Carl Sagan was a brilliant astronomer and a popular science writer. Perhaps coincidentally or predestined, it is these two conditions that have contributed to a rigorous but romantic science fiction novel, "Contact". The novel was later made into a movie, and the original alone sold for $2 million.
A very clever girl, with a bright light guiding her father, unfortunately he died. The stepfather and mother were clearly not in the same world as her. Or rather, she is at odds with today's society.
Girls who read too many books are not supported, girls cannot join the world of boys, and girls who are well-behaved and obedient are the greatest contribution to society. In fact, such a concept will not feel too strange even in contemporary times.
However, some people just stuck with it. She believed in science, believed in knowledge, had faith, and the time to wait for the response of her dreams took almost half of her life.
No one can describe how she felt when she saw her "father" in space, and no one could empathize with what it was like to finally receive a response after more than 20 years of single-arrow effort.
I think that's probably the most fascinating thing about Contact, which places the most romantic fantasy of humanity in the unattainable outer space, and this "fantasy" is like a signal light, it has a fatal attraction and is also out of reach, but its existence is enough to make brave people go forward.
However, the most exciting part of the journey to chase your dreams is to find yourself hit by dimensionality reduction.
In the famous science fiction novel "Three-Body Problem" on the mainland, a large number of physicists collapsed when the trisolarans told that the people of The Earth were "bugs". In "Contact", the heroine is also trembling by the identity of "ants".
When we think that we are "civilized" enough and "advanced" enough, we find that we may be like an ant in the eyes of the other party, the other party knows that you exist but never want to talk to you, and the little "ant" is trying to find a connection with the other party.
This is perhaps the most dramatic thing.
But the progress of civilization lies in the fact that there are always people who choose to constantly break their original "norms", reshape themselves, reshape the environment, and reshape their ideals. Even "bugs" or "ants" have a day when they can meet alien life.
Is this a story about science fiction? It can be said that it is a story of a strong, intelligent and persistent girl pursuing her ideals, and it can also be said that science fiction has given human beings a chance to realize their dreams.
The dream is: Is there really intelligent life in outer space? Are aliens looking for us too?
Have it? Only time will tell.
But imagination is always spurring humanity to progress, constantly exploring far away. After all, traveling the stars is really a very romantic thing.