未来,迫于环境恶化和人口压力,地球政府决定派出远征队伍,选取25岁以下的人类成员向未来移民。旅行队伍进行了多次停留,但每一次的地球环境都不再适合人类居住,最后一次航程,“大使”把时间定在未来11000年。在这未来的这个时代,地球基本恢复了原始生态,人类开始了新文明的起点。 In future, due to environmental deterioration and population explosion, the global government decides to appoint an under-25-year-old expedition team for immigration to the future. They stop for several times, only to find that all the earthly environments are not suitable for living. At the last trip, "ambassador" fixes time at the year 11000. In this era, earth recovers its sustainable ecosystem and human civilization comes to its new beginning.
I love short sci-fi collections like this. This book reminds me of the illustrated man by Ray Bradbury, which is another of my personal favorites. Each story has an interesting perspective about the universe and technological development. Cixin Liu's novels make me feel negligible against the universe, yet not in significant. My mind have not evolved to understand things in some of the alien entities described in this novel, so I feel that the human observations probably changes things in a quantum level and somehow reflects on the macro level, and that is what makes us significant. The ethical topics in this book are also interesting. I would reread this book after a while just to feel the mind-blowing effects from each topic discussed in this book and would definitely recommend this to my friends.