Can science fiction really predict the future? Did the writer predict the future, or did the novel just spark an imagination of the future? In the history of Chinese and foreign literature, there are some science fiction novels that seemed impossible in the era at that time, but modern technology has made these impossible things come true. Today, Little K has compiled 6 classic science fiction novels that predict the future for everyone, let's take a look!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" >01 Frankenstein</h1>
By Mary Shelley
Predictive findings: modern organ transplantation
Frankenstein is recognized as the world's first true science fiction novel, and when Mary Shelley wrote it in 1818, science was just beginning to explore the revival of the death organization through electricity. Nowadays, organ transplantation has been realized in the field of medicine.
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In the summer of 1816, the Shelleys and Byron were on vacation on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, and in order to pass the rainy and boring time, Byron proposed that "each of us write a ghost story". Mary Shelley's crazy imagination born on a stormy night was eventually enriched into a book, shaping the classic monster image in the history of European and American literature. Incorporating a large number of romantic elements on the basis of the traditional Gothic novel, Frankenstein is recognized as the world's first true science fiction novel, it spawned an entire series of horror stories, and has been adapted into movies and plays many times, with many obsessive readers and audiences.
The protagonist of the novel, Victor Frankenstein, is a biologist who is passionate about the origin of life, trying to create life by hand, he tries to piece together a huge human body from the various parts of different corpses, but when the monster finally gains life and opens his eyes, Frankenstein is frightened by his vicious face and flees, followed by a series of strange suspense and murders...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" >02 451 degrees Fahrenheit</h1>
By Ray Bradbury
Predictive discovery: Headphones
Bradbury described a society of tech enthusiasts in 1953's 451 Degrees Fahrenheit, where all books were outlawed and burned. In this dystopian novel, he predicts flat-screen TVs as well as "seashells" and "thimble radios," portable audio devices and Bluetooth headphones that are no different.
451 degrees Fahrenheit is the burning point of paper, and the story of the novel takes place in a world that suppresses freedom of thought, where all books are banned and firefighters' job is not to extinguish fires, but to burn books. The protagonist of the story has been a firefighter for ten years, but he never doubts the work he is engaged in, until one day he meets a strange girl who begins to have doubts about his work.
So he decided to take a risk and challenge the world. Just such a group of "book people" secretly gathered, they all have amazing memory, burn the book after reading it, and then remember the content in their hearts. Those books are stored behind their calm eyes, waiting intact for one day in the future, when a reader will turn it over again... The work caused a huge sensation when it was first published more than fifty years ago and is considered an important masterpiece of dystopian fiction. In 1966, it was adapted into a film by the famous French New Wave director Truffaut.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" >03 2001: A Space Odyssey</h1>
Arthur Clarke
Predictive Discovery: Arthur Clark
The 1968 science fiction novel is about alien civilizations creating intelligent life on Earth, on topics such as nuclear war, evolution, and the dangers of artificial intelligence (the supercomputer HAL9000). But the most accurate prediction is that people use the e-book "newspad" to read it, which sounds like an iPad.
Humanity's imagination of space ended in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A mysterious slate spanning 3 million years of history, from 3 million years ago that prompted the evolution of apes to humans, to now guide humans to the deeper depths of space.
A journey through space spanning a billion kilometers from Earth to Saturn, humanity follows the guidance of higher civilizations in an attempt to find answers in space and in itself.
Is human civilization a natural evolution, or is it an experiment of a higher civilization? Where is the end point of the evolution of cosmic civilization? In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur Clark gives us the ultimate and magnificent answer.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" >04 Neuromancer</h1>
By William Gibson
Predictive discovery: cyberspace and computer hacking
Born in 1984, the book tells the story of a hacker and cyber thief who has access to cyberspace and restores magical abilities there. This novel gave birth to The Matrix, which is the cyberpunk Bible.
The novel's protagonist, Keith, is a cyber maverick who is employed by mysterious forces and is ordered to infiltrate the information centers of multinational corporations to steal classified information. On the one hand, he is involved in the information war; on the other hand, he has to find out who the mysterious mastermind behind the scenes is... As a computer cowboy, he can hook his nervous system to the global computer network, and in order to compete in the cyberspace, he uses all kinds of incredible artificial intelligence and software to serve himself. In fact, Keith does not want to dominate the world, he wants to transcend the shackles of the flesh, escape the ruined real world, and wander in cyberspace... The head of the scenes is unexpected, and the ending of the novel is thought-provoking.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" >05 "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"</h1>
By Jules Verne
Predictive discovery: electric submarines
Jules Verne was one of the most forward-thinking authors of the 19th century, predicting many things 100 years in advance. His most famous book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, published in 1870, predicted the emergence of electric submarines 90 years in advance.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the story of the naturalist Professor Aronnax who accepts an invitation to participate in the pursuit of the so-called narwhal, and unfortunately falls into the sea with his entourage of Conseil and the whaler Ned Rand, and they are lucky enough to swim to a floating "island" that is the "narwhal" they are tracking, the submarine Nautilus. Captain Nemo granted them freedom on board, but did not allow them to leave.
In this way, they followed the Nautilus on a fantastic journey under the sea. They traveled through the Pacific, indian, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, saw the wonderful and spectacular underwater world, experienced thrilling dangers, and repeatedly planned to escape without success, and finally returned to land in a desperate situation. The Submarine Nautilus was missing. Professor Aronnax made public his ten-month adventure.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" >06 Brave New World</h1>
By Aldous Huxley
Prediction findings: mood-boosting pills
The novel depicts what would happen if the world became a capitalist society of drugs. In this 1931 book, Huxley foresaw the problems of mood-boosting pills and reproductive techniques, as well as overpopulation.
Brave New World, published in 1932, is an allegorical work that presents Huxley's vision of the future of human society: through effective scientific and psychological engineering, human beings have been genetically and genetically designed to be members of society of all ranks, completely reduced to docile machines, individuality and freedom are stifled, and literature and art are on the verge of destruction.
Following Brave New World, a masterpiece of allegorical fiction, Huxley published his treatise Return to the Brave New World in 1958, in which the author used his rich knowledge of sociology and anthropology to compare aspects of modern society with the allegorical picture he conceived in Brave New World, such as overpopulation, propaganda and brainwashing, and chemical persuasion, arguing that the pessimistic prophecies of his early years were becoming reality. This book includes huxley's two most classic masterpieces.