
Tales from the Cretaceous
白垩纪往事
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- Completed
- Length
- 24k Words
- Genre
- Sci-Fi & Apocalypse
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- Unknown
- Updated
- 5y ago
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- Fanqie
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There is nothing more to say. I have read six or seven of Da Liu's works on Tomato. His imagination is so shocking, and his understanding of morality and human nature is extremely profound. It makes people think deeply. I have nothing to say, Da Liu yyds!
Wow, I cried when I saw it, my eyes were filled with tears. Can't Liu come up with a better ending? For example, the dinosaurs changed to the correct time the day before, etc. 555
I think dinosaurs can't see ants with their eyes. So dinosaurs and ants don't destroy each other. Just like cells and humans. Can coexist but cannot communicate!
Human beings' unbridled thinking can be our welfare or other people's disaster. How to define it depends on human heart
This novel is set in the Cretaceous period and tells the story of the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs. The author uses delicate descriptions and rich imagination to bring readers into a prehistoric world that is completely different from the real world. The author uses a unique perspective and delicate emotional description to help readers think about the relationship between humans and nature and the mystery of life. This kind of imagination of prehistoric times can not only stimulate readers' desire for exploration and scientific interest, but also make them cherish the real world and the preciousness of life more.
The author is China's most famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin, who describes the life of dinosaurs on the prehistoric continent. Liu's science fiction is based on basic common sense and is rigorous yet wildly imaginative. It not only jokingly imagines the extinction of dinosaurs, but also serves as a warning to mankind. The beauty of this book is that it uses a fantasy war between dinosaurs and a highly civilized world of ants to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous. After reading this book, I can't help but admire Liu's extraordinary imagination and the novel and strange imagination in the book.
A fat lizard was eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex. The Tyrannosaurus tasted the food with relish and felt comfortable with his life. However, the fat lizard was torn in half alive. On one side, it was a comfortable life, on the other side, it was a cruel life. These two completely opposite scenes were frozen in the same place. In the scene, less than one meter away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex, there is a small town of an animal race, the Ant Town. In front of the huge Tyrannosaurus Rex, they went to the Tyrannosaurus Rex's mouth to pick his teeth while eating the lizard meat themselves. To the ants, the Tyrannosaurus Rex's mouth was extremely huge, and the movements of the ants made people feel thrilling.
The Cretaceous period lasted from 144 million to 65 million years ago. It was interesting to learn about China's geological time while reading the book. The story told in this book is also mainly about dinosaurs and ants. After tens of millions of years of evolution, dinosaurs have evolved extremely creative minds and ushered in the era of science and technology, while ants have evolved to engage in all kinds of precision work. However, in the face of profit, ants complain about dinosaurs' environmental pollution and waste of resources, while dinosaurs are afraid of ants' monopoly on precision technology. The author's imagination is very rich and very beautiful.
When dinosaurs met ants, if this normal development continues, the societies of dinosaurs and ants will probably not evolve. The fire of wisdom that these two species have just ignited will gradually extinguish in the long river of time, just like countless species before and after them, they are just two fleeting glimmers in the long night of earth's history. Liu Cixin's imagination is as wild as the ocean. The highly civilized society of ants and dinosaurs combined with the terrifying balance between big countries that mirrors reality is a metaphor that is thought-provoking.
It is indeed the pinnacle of Chinese fantasy. It is so well written. It seems to be describing the story between ants and dinosaurs, but it is actually reflecting the reality of human beings.