I Really Didn’t Want to Be the Savior Chapter 410: The future of science fiction

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After Liu Kade, a mixed-race Chinese guy, recognized Chen Feng, the original Bai Shengsheng's face behind the glasses suddenly became bloodshot and red.

"You...are you Mr. Chen Feng Chen?"

Chen Feng nodded expressionlessly, "Yes. What's wrong? You know me?"

"My God! How could I not know you!"

Liu Card suddenly covered his mouth, so excited that he covered his face and wept, choked and trilled: "I...I...sorry I'm so excited. Last month I participated in a symposium with my teacher on your Part of the checking work for the conjecture set. I really... adore you so much! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I can't control my emotions. I didn't expect to meet you here. I...I..."

Master Chen looked up at the sky.

He thought of this sentence silently in his heart.

What a simple, honest and lovely young man.

How about...

I am guilty!

To be regarded as the best science fiction writer for at least a century, and also the target of his own plagiarism, is treated with such a adoring attitude, Master Chen has mixed feelings.

Wait?

It's not the first time.

Why am I still in the red?

Alas, this person, if you want to have a face, you can't do things without taboos after all.

Chen Feng, who is soft-hearted and short-handed, took about a few seconds to adjust his mood.

He patted the shoulder of the peer opposite him boldly, "Don't get excited, calm down, I'm not much older than you."

James Diaz coughed twice, signaling Liu Card to pay attention to the impact.

Hoo...hooho...

Liu Card took about ten seconds to take a deep breath before slowly calming down, embarrassed and reluctantly smiled, "I'm sorry."

Compared to Ryan, who is confident and arrogant, Liu Card is also a top student at Berkeley University, but his personality is much more humble and restrained, and he even seems a little inferior, and likes to apologize.

Chen Feng knew the reason.

Liu Card is very smart, but his mixed-race Sino-Russian identity makes him very embarrassed, and his personal characteristics are so obvious that others can easily recognize him at a glance.

Some experiences of being excluded in his childhood have always been hidden in his heart, creating an indelible shadow, which makes him not good at words, but only likes to record his thoughts in words.

"It's fine." Chen Feng waved his hand, "You don't need to be so excited, let alone belittle yourself. You can still be a great person in the future. I'm not that great either. I have the same nose and two eyes."

Chen Feng is a very polite encouragement.

He's thinking about whether he can do something about Liu Card, right as compensation.

You can't just give him money directly, then Chen Feng will be suspected of sexual orientation.

It's really hard to talk about just inspiration. Chen Feng didn't know how to supply the other party with a complete inspiration for a while.

Literature is no better than music.

The inspiration of music is often a short-term idea that inspires a long-term life experience, and then boils like a volcanic eruption, so Zhong Lei can be copied and stronger.

Of course, it is also possible that Zhong Lei is a genius.

What Liu Card was robbed by Chen Feng was a complete "giant world" that he had slowly constructed and completed in nearly 20 years.

Therefore, it is very difficult for Chen Feng to give him another huge world.

Master Chen himself is not a player who is good at creating stories, and it is a bit difficult to be strong.

"Mr. Chen, you are so humble."

"Should be."

At this time, James had already seen that Chen Feng attached great importance to the young man's attitude, and he simply let Liu Card, who was also familiar with the environment on the set, serve as a guide for Chen Feng.

He himself just got out and turned to consider the set being built.

James' arrangement is exactly what Chen Feng intended.

"Cad, let's leave a contact."

The two did not go two places, and Chen Feng took the initiative to exchange numbers.

Liu Card is flattered.

This guy deserves to be an excellent student at Berkeley. He has a wide range of knowledge, and his work is very serious and meticulous. Basically, when faced with important sets, he can tell the intention of James' arrangement.

Chen Feng listened with great interest at first.

After all, he's about to invest in a movie himself, so knowing more about the ideas of some of the biggest directors will help him become a good advisor in return.

But it didn't take long for Chen Feng to lose interest, because Liu Card's explanation was too detailed, and he knew the box office and word-of-mouth status of James's film. It can only be said that it is excellent, but it is far from being a classic.

About an hour later, on the beach outside the studio, under the umbrella of the sun, Chen Feng sat on a chair with his legs crossed, and Liu Carde stayed by the side very cautiously.

"Card, do you like science fiction?"

"Of course I like it."

"What's your favorite?"

Liu Card pondered for a moment, ""The King of Light", "Ring World", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", "Base" series."

Chen Feng gave a thumbs up, "Good vision. But have you found a problem?"

"What?"

“Many recognized classics and long-form sci-fi were mostly produced decades or even nearly a hundred years ago. Although there have been good and good sci-fi in recent years, the number of classic long-form works is completely incomparable with the past. Why do you think this is? Is it because today's readers are thicker than the past?"

Liu Carde was slightly embarrassed, "Sorry, I don't quite understand the meaning of the past and the present. My Chinese is relatively average."

"That is, contemporary people will always praise the previous stories and express contempt for the works of their own time. Even if the quality of these works themselves is actually indistinguishable."

While speaking like this, Chen Feng thought of Liu Card's own "Indestructible Galaxy" series in the early timeline.

This book became a classic and was adapted into a famous film, decades after his own death.

While Liu Card was still alive, "The Indestructible" was widely sprayed.

Liu Card chewed on Chen Feng's meaning, "I understand. But I think it may be that these amazing authors used the vision decades in advance, cut in from the perspective of pure fantasy, and found enough reasonable scientific basis, The theories of the future described in the masterpieces have gradually been recognized over the years. Technological progress has proved that some of the original theories that were purely overhead actually have a certain factual basis, so that their illusions decades ago have gradually become today's This is why it was named a classic."

Chen Feng smiled and nodded, "Yes, even if a certain book is wrong by a large part, as long as a few points are correct and the story itself is logical, then this book is a good science fiction. But this doesn't explain why there are fewer and fewer classic sci-fi in the contemporary era. You have to know that the books you mentioned just now achieved a huge influence shortly after their birth."

Liu Carde thought about it for a long time, then shook his head helplessly, "This is too profound, Mr. Chen, do you know the reason?"

Chen Feng nodded, "I do know."

Master Chen has a conclusion in his heart, but this is not his own creation, but a summary from many historians and literary and art workers in multiple time lines.

When human civilization entered the 21st century AD, with the passage of time, human beings seem to have lost their imagination, and the science fiction works created since then are not in the same generation.

Science is becoming more and more fantastical and unorthodox.

For example, in the eighth timeline, there are still works such as "The Three-Body Problem", "The Indestructible Galaxy", "Clockwork Girl", "Mr. Shadow" and other works in the 21st century, but they have been irreversibly declining since then.

By the twenty-fifth century, there were only one or two books left, one of which was Chen Feng's own biography "Feng Lei".

Master Chen expresses hot eyes.

In the 30th century, it was even worse.

Not to mention the masterpieces, even the movies are gone, which makes Chen Feng very painful.

One is that in his spare time in the 31st century, he can only watch "vintage old movies", and the other is that it makes him anxious whether human beings have really lost the ability to imagine the future.

That's why he devoted his energy to researching historical materials, and only then did he ponder the accepted views of scholars.

Now that he's going to give Lucard a little bit of advice, he'll start with science fiction in the 21st century.

"First of all, we can analyze a phenomenon. Do you feel that the elements of fantasy in science fiction, movies and TV series have become more and more heavy in recent years, while the elements of science have become less and less?"

Liu Card: "Yes. But why?"

“Because the more human beings know and the more they understand the nature of the universe, the balance between our pursuit of truth and fantasy will inevitably gradually shift towards the truth. Our imagination will gradually evolve with the advancement of technology. Slipping. Also, do you know what the definition of a good long-form sci-fi is?"

Liu Card: "Based on the present, focusing on the future, the future scientific background outlined should conform to theoretical expectations, and the discussion and description of human nature should have a real texture in sociology."

Chen Feng nodded, "That's right. Then I'll ask you another question. How many years does it take for an ordinary person to join Newton's laboratory to become an experimental assistant, and what level of knowledge does he need? Now, take yourself as an example, how many years of study does it take for an ordinary person to become a research assistant in a key laboratory at Berkeley University?

Liu Card gradually understood, "I understand. First of all, a classic long-form sci-fi cannot only revolve around a few characters and a single future technology, it must have a complete and sufficiently grand worldview. Then it must be involved in all aspects of technology in the future world. In dozens or even a hundred years ago, a good science fiction writer also needed a lot of books, and kept up with the technology hotspots of the times. They were both proficient and knowledgeable. But when we come to us In the era of 2009, with the rapid innovation of science and technology, the amount of knowledge accumulated by human beings is increasing, and the amount of basic knowledge included in each discipline is too large.”

“There are more and more hot spots of science and technology generated every moment every day, and some classic theories of the past have been subverted. To become a perfect science fiction writer, the knowledge that needs to be mastered is amazing, and the energy of human beings is amazing. If it is difficult to learn it, fallacies will inevitably appear in the creation and cause controversy. Therefore, it is becoming more and more difficult for people to write classic sci-fi novels now, and this difficulty will continue with the refinement of the social division of labor. further sublimation, and continue to increase.”

Chen Feng nodded, "Yes, your opinion is basically correct. Maybe in a few hundred years, there will be no science fiction and movies for human beings to watch. After a thousand years, there will only be one subject left in science fiction works."

"What subject?"

"Time travel."

"Uh...I see."

The topic is here, Chen Feng chooses to stop.

There are only so many tips he can give Lucard.

As far as Liu Card can go, it's up to everyone.

Next, Liu Card asked a little curiously about the questionnaire Chen Feng had done in China with Professor Oxford some time ago.

He wants to know if the results of the investigation are true.

Chen Feng told him of course it was true.

"So people who can speak Chinese will do so much better in the face of the apocalypse than those who only speak English?"

Chen Feng smiled, "Maybe, who knows. Before it happens, everything is speculation."

"Mr. Chen, I have an idea for a science fiction story."

Liu Card said suddenly.

"What?"

"I was thinking ~IndoMTL.com~ if there was a Chinese who could travel through a time tunnel in a thousand years, and really saw the end. Then the tunnel was very strange, whenever he was about to die in the end, Will bring him back to the present. And then he will pass again after a while. Do you think he will actually try to do something to change the future and save the end? What will he do?"

"Ouch I..."

Chen Feng almost jumped up from his chair.

I'm just giving you some hints, do you want to be so smart!

You are a monster!

Something happened to the caller.

It seems that "Feng Lei" will be hatched ahead of time.

Chinese? Think I don't understand the hints?

I'm still alive, and you're going to erect a monument to me?

What is going on?