200 1 a space odyssey-the source of mankind

The creative process of this novel is quite special. At first, director Kubrick wanted to make a sci-fi movie, so he invited arthur clarke to write a script and discuss it together. The film 200 1 A Space Odyssey was released on 1968, and the novel was published late. At that time, the United States had just implemented the Apollo moon landing program for several years. One year after the novel was published, Apollo 1 1 manned spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time, and human footprints set foot on the land of outer space for the first time.

After a few days of work, I was lucky enough to read this sci-fi masterpiece. After reading it, I thought for a long time, and my mood could not be calm for a long time. The novel is not long, * * * is divided into three parts, each part takes place in a different era and is connected by a mysterious "black stone".

1, at night

Long ago in Africa, the terrible dinosaurs ended their rule. In this arid and barren land, a group of apes live. They are not small enough, fast enough and cruel enough. In this law of the jungle era, they are not far from extinction. Moonwatcher is the leader of this group of apes. His father was injured and died in a predation. But they apes have no concept of time and long-term memory, and they will not feel sad for losing their father. They have more important things to worry about, and that is to fill their stomachs.

One day at dawn, the moon watcher and other apes found a rectangular black slate. They touched it with their hands, licked it with stones, and bit it with their teeth. Finally, they came to a great conclusion, "This stone must have grown at night, just like many plants."

At night, the slate suddenly shook, and the sound of vibration became louder and louder, more and more thrilling. Apes all moved forward like sleepwalking, and the moon keeper and his ape tribe gathered around the slate. Suddenly, a sultry and unspeakable phantom of the opera moved on the surface and inside of the boulder. The thoughts of apes are tested, their postures are recorded, they are studied repeatedly, their potential is evaluated, and apes evolve imperceptibly. Until one day, the apes found that the slate was gone, just as suddenly as it appeared. They also learned to use bones and stones to deal with fierce leopards and various harsh environments, becoming the first species in Africa to learn to use tools.

2. The Secret of Blackstone

Time flies. Today, hundreds of thousands of years later, in order to alleviate the population pressure, human beings have established an immigration base on the moon, and thousands of human beings have immigrated to the moon. At this time, a basement on the moon was suddenly isolated, and people speculated that there might be a "plague" here. Dr Freud is one of the few scientists who know the truth. The so-called plague does not exist. The reason why the basement was blocked was that in Tycho crater, scientists found a rectangular black slate-TMA-1. The ratio of length, width and height of the stone tablet is 1:4:9, which is the square of the first three natural numbers 1, 2, 3. No matter how sophisticated instruments scientists use to measure, the ratio of length change of Blackstone is accurate. What is even more frightening is that Blackstone was buried here for more than 3 million years, when there were no humans. In other words, Blackstone is the product of alien civilization, and human beings are not the only civilization in the universe.

This slate was dug out of the ground by scientists. When the first ray of sunlight shone on the slate, people around the slate heard sharp electronic sounds, as if the current was too strong, which caused the radio time signal to be distorted and extremely harsh. This electronic sound, like some invisible form of energy, goes straight from the surface of the moon to the distant starry sky.

3. The origin of mankind

Bowman and Poole are two astronauts of Discovery, and the other three colleagues on board are still sleeping. Bowman and Poole guard Discovery. They are called guards because they think that the real captain of Discovery is not these two humans, but a super artificial intelligence-Hal. Discovery's original purpose was to explore Jupiter, but after the discovery of Blackstone, the mission content of the spacecraft changed. As for the specific content of the task, only Hal, a dormant colleague and computer, knows nothing about Bowman and Poole.

One day, Hal told Bowman and Poole that one of the spacecraft's detectors was out of order and Poole went out for maintenance. During the maintenance of Poole, the space warehouse suddenly lost control and crashed into Poole. He ordered Hal to stop the space warehouse immediately, but it didn't work. So Poole and the cosmic warehouse disappeared into the vast space together. After Poole's sacrifice, Bowman became the only conscious human on the spaceship. He tried to win control of the spaceship, but Hal refused. He wanted to wake up three other colleagues in advance, but he never thought of opening the hibernation module. When the spacecraft was in a vacuum environment, Bowman hid in the space capsule and escaped, but all the other three astronauts died.

At this time, Bowman finally confirmed the fact that Hal defected and killed four other astronauts.

After learning the truth, Bowman frantically destroyed Hal's nerve unit. At this time, he also knew the real purpose of his visit. It turns out that the original energy wave from Blackstone was destined for Enceladus 8. The real purpose of Discovery's voyage is to explore alien civilization.

Discovery is like a boat, drifting in the vast space. Three months later, Discovery went deep into the huge Saturn satellite system. In Saturn's orbit, a huge black slate suddenly appeared in front of the spacecraft, exactly the same as that found on the moon, but bigger. The spaceship approached Blackstone gradually. At this time, Blackstone slowly opened like a dimensional gate, and Bowman's space warehouse passed through Blackstone and saw another vast universe.

Bowman saw that the creator of human beings, the creator of the highest wisdom in the galaxy, was born in another world like human beings.

When they mastered this ability, they began to set out for the stars. When flesh and blood are facing the extreme, when the machines they build are better than their bodies, it's time to move. First the mind, then only their thoughts, and finally they moved into a new home made of metal and plastic. They no longer build spaceships because they are spaceships. However, the era of robot body soon passed. In endless evolution, they learned to store their knowledge in the structure of space itself and keep their ideas in the frozen light lattice for a long time. They became creatures with radiant energy, and finally got rid of the bondage of matter and turned into pure energy. Thousands of centuries later, those empty shells abandoned by them briefly trembled in the unconscious dance of death and collapsed. They have become farmers, the vast universe is their farm, and human beings are just one of their crops. And Blackstone is just the medium for them to create life.

Bowman wandered in the black stone. Around him, thousands of miles of flames are slowly rising and falling, but he doesn't feel any heat. The empty warehouse landed slowly, and finally, the separation warehouse stopped on a bright and clean floor.

This is an elegant but unusual hotel suite. The furnishings in the house are almost exactly the same as those on the earth, but these are imitations. Bowman ate something in the room, took a bath, and finally fell asleep under the gaze of Blackstone at the bedside. When Bowman woke up again, he was reborn as a baby, a star child who knew the secrets of the universe. With the help of Blackstone, he evolved into a more advanced wisdom. Bowman soared in the universe and finally stayed above the earth. He stared at the beautiful blue planet, lost in thought. At this point, the novel ends.

The background of the novel is the 1960s. After reading it, I was impressed by the author's imagination and fell into deep thinking at the same time. We may not be the only life in the universe. Where are we from or where are we going? Can we break through the time and space constraints and explore more distant outer space? Can we abandon this flawed flesh and blood and evolve into a higher life? Of course, all this is unknown and can only be left to the future.

However, human curiosity is endless. Looking up at the stars, maybe we are slowly evolving.