072 My Wandering Earth
The science fiction book that Chen Yao thought of at the first time - "The Wandering Earth".
I have never seen the night, I have never seen the stars, I have never seen the spring, autumn and winter.
I was born at the end of the brake era, when the earth had just stopped rotating.
The two sentences at the beginning of the novel impressed many people who have read this book.
However, most people have never read the novel version, but have only watched the movie version of "The Wandering Earth".
The movie released at that time in 2019 set a new record for domestic science fiction movies, with a box office of 4.6 billion yuan, almost defeating "Wolf Warrior 2" and making it the first place in the list.
However, the movie version of "The Wandering Earth" is very different from the novel version.
The movie tells the story of the sun aging and is about to explode and die. Earth scientists built 10,000 engines on the surface of the earth to push the earth to escape from the solar system and find a new home.
It takes 2,500 years to wander in the vast universe.
In order to save the earth, Liu Peiqiang, played by Wu Jing, sacrificed himself to ignite Jupiter; and used the explosion's shock wave to push the earth to escape.
The original novel has no name from beginning to end, and is all described in the first person.
The plot of Jupiter was not ignited and self-sacrificing to save the earth.
If the crew filmed according to the original novel, "Rogue Earth" would definitely be a bad movie and would be scolded.
Not to mention the rest, the father of the male protagonist in the novel, that is, the astronaut, has a very poisonous attitude towards feelings.
He obviously had a wife and children, but he went to hook up with the elementary school teacher. He also told his child his mother with confidence that he fell in love with another woman.
Any hero image will be destroyed.
The next morning, Chen Yao finished dinner at home and started writing "Rogue Earth".
After making a cup of honey tea, put the cup on the table, Chen Yao sat down and turned on the computer.
It is impossible to copy books. I forgot many plots in books I read a long time ago.
Besides, the original work of "The Wandering Earth" itself also has many bugs and cannot be copied directly.
For example, the book mentioned that using 12,000 engines to push the earth out of the solar system has been calculated by science students. Not to mention getting the earth out of the sun, it will at most make the earth slightly off the orbit.
The 12,000 engines were installed in the continents of Asia and America. The plates of these two continents are solid and hard and can withstand the thrust of the engine.
Think about it seriously, you can really push an earth weighing 60 trillion tons. The earth's crust is as fragile as an egg shell. The "egg yolk" inside will surge out wildly. Wouldn't the earth's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions every day?
Is the engine still useful? Can humans survive? They kill themselves before they leave the solar system.
Of course, novels are novels after all, so you can’t be too serious, let alone science fiction, and fantasy is more important than science fiction.
If you really want to pursue rigor, you might as well read academic papers, and you can see that you are dizzy and can't understand it.
Of course, Chen Yao has found a solution to the above bugs and can be avoided perfectly.
The greatest charm of the book "The Wandering Earth" lies in its world view setting and its extraordinary imagination.
Many Western science fiction novels have strong individualism. When a disaster occurs on the earth, they and their friends flee in spaceships, and they can leave everything else alone.
Selfishness, this is what is called Western culture.
The cleverness of "The Wandering Earth" is to treat an earth as a spaceship and take all human beings away, including human civilization and ecology.
Tie the fate of all human beings together, wander in the vast universe, and overcome difficulties together.
The entire Wandering Earth Project will take about 2,500 years and 100 generations to work hard.
Human escape is divided into five steps: the first step is to stop the earth from rotating with the earth's engine.
The second step is to start the Earth's engine at full power, accelerate the Earth to escape speed and fly out of the solar system.
The third step is to continue to accelerate in outer space and fly towards Proxima Centauri.
Step 4: Re-rotate the earth in the middle, turn the direction of the engine, and start deceleration.
Step 5: Earth moors into the orbit of Proxima Centauri and becomes the satellite of this star.
A total of five steps, the brake era, the escape era, acceleration, deceleration, and the new solar era.
The original novel only writes about the brake era and the escape era, and there are no other ones. The whole book only has more than 20,000 words.
Chen Yao could write it for at least 100,000 words by himself. The book in his previous life was just an outline of a novel.
This world view setting is very grand and there is a lot of content to write.
Chen Yao will not copy it, and according to its world view setting, he can write more exciting science fiction novels.
The movie "The Wandering Earth" only adopts the novel's settings, and the plot actually has little to do with the novel.
If you follow the novel, astronaut Liu Peiqiang's attitude towards feelings will definitely curse after watching it.
In one of the plots in the book, the astronaut father takes the male protagonist and his wife to the beach for a trip.
Dad suddenly remembered something and said, "Ha, I forgot to tell you that I fell in love with Li Xing, I want to leave you and be with her."
"Who is she?" Mom asked calmly.
"My elementary school teacher." I answered for my father.
Then, the protagonist's mother said that her husband could be allowed to be with the primary school teacher.
My father also said that I would definitely come back if I get tired of playing with the primary school teacher.
Two months later, he came back.
If such a plot is placed in online articles, it will be absolutely toxic and you will be a super scumbag.
However, in the world view of the original novel, such a plot seems reasonable.
An explanation is given in the book.
In this era, people are puzzled when watching movies and movies four centuries ago. They don’t understand how people in the pre-Sun era could pour so much emotion into matters that are not about life and death?
In this era, the threat of death and the desire to escape overwhelm everything, and love has become irrelevant.
The sun is about to explode and the earth is about to be destroyed. What else can you talk about love? If you can be happy, you will be happy as much as you can.
Of course, Chen Yao’s views are a bit different. In such a world, human attitudes towards emotions may go to two extremes.
One is promiscuousness. Anyway, it is almost done. Ignoring all rules, marriage and love are not important. Men and women are together for physical needs and reproduction.
The other way is to still believe that true love is the only one, and just want two people to survive in dependence.
In modern society, love seems too fragile compared to rich material life.
Chapter completed!