the people on earth to believe what the aliens said, but they have no choice but to wait and see.

At this time, a government stood up and angered the aliens, saying that if you don't leave, we will destroy you.

Of course the aliens didn't leave, and the government was very smart, so it fired the missile directly, but the missile flew over and hit it, but the alien's spaceship was unharmed.

At this time, human beings realized the fact that these aliens are too powerful to resist at all.

Since you can't resist, you can only obey.

Fortunately, these aliens keep their word, say that it is not aggression, it is not aggression, and they coexist harmoniously with human beings. It has been a long time like this, until one day, human children have a strange disease, and they will dream about it every night A place full of stars.

All children under the age of ten have this disease, and those above the age of ten do not.

Later, the children also have superpowers and eat like crazy.

Humans have repeatedly asked the aliens, and the aliens have answered their questions.

From the alien population, human beings know that there is a more advanced life above these aliens.

This advanced life is called superintelligence, and children have become like this has something to do with this superintelligence.

These children will eventually become star children, and the aliens will pick them up.

It's as if humans are a crop that finally bears fruit one day, and these aliens are the Superintelligence's faithful farmer servants, collecting the fruit for the Superintelligence - the children who become star children.

Faced with the powerful aliens, human beings have no choice but to watch all human children under the age of ten being taken away.

Since then, there are only people over the age of 11 left on the planet, and no woman has ever been pregnant.

Without fertility, the race cannot continue, and human beings can only wait to perish.

Those aliens did not leave, they accompanied the earthlings through the last journey.

A long time later, until there is only the last Earthman left on the earth. He was an 11-year-old child, but at this moment he is the oldest one.

There is no energy or food on the earth, and he even needs aliens to send him food.

Faced with such a situation, the aliens could only sigh. As peasant servants, they have seen too many such scenes.

In this way, the human species disappeared from the earth.

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The future of humanity described by Clark in this book is obviously pessimistic.

He poses a hypothetical question: How can humanity achieve unity.

One of the answers he gave in the book is: There must be a transcendent force to suppress.

Clark believes that what is missing from the goal of human unity is not love, the ideal of a world, what we lack is a force with absolute superiority, and even this force does not have to exist all the time, as long as everyone can witness his power once .

Some scholars once put forward a conclusion that the rules of society are determined by the most violent.

This scholar calls this rule a meta-rule, and all social relations are derived from this basis.

"Ugh."

After quickly going through "The Last Man on Earth", Zhang Zhong sighed silently. The helplessness revealed in this book is palpitating.

Not only the helplessness of human beings, but even those aliens who are transcendent to the human beings on earth, they are also helpless. They can only serve as super intelligent servants, wandering in the universe, as long as they meet a high-level The species will settle down, and when the "fruit" is ripe, they will leave with the "fruit".

As for when the "fruit" will ripen, they don't know either.

Although these aliens did not perish, their fate is as tragic as that of human beings.

From the beginning to the end, the author did not explain what the rules of the universe are, and where the star children will eventually go. He just left such a story for readers to think about.

(End of this chapter)