"Books and Far Away" submissions | crossing Saturn's ring reading notes

As a science fiction enthusiast, before opening this book is with a lot of expectations, but the reading process is slightly boring, "Through the Rings of Saturn" is not a science fiction novel in the traditional sense, the description of Saturn's style is solid, but the story is slightly thin, but the detailed description of AI artificial intelligence and 3D printing technology, in general, to achieve the organic unity of science and technology and futurism, in fact, science fiction is not a complete fantasy, but a reasonable imagination based on the development of science and technology based on reality. This kind of imagination may not be too advanced, but it is precisely because of its reasonable part that people really yearn for it, rather than just looking at it and sighing, out of reach. As an author's transformational work, it is worth encouraging.

For the character setting of the protagonist super rich, it may be that the author is paving the way for the protagonist to have ai intelligence and 3D printing technology. This person is a bit like Tony Stark in the Marvel superhero movie "Iron Man" or Bruce Wayne in DC superhero "Batman", after all, there is a classic dialogue that is never outdated, and Spider-Man asks Batman: What superpowers do you have? Batman replied: I am rich!

The novel deals with many technical issues, connected through the protagonist's space travel, such as the interaction between artificial intelligence and people and its position in deep space exploration, the social and ethical issues caused by human cloning and the challenges of personal identity, the cultural shock brought about by genetic modification, and how multimedia technology changes the world in everyone's eyes. These discussions are the concerns of many science fiction works, and although the thinking given in the novel is not unique, it can also be seen from the words and lines that some of the shining points of the author's thoughts can be seen.

Of course, this novel also has some obvious shortcomings and deficiencies, in my opinion, the biggest shortcoming of the novel is the thinness of the character image, the protagonist has no growth history, this criticism of the first generation of superhero movies also applies to this novel, in this novel, the protagonist is like a tool man, many times just to promote the course of the story or for the author's desire to express.

Overall, this novel has a solid science fiction foundation, a magnificent and colorful alien style, a decent plot, a slight lack of character and story, and can be used as the first door to open the science fiction world for entry-level science fiction fans.

Unit: Guangzhou Planning and Natural Resources Automation Center Office

Author: Ji Wenrong