If We Die at 25 (Galaxy Award-Winning Work)

A very powerful book, as the final translator said: "If this setting were written by another author, it could easily be written as a dystopian political novel. Either it would describe in a thick and heavy way how the social system destroys human nature, or it would create an image of a lone hero who challenges the absurd world on his own. But she (let's assume it's her for now) doesn't write grand narratives, she doesn't write about how the world is and how humans are. She just writes about how ordinary people try to live a good life in such a cruel reality. This is a very precious perspective. After all, when the tide of the times comes overwhelmingly, most of us will just be like the characters in Sunakawa Yuji's works, struggling to manage our hard-won happiness in the tide of the times - but without ordinary people like us, the tide of the times would not exist. We are not romantic figures who can leave our names in history, but we are history. From this point of view, "If We Die at 25" is not an epic of time? " Therefore, I was inspired and decided that I wasn't going to write about society's projection of individuals and my thoughts on people (in fact, I didn't even mention it much in the first place). I didn't expect that the author was actually a writer from Pujiang. This is really surprising. All in all, it is highly recommended to read.

It is a very light narrative. As the translator said, the author can start writing from more serious topics, such as the unreasonable political system, the unified marriage distribution, the inhumane separation of parents and children, and the centralized cramming education, which allows teenagers or children aged fourteen or fifteen to have children. Personal happiness is abandoned in the face of the continuation of humanity's ambitious goals. But on the contrary, the author chose to let these more serious topics be reflected in the minutiae, and instead focused on writing a few stories surrounding love. Perhaps this can arouse our thinking and resonance more.

Such a delicate writing style, so touching... It is also a very fresh and refined book among dystopian works, and because it is a female author, it is very gentle, and there is no eye-catching or sleazy plot. I highly recommend reading it.

The biggest feeling after reading this book is that every era will have its own sorrows. In the face of the torrent of the times, human beings' various joys, angers, sorrows, and joys seem so insignificant... The sad thing is that people's desire for love is eternal. Whether it is polygamy in ancient times to monogamy today, or the gradual shift from heterosexuality to homosexuality, it may only be about gender, but what remains unchanged is the desire for pure, enviable love that is not mixed with any interests or family responsibilities. During my junior high and high school years, some of my classmates chose to be gay, or they did not feel the respect and expectation of love from men; or they may have been slandered and personally attacked by women, and they were so sad that they were afraid to talk about love with women again; of course, there were also those who had relationships with the same sex for stimulation, following the trend, and with a playful heart... I believe in a love that grows old together and never regrets; I also believe in a love that is only for you and is loyal to you; but I can't believe that I will meet someone I like and love me and we will spend the rest of my life hand in hand. Maybe my idea is a bit sad, but I still believe in the beautiful love in this world. I just have a little hope but can't believe that this kind of love will happen to me! Maybe it's because there are too many sad and failed marriages around me, and there are also many people who walked into "love" with joyful steps but walked out like bones... I read in the article that the love between short-lived species and short-lived species is too short to collect and explore more possible time frames; short-lived species and long-lived species do not dare to have too deep a bond, and are afraid that it will be heartbreaking when the bond is too shallow. It is a pity that there are lovers but no spouses. I hope that lovers in our real lives can eventually get married, and if not, I hope that I can have beautiful and profound experiences with the people I love, which can be a little comfort in the long life.

It's a very interesting setting. In fact, under this background, in addition to the microcosm of everyone, they also hope to see a counterattack against such a system that is almost suppressing freedom, even if it is just a microcosm or a hint. Although there is a relatively free area like the Old World Village, it is too small in scale. The core of pursuing freedom is placed in God rather than pure free will. It cannot compete with the system and is unable to fight against it. It still feels restricted. People can and should do better, rather than expecting humans to break through life spans (even on a macro scale). Gives you a lot to think about

This is my more serious rating. I only watched 20% of it. It is very calm and very thought-provoking. This is a noon that is affected by serotonin. It makes me wake up slowly and calm down. I can also read books while listening to music.

Nice! The author's writing style is delicate and plain. These are stories about ordinary people, with a touch of happiness, followed by a touch of sadness. While reading, I have been thinking about the contradiction and unity of collective interests and personal happiness. Regarding the pain of separation between mothers and children, about same-sex love, about the farewell between long-lived species and short-lived species, should individual happiness and autonomy be sacrificed for the sake of collective interests and the survival of mankind? The average life span of 25 years old is too short, there is no time to understand the world, and there is no time to love. Looking at the pain in life from a macro perspective, pain can be diluted.

When I first read the title of this book, I was still thinking, would we be more comfortable if the average life span was only 25 years old? For me, I may not want to follow the trajectory of modern society so much, but more want to go out and explore the world. After all, I only have such a short life span. But society will not be like this. For "big people", "humanity" needs to continue forever, and such a strong government all-inclusive system is inevitable... But for ordinary people, it is a bit too cruel. I slowly began to recognize the "settings" of various systems, and then began to understand and think about the stories of each "protagonist". Based on my usual "one protagonist, one main line" thinking when reading books, when I saw the second story, I also used to look for the characters who appeared in the previous story, thinking that it was telling the main line from a different perspective, but no, the author cleverly interspersed "world rules" with a touch of "tragedy" from various angles. Hmm... I can't tell you any big reason, but as the "immortal species" envied by people in the book, our future possibilities are also more [Sending Hearts]

The emotions of the characters are delicate and real, and the various pains of life are revealed in the warm narrative.

In fact, at first I was very confused as to why the author wanted to write like this, about ordinary people's daily lives. In this setting, all I could foresee was endless darkness and unknown terror, but I seemed to have forgotten, forgotten people's sensibility and tenderness, forgotten people's innocence and romance, and forgotten the light of humanity that still exists on the other side of darkness, just like the sentence in "Interstellar": Love is the only thing we can perceive that spans time and space. And the love and softness of human heart represented by Cheng Xin in "The Three-Body Problem". The daily life and various aspects of life of ordinary people in this context described in this book gave me profound inspiration and thinking. What moved me most was the last story: the average life span of twenty-five years is too short, not enough to understand the world and not enough to express love. Yes, the life span of twenty-five years is too short. This also enlightens us that we should cherish our own lives and the present moment more. I hope you can encourage us all. Finally, this is a very interesting science fiction novel worth reading [Blow a kiss] However, I prefer to regard this work as a beautiful and gentle fairy tale

It feels very similar to the current social environment of Liben. It encourages starting a family and having more children. Most women aim to become housewives. Is it because the author is Liben? The story is inexplicably warm in the strange world view, but it is more of a sense of powerlessness. The characters in the article reveal that they are aware of the irrationality but have been brainwashed by the system for a long time, so they only have two options: completely escape the system or obey. A small resistance will not cause any splash, and some docile people can indeed live well in this system. Well, it's a bit like a dystopian novel, except for the protagonist, it's a record of the lives of ordinary people.

I've just read Chapter 3, do I need to rate it? But it's okay that this book is all short stories. In the first chapter, let's first propose a worldview that runs through the entire book and connects all chapters. This worldview is actually quite interesting. Human lifespan has been compressed to the limit of twenty-five years, and the life cycle and rhythm have been accelerated accordingly. We can experience things very early that we may not understand in our thirties or forties, but they cannot enjoy the things that we can enjoy. In a world where even marriage is officially arranged, everything is done to perpetuate the race, and personal desires will be compressed to the extreme. However, if you are deprived of the right to dream since childhood, you will probably regard dreaming as a form of mental illness when you grow up. At the end of the first chapter, if Mia and the others understood that what was surging in their hearts was the reluctance to let go of their children, they would probably be shocked and frightened, for fear that this idea would be a betrayal of society. Chapter 2: The freedom of personal will is indeed excluded by society... I'm so dizzy, I can't look at my phone for a long time on the subway, it feels like the world is spinning (ᯣ_ᯣ)

I have thought about it a lot. Well, all I can say is, look, those thought-provoking sentences are expressed in the plainest language. In the background of this story, there are the joys, sorrows and joys of many small people. No matter who you are, no matter what kind of life you are in, you will face pain, but you still have hope. It is a very powerful book.

Based on my reading experience and reading taste, this is definitely a good book! Think about institutions and human attributes from ordinary daily narratives. Several short stories are told from a female perspective. Regarding this imagined, quasi-communist society with a fantasy nature, the author tells it very well. The short novel touches on every aspect of society, leaving blanks for imagination. It can be said that it is somewhat similar to 1984 but completely opposite. Like it very much.

Although it is a science fiction background, it is surprisingly a small entry point that revolves around the lives of ordinary people. Everyday life or science fiction are both carriers. What is really exciting is the faint true feelings surging underneath... It is very touching! [Cry][cry][cry]

2026.7.3 I was attracted by the title of the book, with the intention of reading it as a bedtime reading. But then I completely fell in love with it! The two chapters that moved me most were the mother and daughter, and Jianan's first love. The child must be handed over to the government for unified care as soon as it is born. The mother, who misses her child too much, treats the little girl Lara, whom she met by accident, with the same name, as her own child. She reads picture books with her and eats chocolates with her. They even agree to go to a waterfall together; Jianan is lucky enough to be assigned to marry the teacher she admires. But the teacher was very cold to him and refused to touch her. The teacher did not want to have a child of his own, and did not want to experience the cycle of loss and loss again. How sad it is for long-lived people to live in a short-lived race. Later, the knot was resolved and they fell in love, even leaving Kanan behind. I always thought before that I didn't want to grow old, and I didn't want to go from being full of life to being old and lifeless. The disillusionment of good things has always been an unimaginable horror for me. But now I feel that it is really great to live a long life. I still have decades to see the world, make friends, and experience many new things. I can search for fragments of the past in my memory just like trees record their age with their annual rings. As Jianan said, the average life span of twenty-five years is too short, not enough to understand the world and not enough to express love. I hope I live longer and see the world further away.

In that future, will love be freer? Will life be long enough? May those who love each other be united and stay together forever.

Under the torrent of the times, ordinary people make their own choices for love. It is not a different kind of splendor, but it reveals a different kind of beauty. Plainness is the truth. As the translator said: "We are not romantic figures who can leave our names in history, but we are history."

Is this a society where the average age is only 25? Looking at it this way, I'm quite happy. I hope I won't die suddenly in the future and can live healthy until I'm sixty.

Very beautiful, rare, light science fiction without falsehood. The topic discussed is very interesting. What will normal life look like after the age becomes shorter? The author mainly focuses on the family and the relationship between the sexes, and does not discuss the grand propositions about society in any depth. This is the valuable thing about this book. It writes about people's lives very sincerely and tenderly, and you can feel the author's humanistic feelings very much.

If it is used to show a fragment of the world of phenomena of that era, it can escape into immortality

From the subtle uneasiness I felt in the first chapter to the unforgettable experience in the last chapter, the background setting is obviously apocalyptic, but it makes people feel warm and moved by the small blessings in the character's life. The story of Mr. Takada and Kanan is the one that makes people shed tears the most. Although the open ending of each short story makes people feel the dawn of hope, and the overall trend is obviously for the better, I still feel sad and painful for the fate of these people. In short, it is so well written [Like] [Like] [Like]

With this background, I thought I would write about reflection and resistance, but it turned out not to be the case. It is very well written about the love and happiness of ordinary people in this context.

In a life that is compressed into a fresh can, every character bursts out with the most brilliant human emotions, love and hate.

Very good book, thought-provoking

Very touching story

Very delicate writing

Nice and interesting story

Chapter 2 is a bit like my parents. . .

It's pretty cool. At least in this social environment, many people yearn for freedom. After reading it, the translator's words are very cute. I have read a lot of books. I really like this book. I want to cry every chapter. If I die in 25 years, I hope everyone still has the right to choose life.