"Explosive Birth: 200 Years of World Science Fiction" is the fifth feature in the series "Interpretation of Masterpieces" in the translation lecture book.
We will use 30 episodes of audio content lasting more than 400 minutes to interpret 10 landmark works in the history of world science fiction literature for you.
From "Frankenstein", which was published anonymously by the writer in 1818, to "Clara and the Sun", which was published in multiple languages around the world in 2021, from the Gothic and horror on Earth to the interstellar war and travel in outer space, and finally back to the deepest love and hope of the soul...
Translation Storytelling Studio would like to invite you to witness the limits of human imagination for two hundred years.
In this feature, you'll hear —
✎ How did the marriage of Gothic literature and scientific experiments influence the birth of science fiction?
✎ As the fathers of science fiction, why are Verne and Wells one optimistic and the other pessimistic?
✎ The pursuit of a high-tech future of efficiency and stability is destined to come at the cost of dehumanizing?
✎ How can we distinguish between concepts and masterpieces such as the Golden Age, cyberpunk, and the New Wave of Science Fiction?
✎ Can the storyline of the online cool literary routine carry a serious literary theme?
✎ What is the history of Chinese science fiction? It almost got strangled in the cradle?
✎ Gray adult fables and warm children's stories, only a line between the Nobel Prize writer's pen?
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Course Outline and Bibliography:
01 Frankenstein
(Mary Shelley, England, first published in 1818)
Episode 1: Science Fiction Literature Born out of a Crazy Corpse Experiment?
Episode 2: Persecuted Monsters Allude to the Plight of Women?
Episode 3: Mary Shelley completely rewrites the Gothic novel?
02 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(Jules Verne, France, first published in 1871)
Episode 1: Does Poe Guide the Writing of the Father of Science Fiction?
Episode 2: Is the Nautilus the Ultimate Projection of Scientific Romance?
Episode 3: Is Undersea Exploration Free or Imprisoned?
03 Brave New World
(Aldous Huxley, First Published in 1932)
Episode 1: How did the dystopia novel develop?
Episode 2: Is There An Anti-Human Logic Behind Efficiency and Stability?
Episode 3: Do You Have the Courage to Demand the Right to Be Unhappy?
04 "I, Robot"
(Asimov, USA, first published in 1950)
Episode 1: Is He the Writer Who Created the Golden Age of Science Fiction?
Episode 2: Are the Three Laws of Robotics Full of Loopholes?
Episode 3: Is ARTIFICIAL inherently inferior to humans?
05 Solaris Star
(Stanisław Lem, Poland, first published in 1961)
Episode 1: Lem's presence humiliated the American science fiction community?
Episode 2: Must There Be Aliens Beyond Earth?
Episode 3: How Far Can Humans Communicate with the Universe?
06 Dune
(Frank Herbert, serial since 1964)
Episode 1: "Dune" is a nightmare for Hollywood film adaptations?
Episode 2: Is Space Opera Synonymous with Vulgarity and Boredom?
Episode 3: What's going on on a desert-covered planet?
07 "Will Bionic People Dream of Electronic Sheep?" 》
(Philip Dick, USA, first published in 1968)
Episode 1: Living badly in the cyberpunk world?
Episode 2: How does the New Wave of Science Fiction bid farewell to the Golden Age?
Episode 3: How Do You Prove You're Not a Bionic?
08 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Five Steps)
(Douglas Adams, UK, published from 1979 to 1992)
Episode 1: Why Do I Need a Towel for Space Travel?
Episode 2: Can nonsense comedy also be a science fiction classic?
Episode 3: The Answer to All Things Is the Number Forty-Two?
09 "Three-Body (3 Parts of Earth's Past)"
(Liu Cixin, China, serialized since 2006)
Episode 1: Has Chinese Science Fiction Reached World Class Level Today?
Episode 2: Liu Cixin's clumsy imitation of "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
Episode 3: How terrifying is the universe governed by the laws of the Dark Forest?
10 Clara and the Sun
(Kazuo Ishiguro, UK, published simultaneously worldwide in 2021)
Episode 1: How Do Nobel Prize Writers Write Science Fiction?
Episode 2: Is Love the Only Weapon Against Death?
Episode 3: Do You Believe the Sun Will Do Miracles?
Explosion: 200 years of world science fiction
▶ A comprehensive analysis of 10 fantastic works in the history of science fiction in the past two hundred years;
▶ From Mary Shelley to Kazuo Ishiguro, through the emotional storm of tragedy and joy, witnessing the vast limits of imagination;
▶ Frankenstein, Nautilus, Dystopias, Artificial Intelligence, Cyberpunk, Galactic Wars... Each birth is an early rehearsal for an asteroid burst;
▶ The Industrial Revolution, the Space Race, Interstellar Travel, Genetic Screening... Each end is a cosmic sigh of the psalm;
▶ The Shanghai Translation Publishing House officially self-made, using literature to observe the destruction and creation of science and technology, and to understand human sacrifice and prayer.
Produced by | Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Producer | Digital Department of Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Planning | Translation Storytelling Studio
Text | Li Yongfeng Ding Wenqing YOKO Tan Qingyun Chloe
Zhang Shuai Prince Wei Zhang Yufei Liu Xingyu Peng Zhiye
The studio | Chen Qiang
Design | Laprioli