Some time ago, the concept of "metaverse" really caught fire.
But Panda Jun looked at it and said: Isn't this what we science fiction fans have long been familiar with, shuttling between the real and virtual worlds?
Just like in the movies "Ready Player One" and "The Matrix",
The protagonist enters the virtual world through technological means to upgrade and fight monsters.
Perhaps it is the development of technology and the Internet that makes it possible to realize this state that originally existed in science fiction.
Therefore, the circle was quickly broken, and for a time "everything can meta-universe".
If you want to truly understand and play with the "meta-universe", Panda Jun strongly recommends that you read today's 9 good books that subvert cognition!
Neuromancer series
This novel gave birth to The Matrix!
Speaking of the "metaverse", The Neuromancer by William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk, is an absolute must-read!
The Wachowski siblings, the directors of The Matrix, are avid fans of the book! A lot of the idea for the movie came from this book!
Neuromancer is an outstanding exponent of the cyberpunk literary genre, bringing the word "cyberspace" into our world.
Providing countless inspirations for The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, and all the avant-garde music, fashion, games...
Count Zero is the sequel to Neuromancer, older, weirder, and more elusive. The Wanderer Epic in Cyberspace begins here.
"Re-enlightenment Na Lisa" continues the excitement and excitement of the first two films, and the finale of the "Neuromancer" series unveils all the unsolved mysteries.
"Substitute Body"
When consciousness is detached from the body, am I still me? We abandon our flesh for eternal life, but we no longer know who we are.
In the story of this book, future humans invent an artificial body that can store consciousness, the substitute.
People who are seriously ill can store consciousness in the surrogate to continue living,
But this technological innovation in the field of consciousness transmission has shaken the boundary between life and death.
There is a group of people who are trying to abandon the flesh and use the substitute body to obtain eternal life!
Watching these fanatical people sink into the abyss of consciousness, the panda Junser trembled and couldn't help but fall into thought:
When the "metacosm" is truly developed, will we also be lost in the virtual world and forget who we are?
"Small Town Talk"
The year 1999 we walked through, is it the real year of 1999?
The development of the concept of "metacosmology" has spawned a number of new ideas:
To what extent can the human senses be substituted or deceived?
In other words, how do you guarantee that the world you are in now is the real world and not a virtual world?
"Small Town Talk" is the latest work of Galaxy Award winner July! It is an extreme science fiction work full of imagination and youthfulness!
In the third-tier town of 1999, four ordinary teenagers, unknown creatures from parallel worlds, only they can remember the changes in the world...
They finally began to wonder: Is the past we have traveled real?
Is Our World Real?
Are you sure you're not dreaming now? Is it possible for us to live in a virtual world without knowing it?
Immediately after the topic of the previous book, this little book of popular science by a professor at Oxford University has put forward a soul torture question for us?
Could everything around you be a virtual world created by computers? Is it possible that you are just a "brain in a vat" in the distant future? ”
Don't think Panda Jun is talking nonsense!
The theory of relativity has proven that time is only an illusion.
Brain science has proven that when you think you're receiving information, it's just your brain "getting" you to receive certain information.
Perhaps we have already entered the era of the metaverse, carrying out the fate arranged by others?
If you have ever doubted the truth of the world, be sure to open this book, oxford professors will take you to find the answer!
The Three-Body Problem
Everyone should have a set of "Three-Body Problem" on their bookshelf! Wild imagination about the universe!
Da Liu and "Three-Body", Panda Jun Amway is not tired ten thousand times!
The book creates the form of the three-body world and higher civilizations,
Huge objects, complex layers, and large spans of time all provide endless imagination space for the construction of the "metacosm"!
As a Chinese science fiction god who conquered the world, "Three-Body" won nine of the world's top science fiction awards! Sweep 30 readers!
Obama, Lei Jun, Ma Huateng, Zhou Hongyuan, Pan Shiyi, Zuckerberg and other big guys pushed!
Regarding the "meta-universe," Liu Cixin has said many times,
He believes that the sea of stars and the virtual world cannot coexist. The future of humanity will either go outward to the stars or inward toward the virtual world.
But none of us know which one future humanity will choose.
A Space Odyssey quadrilogy
Liu Cixin: "All my works are poor imitations of "Space Odyssey"! ”
Mentioning Da Liu, it is natural to avoid his idol Arthur Clark.
The Space Odyssey Quadrilogy, Arthur Clarke's prestigious and recognized masterpiece, expands the breadth, breadth, and depth of human understanding of the universe!
In the past 50 years, it has influenced almost all science fiction works in later generations: "Three-Body", "Wandering Earth", "Interstellar", "Star Wars", "Avatar", "The Matrix" and so on.
The film of the same name, directed by the famous director Kubrick, has won 4 Oscars and has been hailed as the greatest science fiction film in human history!
This magnificent work presents the grand vision of human exploration of space and itself!
Tell the mystery of "who we are, where we come from, and where we are going"!
When we are addicted to the "meta-universe" and can't extricate ourselves, don't forget to look up at the stars!
The Complete Arthur Clarke Short Story of Science Fiction
Liu Cixin said: "All my works are poor imitations of Arthur Clark! ”
If you're worried about not being able to read the tome of "A Space Odyssey," you might as well start with a short story.
104 classic short stories, gazing at the universe like Arthur Clarke, confronting the smallness and greatness of human beings!
In Arthur Clark's Universe:
The true meaning of civilization is the black stone slab enlightenment from the alien civilization,
It is the encounter between the twilight generation and the dawn generation,
it is an elegy from a distant home planet,
It is a sigh on the remnants of history.
Human beings are a grain of sand in the vast stars, but they have a burning desire, dreaming of flying to the stars and unlocking the ultimate code of fate.
Human beings are greedy and tragic, small and great!
Galactic Empire
The best series of novels in human history.
No science fiction-related book list can avoid Galactic Empire!
It is considered the limit of the human imagination and tells the history of mankind for the next 20,000 years.
In the story, humans, with the help of robots, have embarked on a magnificent interstellar colony, with indelible ignorance and wisdom, greed and conscience.
Mankind has built a vast galactic empire spanning 100,000 light-years and a total of trillions of people!
As a sci-fi masterpiece that has inspired countless people in future generations, Tesla CEO Musk even sent it to Mars with a rocket!
In short, no sci-fi fan can miss Galactic Empire!
Dune six-part series
Every book list you'll read in a lifetime has Dunes on it!
Finally, it is the science fiction classic "Dune" series that rose to prominence last year due to the popularity of the movie, but in fact, the film only made one-tenth of the original book.
Erracos, the "spice" source that human beings dream of and compete for, staged a game of power and betrayal, fear and hatred, hope and dream.
This arid planet has another name – sand dunes.
Here, Paul, a young man with a broken family and a displacement, fights against his fate.
In the face of fate, he was so small, but so powerful.
Whether it is space or the "meta-universe", every time human beings face their own smallness, it is a huge progress of their own!
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