Inheritor of Planet 3: Superstar: When human thinking and artificial intelligence are perfectly combined,

Superstar is the last chapter of Hogan's trilogy The Inheritor of the Planet. Written in the 1970s, this book envisions a picture of human peaceful exploration of space in the early 20th century (2 1). After publication, he won the Japanese nebula award for best overseas novel twice.

In the first two books, the story begins with the discovery of human remains 50,000 years ago on the moon by space forces. Through earth scientists' step-by-step space "archaeological" discovery and scientific reasoning, we gradually pieced together the "history" of "human ancestors" fleeing across the moon to rebuild civilization, and accidentally came into contact with the real owner of the comet 25 million years later-a giant expedition of a coffee star (led by Companion). After half a year of peaceful coexistence and friendly exchanges with the earth people, it has a high degree of civilization but a gentle and rational nature (compared with the earth that follows the law of the jungle)

At this point, after the foreshadowing and promotion of the first two books, in the process of exploring the solar system, through scientific research on space relics and contact with aliens, human beings have gradually outlined the relationship map among the earth people, the moon people, the wise people and the coffee giant.

But there are still many unsolved mysteries, which will be further explained in the third film Superstar.

For example, how do survivors living on the moon after the comet war survive for a long time, and then move to the earth to rebuild civilization after the moon is captured by the gravity of the earth? Why did the Hui people who moved to the earth together suddenly fight with each other, which eventually led to the destruction of their families?

In the process of the story of the superstar, the evidence is pieced together one by one, and the puzzles are solved one by one in reasoning. However, with the gradual announcement of the answer, the highlight of the final article is no longer the excitement brought about by space discovery and communication with alien civilizations, and its sci-fi elements are not as good as before, but fall into the routine of conspiracy and struggle. Nevertheless, the brain hole of the story is still very big. Perhaps this is the charm of this mystery novel.

With the secret contact with the people of Surlien (the planet where the descendants of Kaxing migrated), human beings found that the whole race was involved in a conspiracy from the beginning of civilization-the equally aggressive and enterprising Jiewulun people obeyed Kaxing people to obtain advanced industry and technology on the one hand, and monitored and manipulated the development process of earth civilization on the other hand, so as to curb the competition of Homo sapiens in interstellar expansion later.

Under this logic, many puzzles in human history have been reasonably explained: some systematic beliefs that have existed since ancient times were consciously instilled by Jiewulun's "agents" to ensure that opponents spend a very long time rediscovering science and developing technology; Jiewulun "agents" were also planted among European aristocrats, thus provoking two world wars, in order to show Suli people that the earth people are a militant race that never gives up, thus making excuses for Jiewulun people to develop armaments; In the 20th century, human science and technology advanced by leaps and bounds, which was also intentionally conveyed by Jiewulun people, in order to induce opponents of the earth people to go to self-destruction. ...

Moreover, the ambition of the Jiewulun people goes far beyond this. Once the time is ripe, the Jiewulun people will use the technology of cafe people to block the cafe people, thus heading for the journey of conquering the Milky Way. They almost succeeded until the "black swan" female companion appeared. Once the "partner" touches the Suliren, all the plans of the Jiewulun people may be exposed in advance, so they will make an accident on the way to destroy the "partner".

Of course, all these conspiracies can only be seen through by people who have been equally familiar with intrigues for thousands of years on earth. Without the help and reminder of the earth people, the Kaxing people will eventually be no match for the competitive and ruthless Jiewulun people, and their "partners" will inexplicably disappear on their way home.

Kaxing people verified the reasoning of the earth people by secretly saving their "partners". And know the trick exposed Jiewulun people become angry from embarrassment, decided to put all your eggs in one basket, sent a heavily armed space fleet in advance, ready to attack unprepared Surlien star. This is a star war with great disparity in strength and almost no suspense in the result.

Incredibly, the hair-trigger massacre failed under the perfect cooperation of the psychological tactics of the earth people and the advanced artificial intelligence technology of the coffee star people. However, during the crazy strategic shift, the Jiewulun people unexpectedly returned to Venus 50,000 years ago through time and space, which further provoked the arms race of Venus and changed the historical process of Venus' immigration to the earth. History has thus entered an interesting cycle.

It must be said that Superstar gives a reasonable explanation for all the puzzles buried in the early stage of the series "The Successor of the Star" with a huge brain hole. In this sense, this is a masterpiece of science fiction in the 1970s, and it is also an inappropriate reasoning masterpiece even today.