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During the American Civil War, five Union prisoners escaped from Richmond, the Confederate base camp, in a balloon. They encountered a storm on the way and were thrown to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. Relying on their own wisdom and extraordinary perseverance, these castaways overcame various difficulties and lived on the island for nearly four years, building the island into a prosperous paradise. Finally, a volcanic eruption nearly killed several people until the "Duncan" commanded by Captain Grant's son Robert came to the island to rescue them. The plot of the whole novel is ups and downs and thrilling. It has been published for more than a hundred years and has been deeply loved by readers all over the world.

"Critical Point 5" is a collection of 2019 Future Science Fiction Masters Award-winning works. It includes 11 independent short stories. The themes include artificial intelligence, technological development, the future world, apocalyptic disasters, ecological protection, mechanical life and other hot topics in current literary creation. The content covers philosophy, technology, real life, morality and other aspects.

This book is a collection of works by the new generation of science fiction writer Wang Yuan, including "Behind the Door", "Girl C", "Mars Festival Examination", "Siren", "Caged Universe", "Five Yin Blazing", "Package", "The Painter", "Where in Life", "The King", "I Love Eternal Life", "Small Machine", etc. Each article ranges from 10,000 to 30,000 words. The content covers all aspects of artificial intelligence, alien life, high-tech and other aspects, and is full of endless imagination. From this, we can not only see the bold creation and independent interpretation of the world by the younger generation of science fiction authors, but also marvel at the proficiency of their writing and the ingenuity of their narratives.

This book is a selected collection of the Critical Point Future Science Fiction Master Award series, including Critical Point volumes 1-5. The "Future Science Fiction Master Award" is currently the most influential science fiction essay competition in the domestic science fiction field. It has judges such as Liu Cixin, Han Song, He Xi, Chen Qiufan, Jiang Bo and other well-known science fiction writers, and has cultivated a group of science fiction writers who are active in the front line of science fiction creation. This book is a collection of the latest award-winning works of the "Future Science Fiction Master Award".

"The Mysterious Island" is the final work of the Ocean Trilogy by the French science fiction novelist Jules Verne, who is recognized as the "father of modern science fiction". The story takes place during the American Civil War. Five Union prisoners, led by Cyrus Smith, escaped in a balloon. They encountered a storm on the way and were thrown onto an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. They relied on their own wisdom and perseverance to survive tenaciously and built the island into a prosperous paradise. On the island, they were also secretly protected by Captain Nemo in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", who repeatedly saved the day from danger. Finally, they finally boarded the "Duncan" commanded by Robert Grant, the son of Captain Grant, and returned to the motherland they thought about day and night.

A pioneering work by Mary Shelley, the "Mother of Science Fiction", newly revised translation in 2020. Frankenstein was a biologist who was passionate about the origin of life. He frequently haunted the charnel house with a criminal mentality, trying to piece together a giant human body from the parts of different corpses. When the monster finally came to life and opened his eyes, Frankenstein was so frightened by his ferocious appearance that he abandoned him and ran away. However, he pursued Frankenstein in pursuit of a female companion, warmth and friendship: What followed was a series of bizarre suspense and murder cases.

With multiple characters, multiple angles, and taking into account both macro and micro, it panoramically displays a gloomy near-future world - population explosion, resource depletion, and the disintegration of traditional family and social relationships.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" tells the story of Professor Lidenbrock's expedition to the center of the earth with his nephew Axel and his guide Hans, inspired by a coded letter. They descended from the Snæfellsjökull crater in Iceland, overcoming various difficulties such as lack of water, getting lost, and storms along the way, and finally returned to the ground from the Sedrombuli volcano in Sicily during a volcanic eruption. In this novel, Verne cleverly intersperses scientific knowledge with the plot and the characterization of the characters. While describing a magical underground world to the readers and showing the twists and turns, vivid and interesting plot, he also allows the readers to learn a wealth of scientific knowledge and feel the strong will of mankind to conquer nature.

"Brain Hole Conference: Can't Sleep in the Museum" is the second book in the Brain Hole Conference series. This collection still implements the theme of "brain hole", continues the imagination of the first collection, and starts its own specific "fantasy" journey. It complements the continuing hit "Wonderful Stories of the World". The dozens of works included in this book include fantasies about future technology, divergences of anecdotes from the market, and imaginings of the multi-dimensional world of parallel time and space. The book contains scenes you have never seen before, elusive plots, amazing imaginations, "the never-ending escalator", "personality labeling", "my input method can talk"... These wonderful stories challenge your senses, stimulate your curiosity, and take you into a bizarre world. The story is beautiful and easy to read, but there is no lack of thought-provoking philosophy of life in the article. The authors use wise words to make the absurd story educational. It is not a dull preaching, but vividly told to allow readers to reflect and inject positive value orientation into the story. Hey, did you have another magical daydream? Welcome to the Can't Sleep Museum.

"Invasion" is a political fantasy novel, a late work by the American best-selling author Van Loon, and one of his only two novels. Van Loon said that this novel in which he is the protagonist is "a dirty and despicable little book in the style of Goebbels." When this book was first published in the United States in 1940, it was subtitled "Eyewitness Accounts of the Nazi Invasion of the United States." This book dramatically shows how events that have happened in Europe will be repeated on this side of the Atlantic in the United States: New York is invaded by the Nazis, and the American authorities withhold concessions in order not to anger Hitler. To add documentary authenticity to what he wrote, Van Loon placed himself, his family, neighbors, and friends at center stage during the Nazi invasion, referring to them by their real names or nicknames. The sense of crisis that Van Rooster wanted to convey to Americans was not far-fetched in light of subsequent events: the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor using an aircraft carrier and the landing of Nazi saboteurs on the eastern end of Long Island near New York City. In a letter to the editor of the newspaper, Van Loon stated that his fictitious invasion of New York had already occurred in Norway, and that he had simply replaced Oslo with New York. His intention was to arouse people's hatred of the German rulers and the realization that they could no longer retreat into the ivory tower and ignore right and wrong.

Zhang Shihe is a wartime food researcher at the Munitions Research Institute of the General Logistics Department. He also has a special identity - the 69th generation grandson of Eastern Han Dynasty scientist Zhang Heng. In an accidental clinical experiment accident, his eyes mutated and he gained the superpower to see through the earth's crust! Since then, digging wells to find water, exploring tombs, predicting earthquakes... All kinds of thrilling adventures have become his daily life... However, he is still an ordinary person after all. After all the tribulations have been overcome, how will this seemingly absurd "Superman" game end?

"Love Song in the Lost City" tells a science fiction love story that takes place in the Lingnan Greater Bay Area where a centenarian man travels through time and space to save his life. On the day of Beidi's birthday in 2076, centenarian Li Junnan returned from Xiangjiang to his hometown of Haizu Temple to pay homage to Beiti. Unfortunately, he was knocked down by a tourist and his head hit the worship stone. The gravitational wave energy released by this extraterrestrial flying stone drove his soul to travel to the past time and space in 2004, using the body of young Li Junnan as its host. In the present time and space of 2076, Zhang Guixiu, the wife of old man Li Junnan, used wormholes, spiritual technology, gravitational waves and other methods to travel through time and space to save old man Li Junnan who was in a deep coma. The novel has the breadth of fantasy, the height of science and technology, the depth of thought, the concentration of humanities, and the warmth of love. It focuses on showing that Zhonghai, as the birthplace of Lingnan culture and Guangfu culture, has become a sample of the integration and secularization of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in the world. The concepts of charity, tolerance, benevolence, Tongji, and harmony contained in the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and secularization are the core of the beliefs of the people of Zhonghai.

In the 21st century described by John Brunner, network surveillance is everywhere, controlling people's food, clothing, housing and transportation. Dangerous criminal Nick Haflinger dodges between multiple identities, but in the end he never escapes the fate of being arrested. Faced with the severe punishment of having his brain reset, he creates a weapon that changes the world. His invention not only shook the conglomerate giants in the book, but also cast a shadow forever on our real world.

Edgar Allan Poe was not only an outstanding writer of detective novels, he was also considered one of the creators of science fiction. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Hans Pfar" is his most representative science fiction work. The book describes the journey of Hans Pfarr, a poor Dutchman, who took a hot air balloon to the moon in order to avoid debts. The story is ups and downs and fascinating, and the scientific theories in it are also extremely detailed, achieving a wonderful balance of fantasy and science.

This book is the first science fiction novel written by Conan Doyle. The story mainly tells about the adventure journey of the protagonist Professor Challenger in the highlands of South America. Many prehistoric creatures lived there, including dinosaurs and extinct creatures. The story describes in detail the war between prehistoric humans and apes. The plot is fascinating. This novel has inspired our modern adventure stories and movies about ancient beasts and dinosaurs.

A young and promising engineer suddenly died in the bathroom at home. The conflict of suspicion points to the sexy and romantic wife Xiaoman and her lover, the handsome factory doctor Xu Jian... They are a group of people whose genes have been messed up by the hand of God, and their lives have been deformed as a result. All struggles and self-rescue are in vain, and they can only face their fate helplessly. The transformational work of the famous science fiction writer Wang Jinkang, through an extramarital affair of Xu Jian, a factory doctor who has a strange murder case in a special car factory, reveals the secret living conditions of a special group that is less concerned by the public, and points directly to the essence of human nature.

Alien Wen Xinghe is a professional scavenger with a professional qualification certificate. He goes undercover on the earth as a Taoist priest and captures alien creatures that have smuggled to the earth in the name of catching monsters. In order to repay the astronomical college fees, he carried a live broadcast system with him to record his life of catching monsters on earth to earn rewards. The other male protagonist is the "tyrannical president" Fang Chengyun, who is an alien integrated with artificial intelligence. He is also a teacher and friend to Wen Xinghe, helping him integrate into the earth and assisting him in completing his mission. He is Wen Xinghe's strong backing. The highlights of this story are mainly reflected in the character relationships, plot settings and live broadcast settings. One of the two protagonists is a "shameless modern Taoist priest who is incapable of understanding earthly things and emotions and pretends to be an outsider." The other is "a cold-blooded and domineering president who gets angry at the slightest disagreement." The two people usually laugh and curse, and fight side by side in times of trouble. The relationship between the two characters is warm and firm. The plot is in a cool mode all the way, and the protagonist is not guilty. It unfolds in the form of a unit drama, combining imaginative alien culture and urban weird stories to form a series of bizarre events, such as: monsters eating people at will on the bus, air-traveling fish that travel through dimensional space, etc. While tracing the origins of these events, the protagonist also witnessed various sincere emotions of humans on earth and gradually understood the meaning of these emotions. This is also the core of the novel, recognition and assimilation. The setting of the live broadcast system not only establishes the relaxed and humorous complaining style of the story, but also serves as a golden finger for the protagonist. When nothing happens, the alien audience will complain about the difference between the earth and aliens, and make jokes about life in the galaxy. When something happens, the audience becomes the knowledge base of Wen Xinghe, and even becomes an important weapon in completing the mission.

"From the Earth to the Moon" tells the story that after the American Civil War, Bobby Kane, the president of the Baltimore Cannon Club, proposed firing a cannonball to the moon in order to establish a connection between the earth and the moon. After French adventurer Michel Ardant learned of the news, he suggested building a hollow cannonball, and he was going to use this cannonball to explore the moon. Captains Bobby Kane, Michelle and Nicol overcame various difficulties and finally set off on this cannon, but they did not reach their destination... The plot of this book is thrilling and full of superhuman imagination. Verne's scientific assumptions in the book are actually very similar to the real experience of modern astronauts, which is shocking.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is one of Jules Verne's masterpieces and a classic of world science fiction, with a lively style and a sense of humor. The novel tells the story of Mr. Fogg, an Englishman who overcame many difficulties to complete a circumnavigation of the world in eighty days because of a bet with his friends. The book not only describes in detail the various bizarre experiences of Mr. Fogg and his party on the way and the numerous difficulties and dangers they encountered, but also gradually makes the characters' personalities three-dimensional as the plot unfolds. The taciturn, witty, brave and humane Fogg, the lively and impulsive servant, etc. After the work was published, it caused a sensation and was reprinted many times.

A pair of space travelers accidentally discovered a "drift bottle" while traveling among the stars. The manuscript in the bottle told a shocking story: In the year 2500, earthlings Ulysses, Ann Taylor and Artur took a spacecraft to "Thorol", a planet in the "Betelgeuse" galaxy, and found that the world was ruled by apes. Humans had no ability to think or speak, and were no different from other animals. Artur was killed by an ape, and Antel quickly assimilated with local humans and became an animal. Only Ulysses gained the friendship and trust of the apes through unremitting efforts, and found out the secret of the evolution of apes and the degradation of humans. He also met Nova, a woman on the planet "Thorol", patiently taught her how to speak, cultivated her logical ability, and gave birth to a son with her. But when he returned to the earth with his wife and children after all the hard work, he found that things and people had changed, and the earth had also repeated the same mistakes, becoming a world ruled by apes. At the end of the novel, there is a subtle hint that the two space travelers who picked up the drift bottle are also orangutans. In fact, the entire space has become a world of apes.

Artemis is the moon goddess in Greek mythology and the name of mankind's first and only lunar city. The city consists of five giant domes, and different classes of people live under different domes. The protagonist "Jazz" struggles on the poverty line and makes a living by delivering express delivery and smuggled goods. Life on the moon is not that romantic, and you need money to survive. It all started when she wanted to make money...

This book is a collection of 2017 Future Science Fiction Master Award-winning works, including 14 independent short stories, with themes including artificial intelligence, virtual space, parallel worlds, cloning and other popular topics popular among readers. Each story ranges from 10,000 to 30,000 words. The stories are simple but not simple, popular but not vulgar. The content of the book covers many aspects such as social science history, real life, philosophy and technology, etc. It is both down-to-earth and full of endless imagination. From this, we can not only see the bold creation and independent interpretation of the world by the younger generation of science fiction authors, but also marvel at the proficiency of their writing and the ingenuity of their narratives. Overall, this is a "quick-read" novel that both experienced science fiction fans and ordinary readers can enter quickly and read easily.

This is a fantasy about the future of mankind and a reflection on real life. The next second - the world you and I know will change! "Critical Point 4: Selected Collection of the 7th Future Science Fiction Masters Award" is a collection of science fiction novels that compiles the winning works and shortlisted works of the 2018 Future Science Fiction Masters Award, including "Artificial Hands on Humans", "Sin", "Bionic House", "Wind from the Sky", "All Souls Bar", "The Purpose of Life" and other short and medium-sized novels. And artificial intelligence, memory transplantation, bionic technology, robot ethics, time and space travel, etc., It shows the bold imagination of the new generation of science fiction writers about the world, their expectations and curiosity about future technology, and also shows the collective style, rich thinking ability and concern for the destiny of mankind of the younger generation of science fiction writers.

Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer and a pioneer of "cyberpunk" who won the Hugo Award and the Campbell Award. In addition to the 38 books that are still in circulation, he also wrote a number of short stories and a handful of works published in dime magazines, at least seven of which were adapted into films. Although he was praised by well-known science fiction writers Stanislaw Lem and Robert Heine during his lifetime, he became gradually known to people after his death. Dick's creations became a pioneer of the cyberpunk genre. His works all described a morally corrupt California society. His early novels explored social and political topics, while his later works discussed drugs and theology. These depictions were actually based on his own life experiences, such as "Scan" and "VALIS".

When Verne passed away, people spoke highly of him: "Verne was both a writer in the scientific community and a scientist in the literary community." In today's world, the Science Award named after Verne has become a world-wide science popularization award and is admired by people all over the world. Verne's works have become encyclopedias for developing science and technology, imagining the future, and promoting the progress of the times. Verne's works are widely circulated and have been translated into and published in more than 52 languages ​​over the years. Some have been adapted into movies, TV shows, comic books, etc., With readers all over the world. They have grown up with generations and developed with each era, and are deeply loved by people all over the world, especially teenagers.

From "Songs of the Four Seasons: A Selected Collection of the Bucket Rider", The Bucket Rider is known as China's Kafka. He makes Chinese fantasy become real literature. He also integrates the simplicity, ethereal, beauty and weirdness of Chinese characters, where the poetry, absurdity and imagination of the East reach their peak.

From "Songs of the Four Seasons: A Selected Collection of the Bucket Rider", The Bucket Rider is known as China's Kafka. He makes Chinese fantasy become real literature. He also integrates the simplicity, ethereal, beauty and weirdness of Chinese characters, where the poetry, absurdity and imagination of the East reach their peak.

From "Songs of the Four Seasons: A Selected Collection of the Bucket Rider", The Bucket Rider is known as China's Kafka. He makes Chinese fantasy become real literature. He also integrates the simplicity, ethereal, beauty and weirdness of Chinese characters, where the poetry, absurdity and imagination of the East reach their peak.

The Man Who Rides a Bucket is known as China's Kafka. He made Chinese fantasy become real literature. He also integrated the simplicity, etherealness, beauty and weirdness of Chinese characters into one, where the poetry, absurdity and imagination of the East reach their peak.

The moon only looks peaceful when viewed from a distance. Under the restless lunar surface, the five families that control the five pillar industries of the moon compete fiercely with each other. We call them the "Five Dragons". On the moon in the 22nd century, the four elements of air, water, carbon and data have become the basic quantities and prices. The "habitat foil" installed on the eyeball is used to calculate the cost of the four personal elements; each person is equipped with a holographic virtual character "personal follower" as a medium to interact with the lunar social network and other people; there is no criminal law, only contract law, from marriage, divorce to murder, everything is a negotiable transaction... The operations of the five major families and the lives of all lunar citizens are carried out under contracts awarded by the Lunar Development Authority (LDC). The five major families are allied with each other through marriage contracts, and at the same time they also maintain hostility and vigilance with different families. At the same time, the earth has never given up control and penetration of the moon.

A dragon died. One of the five major family companies that ruled the moon, Kota Helium fell. Its wealth was divided among its many enemies, and its survivors were scattered. Eighteen months have passed. The last successor, Lucas, has disappeared from the moon's surface. Only Mrs. Sun of Sun Company suspected that Lucas Cota was not dead yet, and more importantly, he was not out yet. After all, Lucas has always been Kota's conspirator, and even if he is dead, he will definitely try his best to get everything back and build a new Kota Helium that is more powerful than before. But Kota Helium needs allies, so the fugitive embarks on a daring, impossible journey to Earth. In the turbulent lunar environment, as war breaks out, each family plays loyalty and cunning to the extreme.

When "Game of Thrones" meets "The Expanse," it's this fast-paced, intricate space opera. The war between the five dragons broke out in full force. In the violent and ruthless political atmosphere, in order to gain advantage and compete for the top position in the food chain, each family used all means - marriage, espionage, kidnapping, and assassination. Lucas Cota rose from the ashes of his family's destruction and used clever political manipulation and sheer force of will to seize control of the moon. The only person who can stop him is his sister Ariel Cota, an excellent lunar lawyer.

The moon wants to kill you. It may kill you before you strike gold, when the rationed food, water and air are exhausted; it may also kill you when you make a desperate move against the feudal society of the future and get caught in a battle between five dragons. On the Moon, every inch you want to gain has to be fought to win. That's what Adriana Cota did. As the youngest of the Five Dragons, Adriana wrested control of the lunar helium-3 industry from Mackenzie Metals, gaining new status for her family. Now, as she approaches the twilight of her life, Adriana discovers that Kota Helium will face many of the enemies she made during her meteoric rise. Her five children must defend the empire their mother founded, and they must defend each other in order for the Cotta family to survive.

This book is composed of six science fiction mystery stories, from the mysterious reincarnation that happened in the old house in Hujialou, Beijing, to the girl who lost her legs and was as desperate as a puppet being manipulated, from the amnesiac woman whose body was broken to look for the killer, to the detective who was peeling off the cocoon to get closer to the truth, from the middle-aged man who fell in love in time and space, to the genetic tailor who lost his life overnight, and the doctor of physics who silently devoted his life to the mysterious creatures on the earth. Parallel universe, AI brain science, women's freedom, fairness and justice, time and space love, genetic improvement, ecological balance... Here, you will travel from one story to another, traveling through time and space, life and death, and reincarnation. This book is different from science fiction novels written from a purely science fiction perspective. The story focuses on the fate of an independent living individual, his or her life. Among them, the first four stories are connected together by hidden clues, which are easter eggs left for readers.

The sci-fi masterpiece conceived by front-line scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences for nearly two decades presents you with a mysterious and realistic future world. In 2042, the Chinese dark matter detection device "Wisdom Eyes", which Chinese scientist Xiao Yiqun participated in the design and construction of, was completed. China sent greetings to the universe on behalf of all mankind. Blake, the president of the international aerospace industry giant Heibei Company, is ambitious and decides to take the lead in contacting aliens at all costs and become the king of the solar system. Princess Melody of the Allied Star Kingdom in the Andromeda Galaxy deciphered the message sent by humans, and led a fleet with General Black Sai to the earth-moon space to investigate. In the distance, the king of the Allied Star Kingdom learned that the princess had been killed. He was furious and launched an army to attack the galaxy.

"Artificial intelligence also has the imagination of artificial intelligence." "Oh?" "What we have is the imagination to see into the future."

I don't think I'll be selling these rocks anymore. I don't want to pass them on to anyone. I want to keep it to myself and enjoy it.

Ever since they were born and saw stars and rockets for the first time, they had an intuition: they should go to that dark world.

Social accounts on the Internet are like a home when the owner is alive, and become her tomb after the owner dies.

I am human. I will never give up my identity as a human being. Instead of becoming a "sea anemone man", I would rather choose to perish as a human being.

"If you were not selected as a pilot, would you have any other goals?" "No. I am a component of the aircraft. I have no other choice but to be a pilot."

From a human perspective, the time of coexistence with the gods is a long one. But for the gods, this history may be just a short journey in their long lives.

I have thought about whether taking the brains of other creatures and adults is murder, or just like one robot taking parts from another robot.

The greater our success, the greater our sorrow. Nature and the world should reward us and give us supreme glory, but in this underground labyrinth, glory is nowhere to be found, and all we have is helpless emptiness.

For me, loneliness is not a process, but an ending. It doesn't mean that you don't want to be lonely just because you hate being lonely.

If a person has enough understanding of life, he will no longer be keen on such a world.

"Old Will's Planet" is Ogawa Isui's first collection of science fiction short and medium-length stories, telling how different intelligent life forms survive in extreme environments. Isolation from the world, doomsday crisis, real and fake life, boundless loneliness... From individuals, teams to races, the protagonist of the story will find hope and the meaning of life in the crisis. If you have experienced life and death, togetherness and separation, and have had and lost partners, then you will definitely be able to resonate with them and have the courage to continue to grow.

Jules Verne, the 19th-century French science fiction master, is known as the "Father of Science Fantasy." His works are voluminous and all-encompassing. "Verne's Science Fiction Stories" selects many of Verne's famous works. Reading these science fiction stories by young people can help enlighten their wisdom and inspire their passion for and pursuit of science, thereby comprehensively improving their scientific and cultural qualities. By reading his works, adults can expand their horizons, improve their thinking, and cultivate their sentiments.

The long science fiction novel "Cloud Ball" tells a wonderful story that takes place in the future time and space around the protagonist Ren Wei and the people around him. However, "Cloud Ball" is not only a science fiction novel, but also a serious literary work with complex images and rich and profound thoughts, and even a philosophical work that extensively discusses human beings, society, technology, history and the future. If you want to truly understand the connotation of "Cloud Ball", you must fully understand the scientific worldview established by "Cloud Ball" and the huge impact this scientific worldview has on human emotions and rationality. This impact is not the dilemma of facing a specific problem often created in ordinary science fiction novels, but a kind of erosion, deconstruction and reshaping of basic human beliefs.