冰冷世界中的人性余温——评刘慈欣的短篇小说集

The Lingering Warmth of Humanity in the Frozen World——On Liu Cixin’s Collection of Short Stories

科幻文学为当下文学书写打开了观照现实与人性的新路径。刘慈欣的科幻文学在“硬科幻”的外壳与晦涩复杂的物理术语下包裹的是他对人类现实生存的深切悲悯,其以古典浪漫的人文情愫交杂着对未来科技的缜密幻想织构了对未来人类社会的生存预言。它连通了类型文学向严肃文学融合转化的通路。

Science fiction has opened up a new way to reflect reality and human nature for the writing of contemporary literature.Liu Cixin’s science fiction works,under the shell of hard science fiction and the obscure and complicated physical terms,is wrapped with his deep sympathy for the real existence of human beings.The classical and romantic human feelings mingle with the meticulous fantasy of future science and technology,and have constructed the survival prediction of future human society.It is a link between the type literature and the serious literature.