Ani for Ten Thousand Years: Ani for a Hundred Years, Part One
Tens of billions of years ago, the violent collision of the material universe and the idealistic black hole gave birth to Ani, a transcendent life-form with a silicon-based core and carbon-based flesh. Carrying ten bursts of super energy, he transmigrates through hundreds of billions of years and space, eventually arriving in the human world of 1985 to 2085. This is the final hundred-year leg of his journey.
A "prisoner of time" from a silicon-based civilization, Ani can use his retinas to decipher future traces of quantum entanglement, and the scales on his palms can unfold into high-frequency vibrating blades that tear through space and time. Yet when he touches human emotions, his System crashes. From the shadow of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion to a memory library in a Martian colony, from his entangled romance with quantum physicist Lin Mo to uncovering the mystery of his mother's identity as an agent of the "Time Management Bureau," each of his energy surges rewrites the chain of causality. When his eighth burst of energy encodes his lover's consciousness as quantum bits, his ninth reveals the truth behind Earth's disintegration: what is called destruction is actually a meticulously engineered "interstellar seeding plan" devised by the silicon-based council.
Between the law of increasing entropy in the material universe and the imperishability of consciousness in the idealistic world, Ani uses his ten bursts of energy to write the ultimate proposition: when silicon-based logic learns to weep, and carbon-based life embraces eternity, every present moment on time's Mobius strip is already eternal.
I think this book is really magical. It took me into another world, which felt very far and yet very close to the real world. It goes beyond the wonders of science and technology, but also interrogates the depth of human nature in the technological age; it goes beyond space wars, and explores the philosophical possibilities of coexistence among civilizations; it goes beyond heroic legends, and focuses more on how ordinary people find their place in the grand history; it goes beyond a single protagonist, and presents the inheritance and transformation of five generations and multiple civilizations. ; More than a pessimistic doomsday, but also looking for gentle and tenacious hope in despair; more than providing answers, but also committed to raising questions worth thinking about for a lifetime. This is not just a science fiction series, it is a thought experiment spanning a hundred years, an in-depth exploration of contradictions, legacies, limits and tenderness. From the first handshake between silicon and carbon to the cosmic farewell at the funeral of all things, every page is filled with sparks of thought and resonance of emotion. "A Hundred Years of Arnie" is a tribute to classic science fiction, and it also explores the possibilities of science fiction. It proves that the ultimate depth of science fiction is always the questioning of "what makes a person human" - whether this "person" is carbon-based, silicon-based, or some unnamed form of existence.