I remember meeting Academician Pan not long ago. He is a small man with a pair of square glasses. He looks a little rustic and his skirt is a little wrinkled. He always smiles and is very kind. Pan Lao is a famous hydropower engineering expert at home and abroad. He has participated in the design and guidance of many major water conservancy projects such as Xin 'anjiang and Three Gorges. Referring to his "idleness", Mr. Wang joked, "An academician writing science fiction is like a professor selling braised chicken ... An academician can make achievements in a certain field of science and technology, but there is no guarantee that his article will be brilliant-maybe he will not understand it, just like the braised chicken cooked by a professor may be difficult to swallow."
Pan Lao, this is modesty. I read his sci-fi works, and I couldn't put it down because of the bizarre ideas and daydreams in the book. The novel covers almost all the scientific inventions and technologies of mankind so far. The author's profound scientific knowledge skillfully combines the knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, water conservancy, electronics and biology, and the application of scientific terms in the field of hydropower is more handy, which comes from scientific imagination and is higher than science. No wonder Xu said that Pan Lao's works are "the combination of scientific phenomena and literature and art, and the crystallization of realism and romanticism".
It has been more than a hundred years since 1904, when Xiu Xiang novels published Xu Nianci's Moon Tribe novels, and China native sci-fi creation. Compared with the position of science in promoting the development of national economy, science fiction is still a bit suffocating, and it is still a bit backward in quantity and quality. Popular science circles are skeptical about the scientific nature of science fiction, while mainstream literary circles scoff at its literariness. Magic and fantasy novel compete for some readers with strong allure. The depression of science fiction has both historical and practical reasons. 1979 Professor Tong's Dead Light on Coral Island challenges the "popular science function" of traditional science fiction. Writers with liberated minds have no direction, trying to equate science fiction with "mainstream literature", making novels naive, shallow and secular. In 1980s, there was a huge publishing gap in science fiction. In the early 1990s, with the development of the world's scientific and technological revolution, the creation of science fiction finally reached a small climax, with high-level creative teams and various sci-fi periodicals and awards emerging one after another. However, under the impact and challenge of western cultural values, it is still very thin. Foreign sci-fi models such as Superman and Star Wars occupy the hearts of countless readers. Fortunately, creators who are not afraid of failure have the courage to move forward, and the sci-fi creative team that has been groping for progress has become more and more aware that it is an inevitable trend of sci-fi to take the localization direction.
When the child wearing a red scarf read aloud, "Thank you, Grandpa Pan. Your book has opened another window to our life, which has enabled us to learn more scientific knowledge, increase our imagination and understand a lot of truth. Only through hard work can we find inspiration and invent high technology. Science also has another side, which benefits and harms mankind. We should not only use it, but also control it. And these things have never been considered in our usual study. They not only enlightened my knowledge, but also enlightened my wisdom ... "We laughed, and Pan Lao also smiled. Under his simple appearance, there is clearly a childlike innocence to explore science, a passion to spread knowledge and a love for the future of the motherland! His great wisdom and wisdom are invisible! When the reporter asked him, why should he engage in the creation of science fiction? He replied: "My efforts are to localize, secularize and educate China's science fiction works."
More than 380 years ago, Francis Bacon, a famous western philosopher, said that academics can learn from each other's strong points, studying law can make people logical and precise, and studying mathematics can make people concentrate. I hope young readers who love science can also get more imagination and exploration inspiration from science fiction! We expect more scientists to write science fiction novels, guide young readers and big readers to dare to fantasize and innovate in a healthy cultural environment and explore the mysteries of nature and the universe!