Seven Shells

✒✒Chinese Science Fiction Recommendation 2: Wang Jinkang 1✒✒ The second of the four great kings of Chinese science fiction. Born in Nanyang, Henan in 1948, he accidentally entered the science fiction literary world in 1993 because his 10-year-old daughter wanted to hear stories. His debut novel "Adam Returns" won the first prize in the 1st National Science Fiction Essay Competition. To date, he has published 87 short stories and more than 10 novels, totaling more than 5 million words. He has won the Galaxy Award and the Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award for Lifetime Achievement from the 97 International Science Fiction Conference. 🕵🕵🕵 No.1 "Adam Returns". His debut novel accidentally broke into the science fiction literary world in 1993 when his 10-year-old daughter was forced to tell a story. After it was published, he won the first prize in the national science fiction essay competition that year. From then on, the 45-year-old embarked on the road of science fiction. It won countless fans and made the world of science popular. Later, some readers said that without Wang Jinkang, they really don't know what the science fiction world would have developed into. No.2 "Song of Life". About the story of life scientist Kong Zhaoren and his family and the intelligent robot Yuanyuan he developed. In "Song of Life", Wang Jinkang's choice is completely opposite to that of "Adam Returns". He completely stands on the standpoint of the old humanity and has his protagonist destroy the "ancestors" of the new humanity and buy us one or two hundred years in the fantasy world. Its success will not be eliminated. In addition to the successful creation of characters and the protagonist's heart-tugging choices, it also lies in its dazzling and pioneering science fiction core and thinking about the nature of life. It talks about whether the life reproduction of artificial intelligence is a higher level beyond human life, and whether they will threaten human survival: the starting point of artificial intelligence, that is, the end of human performance. This view seems to be commonplace today, but it was still forward-looking in the Chinese science fiction world more than 20 years ago. N0.3 "Seven Shells". Comparable to "Inception", the "shell within a shell" similar to "dream within a dream" is astonishingly advanced. The story is about the protagonist Gan Youming entering the virtual world developed by his brother-in-law to find flaws for him. After six shells, Gan Youming blurred the boundary between reality and virtuality. After jumping out of the system, he built a new shell for himself. It was this shell that made the whole world become the most terrifying system in his eyes. He was already living in his own virtual virtuality. The work raises a question: Human beings are too obsessed with and pursue the development of VR and AI technology. When we cannot distinguish between reality and virtuality, what will the world become? It is also worth mentioning that there are descriptions of homosexuality in the novel, which was written in 1997.7, And in 1997.4 US President Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which stipulates that marriage can only occur between men and women. No.4 "Stay with Me". The future history of two interstellar civilizations fighting each other is also Wang's answer to many profound questions raised by Liu Cixin's "Three-Body" series. Many fans of science fiction novels believe that it is comparable to "The Three-Body Problem". The God of "About Me" is a completely subversive character, different from the God of Western religions, but an Eastern God. The most profound meaning of the work is to think about the good and evil of human beings.