"Star Core Secret Words" is a collection of science fiction short stories by science fiction writer Jia Yu, who is also the vice chairman of the China Geological Writers Association and has been engaged in the geological industry for many years. In my personal impression, geology has a strong trace of time, while science fiction has a distinct sense of the future, but in Jia Yu's pen, the two seemingly contradictory elements are perfectly combined and collide with wonderful sparks.
The book contains a total of five short science fiction essays, four of which are related to geology. In "Longmen Array", it tells the story of the collision between divination in Qiang villages and the science of modern society. The young man Lang Jiamu followed his father to practice divination and became the new Shabi in the village, and soon after, his father died in a major earthquake. After that, the government's "Longmen Array" project team came to the village, and in order to eliminate the earthquake, the construction of a large number of buildings in the sacred mountain, led by Lang Jiamu's sister Luo Tianyu, whose father died to save her. Lang Jiamu's several divination was a great omen, he thought it was because of the Dragon Gate Array project, but what he didn't expect was that the real crisis came from deep underground.
The Gantry Array project will collect and transfer earthquake energy to fundamentally solve the impact of earthquakes on human beings. Ancient divination pales in the face of modern technology, as Langamu himself said, divination can only see the future, but technology can change the future. In the history of mankind, there have been many mass casualty events due to earthquakes, and preventing them from happening is undoubtedly an almost impossible feat. Perhaps in the world of the future, such a miracle can be realized.
"The End of the Abyss" tells the story of a mining disaster that occurred in space, the future world of human beings came to the asteroid belt of space development, and the protagonist and the old chef were trapped in a sudden mining disaster. The old chef tells the protagonist about a mining disaster he experienced 50 years ago, and by revealing the truth behind the major mining disaster that happened on Mars that year, he warns future generations that they should pay attention to the damage and impact on the environment when grabbing resources. In the end, the old chef realized the atonement of his sins with his own actions, and also planted a seed of hope.
"In Search of Pheromones" tells the story of the spaceship owner Jiang Can and the Martian girl Lan Taoji's space journey. Jiang Can is secretly engaged in the smuggling business, and it turns out that in the future world, love has been banned by the authorities. A friend of Jiang Can's, a biologist, used plants to create "love seeds" containing pheromones that could help people regain love, and it was this seed that Jiang Can smuggled. Lan Taoji is a passenger who wants to go to Earth on Jiang Can's spaceship, and in the process, the two go from hostility to care and finally to sacrifice themselves to help each other. Jiang Can was surprised to find that even without the seeds of love, he still had love for Lan Taoji.
The setting of the Cerium Bacteria, a microbial that can transform minerals, in "The Lost Truth" is very interesting, and in the face of great benefits, people's hearts will quietly change. Behind the intricate stakes lies a demon full of coveting money and power.
Five wonderful science fiction essays bring people to think about science and technology and bring an understanding of human nature. Science fiction is not an unrealistic imagination, but an extension of reality, making bold speculations around the future.