Starlight: Tianwen

"Starlight: Tianwen" weaves a science fiction epic that spans time and space and integrates hard-core technology and profound humanities. The story begins in 2035 at Kuafu, China's thorium molten salt reactor base deep in the Gobi. Chief engineer Lin Yuan is facing a double crisis: the breakthrough thorium reactor technology has triggered a fierce competition between China, Russia and the United States, and his wife Su Qing's brain tumor surgery is imminent. The gears of destiny turn because of a Tang Dynasty bronze mirror fragment that contains the secret of quantum entanglement. It connects the lost star map of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, the Soviet Union's dusty "Moon Mirror" project, and the remains of prehistoric alien civilizations on the moon. The novel uses "thorium energy technology" and "Dunhuang cultural symbols" as a double helix, running through the interstellar exploration and protection of four generations of the Lin family: from Lin Yuan's thorium fire on the earth, to his son Lin Mo dealing with the ecological crisis of "Stardust Syndrome" and AI rebellion on Mars, to his grandson Lin Chen to reveal the ultimate secret of the nine-layer bronze mirror memory crystal on the moon and Xuanhuang Star, until his great-grandson Lin Yue piloted the "Dunhuang" to mediate the "Kunlun Ruins Memory War" on a cosmic scale. What they face is not only a technological challenge, but also an ethical torture for the survival of civilization - how to choose between greed and awe, conquest and symbiosis? "Interstellar Light: Questions from the Sky" explores the ultimate proposition of "the transmission of the fire of civilization", "symbiosis of science and technology and humanities" and "the integration of individual destiny into the rhythm of the universe". This is a civilizational contract evidenced by the galaxy, witnessing the magnificent journey of mankind starting from the cradle of the earth, with eternal awe and inquiry of the universe, and flying into the vast deep space under the guidance of the stardust bloodline.