Asimov, translated by Ye Lihua, Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House, 20 12, 1.
After watching Galactic Empire 1: Base, I was disappointed, because I thought it was like a political novel, unlike science fiction, which was far from my psychological expectation. But for such a classic set of books, I think we still have to read them all to get a stronger judgment.
Most of the Galactic Empire 2: Base and Empire I watched this week was on the subway. On the way to and from work, I can read more than 20 pages per subway (reading speed is too slow, I don't know how to improve it), and then I can read a little at home in the evening. I finally finished reading this book with only 230 pages in one week.
This book is a little better than the first one, and it slightly satisfies my expectation of science fiction. There are many spaceships, high-tech equipment, strange alien environment and so on. But generally speaking, the novel mainly talks about the crisis of the galactic empire and base, involving war, political power, diplomacy and other aspects.
The story structure of Galactic Empire should be "beading" (this is a concept created by myself, so I don't know what the terms in literary theory are, so I'm too lazy to look it up), which means that the whole story is connected by a clue, just like a thread connecting the beading together. This story structure has appeared in many novels. Take Journey to the West as an example, and take Tang Priest and his disciples as the main line to learn from the West, connecting their eighty-one difficult experiences. Another example is "The Lord of the Rings", which is a series of stories in which a short hero with big feet sends the ring that inspires people's greed and evil nature to the volcano to destroy it, and connects all kinds of difficulties and obstacles they encounter on the road into beads. The same is true of the Harry Potter series, which takes the struggle between Harry Potter and Voldemort as the main line and connects many stories he encountered during his growth.
This story structure should be especially suitable for long series novels. As long as the author designs the main line, he can make up one story after another until the end. As long as readers grasp the main line, they can understand the content of the story in an outline and will not be confused. I still remember watching the movie The Lord of the Rings 1. After reading it, my mind was in a mess. I didn't know what the movie was about, so I bought The Lord of the Rings's original, read half of it (because the original is really not very good to read, so I only read half of it at present), and I made clear the clues of the story, so it was not difficult to watch The Lord of the Rings's series of movies later.
The series of novels of Galactic Empire is obviously a beaded structure, and its main line is the process of the collapse of the Galactic Empire and the rise of the new empire predicted by the great psychohistory scientist hari seldon, and the beading in this process is one after another "Seldon Crisis". The emergence and settlement of the Seldon crisis promoted the historical process of the Milky Way. The author's creativity is mainly manifested in that every crisis is different and the solutions are different.
Let me start from the beginning. Starting from the earth, mankind expanded to the whole galaxy and established a galactic empire with a radius of 50,000 light years. The capital is located in the center of the Milky Way on a planet called Chuantuo, with a population of 40 billion, which is the administrative center of the entire galactic empire. Surrounded by many star regions, there are many star regions under the star regions, there are many stars and their planets under the star regions, and there are also many independent business worlds.
From 65438 to 02020 after the founding of the Galactic Empire, hari seldon began a "history of psychology". He can predict the development direction of all mankind mathematically, so he predicts that the galactic empire will soon perish, and then the galaxy will have a wild period of 30 thousand years, and finally a new empire will rise. In order to shorten the wild period to 65,438+0,000 years, he established two bases at two opposite positions on the edge of the Milky Way, which preserved the advanced science and technology of mankind as the seeds of the second galactic empire. He also predicted various crises in the history of the galactic empire. But no matter what crisis happens, it can't change the historical process he predicted. With the development of history, hari seldon's prediction has gradually become an ancient legend, and the fate of the base has been repeatedly threatened, but there are still many people who firmly believe in Seldon's prediction.
Next, I want to sort out the Seldon crisis again and again in the form of a table, perhaps this way is more clear and clear.
I forgot the content of the first part, so I'll reread it next time.