There is always a moment in life when you want to escape from the real world and immerse yourself in fiction.
If you could enter a game world, which one would you like to enter?
Do you incarnate as a hunter in the world of Monster Hunter to hunt the Cologne species, or do you have an island in Animal Forest that you can dress up as you want?
Have you ever been obsessed with these games? Does that thrill of winning under intense thrills also make you addicted?
If the answer is yes, then be sure not to miss this book.
Today I want to tell the story of an invincible game master who traveled thousands of miles to participate in a game event.
But be careful! Because the more engaging the game, the more hidden the mystery!
Full-level players are forced to flee
Landing Alien level is 0
Our protagonist is named Goch, and as for his appearance or figure, we do not need to repeat it here, after all, in the "civilized" world, anyone can change their appearance and gender at will, and even control the length of life, and spend the rest of their lives happily in this utopia without money and violence.
But as a well-established gamer and game theorist in the "civilized" world, Gordy, who is good at perceiving people's minds and rarely loses, is clearly tired of this life.
It's like a full-level player squatting in a novice village every day, and before the rules of others have been figured out, he has already won.
It's just that the master inevitably has a chance to lose his hand. After all, there are "machines" outside of people!
"Civilization" as an interstellar utopia where humans and machines coexist, intelligent machines and humans have an equal status, and sometimes even surpass humans.
For his own purposes, a stubborn buzzing machine that likes to play with people's hearts, the "Hair Scale-Silk Shell", grabs Gochi's handle and threatens Goch to participate in a dangerous game that he should have rejected.
How dangerous is this game? Gordz spends five years traveling to an unknown star realm, Azad. It is a social system in which human cognition and moral laws cannot be explained, and everything is built on the basis of the game. Gordz needs to secretly observe Azad in the form of a game, and the rules, forms, and even the language system unique to "Azad" need to be learned from scratch. If you are not careful to become a loser, you will immediately lose everything and be slaughtered. (It's not as simple as losing your life!) ）
"Azad" means "organism," or "system," and broadly includes all organic entities, such as flowers, plants, birds, and beasts, and machines like me, such as a wheel wheel. The game evolved over thousands of years and evolved into its current pattern about eight hundred years ago, roughly the same time as the current institutionalization of the religion of the race. It hasn't changed much since then. The game was finalized when Iai, the home planet of the Empire, achieved supremacy and began exploring the surrounding space.
- "Gamer"
Thus, an unknown game of gambling on life and dignity officially began!
Brain burning + large scale?
This word-of-mouth divine work reads subverts the three views
It starts with a battle that is not a battle and ends with a game that is not a game. If the first Phoenician Apocalypse of Civilization was a game of real ornate rebuttals between humanity and the vast stars to save an intelligent machine.
Dystopian × game supremacy × reversed layer by layer, the first third of "Gamer" records a variety of real and fantasy game rules and battlefields, these fictional games that are perfectly aligned with reality take you into one bizarre situation after another, you can't help but want to burn your brain with the protagonist, and the degree of understanding of the rules of the game directly determines the reading experience, and even the cognition of the entire "Azad" social system behind it.
In addition to cracking the fictional game with the protagonist, be sure to keep an eye on the development and reversal of the story at all times. This word-of-mouth god book has a high score of 4.27 on Goodreads, has been translated into nearly 20 languages and published, and the story implies a triple reversal, bringing the ultimate brain-burning puzzle solving experience, which will definitely make you addicted!
When you are still overwhelmed with the plot and the game, a wave of brain hole settings hit you, and the style of the second half of the work takes a sharp turn, from a tense and exciting duel to a variety of large-scale dark sides -
Do you know what kind of programs can be seen on the TV channel of "Azad" that challenge the limits of physiological acceptance?
Every instrument of torture, every piece of tortured flesh, emits its own unique noise. Blood, daggers, bones, lasers, pieces of flesh, circular saws, poison, leeches, worms and even body organs, fingers and claws, each of which makes its own unique sound, blends into the screaming theme song like polyphony.
Do you know what the ornate little shops in Azad are peddling under the cover of night?
Walk past state-run shops selling medicines and drinks, walk past stalls selling religious statues, books, crafts, and ritual supplies, walk past tickets peddling death penalty viewing tickets, amputation tickets, torture tickets, mandatory tickets — the protagonists are mostly players who have lost the game with their bodies as their bets...
Do you know what makes an instrument that plays moving music on those dazzling stages?
Those drums are made of human skin, which is why a whole set of instruments is called "a family".
This game-supremacy star domain is like a legitimate "dark web", playing the most brutal performance at every moment. What makes people think about it is that these dark settings are not dark for the sake of darkness, nor are they gimmicks that attract people's attention, and each plot plot hides a critique of human nature and absurd reality, but also contains new subversions and reversals.
No one can rebel, and playing life or being played by others is part of Azad and part of the world we live in.
Britain's contemporary "national treasure" science fiction master
A creative talent like no other
Many authors in the science fiction circle can be called masters, but there are probably not many who can reach the level of "national treasure". M. Banks is one of them. Famous for his debut work "The Bee Catcher", he has been involved in the field of science fiction since 1987, creating a series of space utopia works with "civilization" as the background, known as "one of the three masters of modern British space opera creation", and all the media praised his creativity.
The gods of the science fiction circle also praised him.
Cyberpunk guru William Gibson hailed him as a "prodigious genius" in the world of science fiction;
Neil Gaiman, who created American Gods, is regarded as a representative of the new generation of fantasy literature, and strongly recommends Banks' works and advises readers to "read it";
Banks also magically opened up the science fiction circle and the technology circle, and Elon Musk and Zuckerberg, a pair of tech madmen who have been secretly choking each other, reached a consensus on the "Civilization" series;
Musk not only uses "magnificent" to describe "civilization", but also spares no effort to pay tribute to SpaceX and brain-computer interfaces; "Metacosmic" promoter Zuckerberg has released his annual book list, which has two science fiction series, one is Da Liu's "Three-Body Problem", and the other is our brain-opening and taboo "civilization"!
As an atypical space opera, Banksy's "Civilization" is regarded as a model for the new space opera, twice winning the British Science Fiction Association Award, nominating for nearly twenty science fiction awards including the Trajectory Award, and he continued to compose for the "civilized" world until the last moment of his life.
In his decades of writing, the "civilized" world he has built has become shockingly detailed. Whether it's buzzing machines, humans, or other alien creatures, or "civilized" languages, social systems, foreign policies, etc., Banks has given them vivid enough settings as if this utopia really exists in the vast universe.
This time, in order to invite fellow human beings on Earth to join the game, the newly listed "Gamer" has prepared the ultimate setting manual and exclusive bookmark of "Read the Manual First" for each player, welcome to board the "civilization" ship!
Luminous UV for an immersive experience with the vast starry sky at your fingertips!
If you are ready to start this game, please meditate on reality three times before you lose yourself in this cruel game.
Introduction: He is tired of life. He is an invincible game king and an insightful game theorist. However, the master is inevitably lonely.
It has not given up hope yet. It is an intelligent machine with a mischievous personality, and it is also a defective product that is seriously inconsistent with the initial setting, and can only run away in sorrow.
A person travels thousands of miles for the game, and an intelligent machine takes a side for the sake of dignity. In that star field where the laws of physics are completely invalidated, the story of human beings is unfolding. Reality is a game!
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