Reflections after reading "The Base of the Galactic Empire"

After reading a book, I believe you will have a lot of gains worth sharing. You might as well sit down and write down your thoughts after reading it. So how should you write your feelings after reading? The following is my carefully compiled review of "Galactic Empire Base" (selected 10 articles). It is for reference only. I hope it can help everyone. Thoughts after reading "Galactic Empire Base" 1

This is the first book in the "Galactic Empire" series. It describes the god-like Harry at the beginning. Dr. Seldon is discussing with mathematicians the future development trend of the Galactic Empire, a huge empire with Sichuan Tuo as its capital and covering the entire galaxy. Through a "psychohistory" formula created by Dr. Seldon that can use mathematical tools to calculate the future, the mathematician was surprised to find that the entire empire would actually collapse after the third century!

Nowadays, senior personnel on Sichuan Tuo have long known about this prophecy, so they smartly exiled Seldon to a place that the doctor had long expected: the Terminus. There, a plan to create a Galactic Encyclopedia to revive the Empire would be carried out: the Seldon Project. However, this is all just an illusion.

This book is written by the famous science fiction writer Asimov. His writing style is very concise, but there are foreshadowings everywhere, making the following chapters more exciting and realistic. He uses the Seldon crisis in "The Seldon Project" as a clue to draw readers into this wonderful artistic conception. Moreover, he discovered the flaws in the seemingly unsolvable questions in the book, and used clever writing skills to draw out a few "wise men" and let them explain the real answers to you. The author has novel ideas and outstanding imagination, and slowly unfolds the picture of the Galactic Empire for readers.

I can’t help but think that if such a powerful galactic empire has survived for tens of thousands of years, but fell apart due to people’s selfless entertainment and the corruption of the king, then our current society is absolutely extremely happy. Isn’t it rare to see no obvious corruption in a complex political center? We must cherish these beautiful "golden years". At the same time, we cannot be as extremely feudal and focused on the past as we were during the 50 years since the construction of the base, but we must pay homage to Seifer, who launched the revolution. Mayor Harding learned from him and his forward thinking that kept pace with the times.

The breeze entered the bedroom and quietly calmed my restless mind. "Force is the last resort of the weak." I thought about Mayor Harding's famous saying over and over again, silently admonishing and warning myself.

Asimov's works are extremely grand and astonishing to me, but I think his most outstanding work is still the "Galactic Empire" series of novels. After reading "Galactic Empire Base" 2

I have always been interested in popular science books. It happened that the teacher asked us to read a popular science book, which made me very excited. I have long been familiar with the works of Liu Cixin and Paul Bacigalupi. I have read many science fiction novels, and I accidentally discovered a science fiction novel - Asimov's "Galactic Empire", which immediately whetted my appetite, like a hungry tiger pounces on food. Read it as if.

Hari Seldon was born in the prosperous Galactic Empire. He is a mathematician who predicted the complete demise of the Galactic Empire in three centuries with an accuracy of 98.4%! However, the Public Security Committee believed that Harry Seldon was cursing the Galactic Empire and exiled him to Terminus. Seldon had already recruited 100,000 mathematicians by compiling encyclopedias, and started an experiment to save the Galactic Empire based on Terminus. When the base was about to break, Sever Harding established a religion to make people believe in the base, to rise up the base. Hubbard Marlowe helped the base expand and gave it economic resources. Thanks to their efforts, the Galactic Empire finally improved.

These three characters stand out clearly in front of me. They are all responsible, dare to try, and benefit future generations. It is precisely because of this that they can eventually become the leaders and continue to change the future of the Galactic Empire.

Think about us, if we also have the excellent qualities of the three of them, will we still be unable to solve those troublesome Mathematical Olympiad questions? Will you give up your only chance?

A few days ago, I was doing a Mathematical Olympiad question, but I couldn’t figure out the answer no matter what I did. Finally, I threw the pen away in anger and ignored the question. Now that I think about it, I didn’t think about it from other angles. If you don't think about it and keep studying it, how could you possibly solve this problem? So I calmed down and thought about it carefully for a long time, and finally I did it and it was completely correct. I was so happy!

Is "Galactic Empire 1: Foundation" written by Isaac Asimov just telling the story of the Galactic Empire from wealth to decline? It not only reflects the gradual development and progress of science and technology and mathematics, but also tells me that as long as you dare to try, work hard and strive for it unremittingly, there will be a reversal and even success! Thoughts after reading "The Base of the Galactic Empire" 3

Ever since the American Elon Musk sent a red Tesla sports car into space on a rocket, everything about the sports car has attracted much attention. The set of "Galaxy Empire" carried in the sports car has been selling well in major bookstores and websites. Due to the lively publicity in the self-media and strong recommendations from friends, I also put this set of books on my bookshelf.

Asimov's "Galactic Empire" made Elon have a strong interest in space, sowing the seeds for his plan to immigrate to Mars. Now many parents have bought this set of books for their children, and schools also encourage reading such science fiction novels to stimulate children's interest in exploring the universe. Maybe in the next century there will be many scientists like Elon who will devote their lives to exploring outer space so that future generations can find a beautiful planet to live on at the other end of the galaxy.

If this set of books hadn’t been sent to space, and if too many people hadn’t recommended this set of books, I would have thrown this book away after reading the first chapter. I have read too many modern online novels about fighting for hegemony in the universe, and the concept of this book is far from novel to me.

The decay of the Galactic Empire, a group of Seldon's believers established a base at one end of the galaxy. The base is like a small tree, experiencing wind and rain and growing vigorously. The General Communist Party has experienced three Seldon crises, the first political crisis, the second religious crisis, and the third trade crisis.

The only difference from current online novels is that the spiritual leader Seldon is dead. In modern novels, there is usually a miserable young man who has struggled since he was a child, riding on all kinds of bad luck, leading his base to grow, dominate the galaxy, dominate the universe and even parallel universes.

The biggest difference from modern online novels is that the book Base is so short. It only took me two days to finish reading it. Maybe it's because I've only read one of them, while there are dozens in the entire Galactic Empire. I always felt that the plot of the base developed too fast, and 30, 50, and 75 years passed by in a flash. When reading a book, there is no sense of immersion, like a fast-forwarding film playing the development of a base. It would be great if I wrote another 100,000 words about the specific process in the middle. Thoughts after reading "Galaxy Empire Base" 4

Recently, I read a book called - "Galaxy Empire Base". Although it is a bit confusing, I still have three indispensable chapters in this book. characters left a deep impression.

Hari Seldon is a very foreseeable person who is willing to dedicate everything to his career. Moreover, he and a large group of scientists established this base on Terminus. He used powerful technology to enable the base to survive.

Sever Harding was one of these scientists. He made this base rise, and he also used religion to make the base more mysterious. Likewise, he also had the courage to challenge authority.

Hubbard Marlowe is also very powerful. He not only uses his ability to expand the base, but what is more valuable is that he also has his own independent ideas.

Through the stories of these three people and their character traits, I feel that these are some characters that are very lacking in modern times.

Nowadays, there are many people who are not as motivated as Severe Harding to challenge authority. Of course, this includes me. Instead, they blindly believe that what the authority says must be right, and dare not say anything. deny. However, authorities are also human beings, and who doesn’t make mistakes? Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, so we should have the courage to challenge authority (but we can't talk nonsense or look for trouble).

This will always be embarrassing, after all, "the sun always comes after the storm".

At the same time, we must also have our own ideas, otherwise, if we slowly become "soft rice" (meaning we only listen to other people's ideas without thinking about ourselves) if we eat too much, we will become a person without ourselves. An opinionated person. This is the most terrible thing. Listen to what parents say: If you don’t think about it all the time, your brain will get rusty and eventually it will no longer function. Therefore, we must think more independently and, like birds, strive to break through the constraints of the birdcage and fly into the embrace of the blue sky. Review 5 of "The Base of the Galactic Empire"

In Galactic Era 1, 2020, Hari Seldon, a 32-year-old mathematician, created a brand new subject - "psychohistory", which did not Unlike its name, it is neither psychology nor history. It can use mathematical formulas to accurately deduce the future of all mankind.

Seldon’s first prophecy was: Although there was no warning, the Galactic Empire, which had existed for twelve thousand years, was about to perish. Although psychohistory can come to the rescue, it is too late. In order to compress the 30,000-year Dark Age after the destruction of the Empire into a thousand years, Seldon arranged for 100,000 people to compile the "Galactic Encyclopedia" on Terminus, a desolate planet located at the forefront of the spiral arm of the Galaxy. This is the First Base. In the next thousand years, they will have the most cutting-edge technology, even surpassing the empire.

Thanks to Seldon, the first base spent the next 300 years smoothly, but the appearance of the "mule" almost caused the entire Seldon plan to collapse. The Second Foundation - a group distinguished by their spiritual powers and central to Seldon's plan - help expose their own existence to the First Foundation. For more than 200 years since then, the First Base has concentrated on eradicating the Second Base. With their cutting-edge technology and wisdom, the Second Base has already permeated their lives when they thought they were successful.

In the year 498 of the Base Era, the future fate of the galaxy is determined by one person's thoughts. This is Glen Trevize. He must make a decision between the First Foundation, the Second Foundation and Gaia about who will lead the future of the galaxy: the new empire created by the First Foundation will lead the galaxy into a century of technological prosperity, but will be like the First Empire That was destroyed in the war; the new empire guided by the Second Foundation would be able to ensure the eternal peace of mankind, but thus became a patriarchal empire; and the Gaia galaxy with Gaia as the blueprint would be a psychic entity, All human beings will merge with all things into a good whole. Trevize intuitively made a choice, but was not sure whether his choice was correct. He suspected that there was a more powerful manipulating force hidden in the universe. Trevize believes that the Earth is the key to solving all mysteries because it is the origin of mankind. Strangely, all the information about the Earth in the Milky Way has mysteriously disappeared. Thoughts after reading "The Base of the Galactic Empire" 6

I finally finished reading this series of 7 books on the run and had endless aftertaste. When I was reading a book, I was thinking about how to write about my feelings, but I found that it was like being trapped in the vastness of the Milky Way, with lights shining everywhere, but it was difficult to make sense of it. Today I looked back at my thoughts after reading "The Base of the Galactic Empire". I revisited my feelings when I first read the book and answered some of my previous confusions. Why not talk about the issues mentioned in the previous article? own thinking.

The first is Hari Seldon’s motivation for founding psychohistory and establishing a base. This part of the content has a detailed process in Parts 4 and 5 (i.e., "Prelude to the Base" and "Toward the Base"), which tells the story of how Hari Seldon started from a paper and moved step by step towards the creation of psychohistory and the establishment of the foundation. . It is said that these two books were completed by Asimov in the last five years of his life. Through these two books, he wrote a biography of his favorite protagonist Hari Seldon. When I read, I also adopted the order written by the author: 1-2-3-6-7-4-5. The last two books I read greatly sublimated the emotions of the entire series. When you start from the first crisis of Terminus, and after experiencing the entire process from Base to Mule to Second Base to Gaia Galaxy and back to Earth, look back at how the god-like Hari Seldon created his The shocking psychohistory is quite interesting. It has to be said that the novel is so successful in shaping the characters. The readers not only experienced adventurous adventures with the characters, but more importantly, they felt the growth of the characters from the age of 32 to 82. In contrast, "The Three-Body Problem" "The characters' experiences are boring and pitiful.

Hari Seldon, under Hummin’s expectations and under the protection of Dors, continued to flee and think, and finally found a feasible way to establish psychohistory, and also discovered an astonishing secret, claiming to be a journalist. Hummin is not only the Prime Minister of the Empire, Demerzel, but also the legendary servitor Daniel, and Dors, who has been protecting him, is also a robot. However, he has fallen deeply in love with her and is willing to join hands with her, even if she is a robot and cannot have children. In order to protect Seldon, Dors was plotted and stopped. Before she died, she said to Seldon: Thank you, thank you for your love for me and making me a real human being. Dors's departure became a wound in Seldon's heart that was difficult to heal, and his love for Dors was one of the motivations for his research and creation of psychohistory. Not to save anything or gain anything, just to be with her.

Secondly, there are few female roles. After reading it, I realized that the female characters in the book are so brilliant, and each one of them is a good player in saving the galaxy. Beda who stopped the mule, the ghostly Egadia, the powerful mayor of Burano, the all-powerful girl Boris, and Seldon's lover Dors, etc. It is completely different from the female characters in "The Three-Body Problem" who were purely for decoration. Every female character is not only vivid, but also plays an important role at critical moments. The author has a very subtle grasp of the differences between the sexes and their respective strengths and weaknesses. In the early days of the base, expanding the territory was the top priority for development, so there were more male characters, and their characters were heroic, intelligent and brave. With the development of the base and the emergence of the second base, which symbolizes spiritual power, more and more women play roles. Even the intuitive thinking of Trevize, the final male protagonist, made me feel very feminine. And the intersex people who finally appeared made me feel that the author's pattern is really big. Not only does he not discriminate against any gender, he is even thinking about how humans will develop beyond gender.

Finally, I want to talk about my gains. I can’t help but say that the advantage of reading classics is that you can gain something every time you read them. This time, the biggest inspiration is mind control, which broadens my communication ideas. Thoughts after reading "The Base of the Galactic Empire" 7

First of all, this is a tome of 1.5 million words. It is also one of the novels with the greatest influence in the world of science fiction. In 1965, the World Science Fiction Association awarded a very valuable award, calling it the best series of novels in human history. The Base novel defeated "The Lord of the Rings" (also known as the Lord of the Rings series) and won this award, winning the science fiction award. The highest award in the novel world. This book has the greatest social influence among science fiction novels. It has influenced a generation's scientific outlook. I have read this record: There was a meeting of NASA scientists, and someone asked him to raise his hand if he was a fan of the base, but everyone raised their hands.

This is the impact on scientists. On the other hand, this book also influenced a special person called bin Laden. After 911, the British Guardian interviewed bin Laden. Bin Laden made it clear that "Al Qaeda" was influenced by "Al Qaeda". The novel "Base" was named because what he did was the same as the protagonist of "Base", and it was a just cause. Therefore, the "Foundation" novel has influenced the smartest brains in the world, and at the same time influenced the most extreme brains in the world.

Secondly, this is a work that has not been completed in a lifetime. It has been written for 50 years and is mainly divided into three stages. The first stage was in the late 1930s when the editor-in-chief of a magazine called "Amazing World" discovered that a young man named Asimov had submitted articles to the magazine. , nine times without success. The editor thought this young man had a future, so he asked him to have a meal with him. He felt that this young man was talented, so he encouraged him a few words, so Achimov submitted the tenth draft. In May 1942, a short novel called Base was published.

Asimov recalled that he was inspired by "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" at the time. Could he write a step-by-step history of the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire? Then over the next eight years, he wrote many novellas and short novels around the framework set up by this machine. They were all published in magazines, forming a community of stories about Base, which later became the first trilogy of Base. After writing Three Steps, Asimov was just 30 years old. Asimov never wrote this series after that because he felt that the series was finished. But the readers didn't think so, and kept urging the manuscript until a publishing house offered Asimov a manuscript fee of 50,000. As long as he started writing, the 00 manuscript fee would be yours.

Asimov thought, just give it a try.

In 1982, after a lapse of forty years, Asimov began to continue writing about the base and wrote his new understanding into the base. This is where I wrote the fourth and fifth parts, ending the article in a huge cave. This is the second stage of base writing. The third phase was the last four years of Asimov's life. Instead of continuing the story according to the previous series, he wrote two prequels. When Asimov passed away, Chapter 5 of Step 7 had just begun, and later he found a master to complete the novel. Just like Dream of Red Mansions, it is a continuation. At this point, Part 7 of "Foundation" has finally been completed. After reading "Galactic Empire: Base" 8

"Galactic Empire: Base" talks about a problem of knocking on ice and seeking fire: how to pass through one of the hundreds of billions of planets in the Milky Way, located in the desolate area on the edge of the Milky Way. A small planet to change the future trend of the entire galaxy?

Human beings have lived on a small planet (they call it "Earth") for more than 100,000 years and have established more than 200 administrative regions (they call it "country"). With the help of the first thinking robot on earth, master the technology to transform alien planets and start the interstellar colonization movement. Human beings have multiplied like locusts in the Milky Way. With their ignorance and wisdom, greed and conscience, they have dragged the Milky Way into the interstellar Warring States era. Until the Milky Way is unified into an empire that governs more than 25 million inhabited planets, a territory spanning 100,000 light-years, and a total population of trillions - the Galactic Empire. In 12020 after the founding of the Galactic Empire, Hari Seldon, a 32-year-old mathematician, created "psychohistory". This subject uses mathematical formulas to deduce the future of mankind. During the Empire's decline, Seldon foresaw that the galaxy would experience thirty thousand years of darkness. He gathered the best scientists to build a "base", hoping that it would become the hope of mankind. However, the empire declined and the base was surrounded by powerful neighbors. Humanity faces a choice: be controlled? Or fight?

The previous three Seldon crises were all resolved by a certain leader. I can't help but wonder if it was not Harding who gained control of Terminus, but the Encyclopedia Committee. What if Marlowe's trader hadn't appeared, but a successor who continued Harding's policies had taken over. Has history changed? Is history accidental or inevitable? If those small accidental events in history are deviated, will history lead to completely different results?

Of course, Asimov's "psychohistory" has an explanation for this. Psychohistory predicts macro-historical developments rather than micro-individual actions. Therefore, Asimov's hypothesis was that even if Harding and Marlowe did not master the power of Terminus due to various uncertain reasons, other "heroes" would appear to help the base survive the crisis. In the words of the book: "We blindly believe in Seldon's psychohistory - one of its most important premises is that individual actions never count and are never enough to create history. Because complex social and economic currents will drown him, Making him a puppet of history. ""These attempts are like ripples on the water, and Seldon's waves continue to move forward, quietly but unstoppably."

Is human free will so worthless in history? Is the hard work of millions of people just a drama controlled by history? So what is the meaning of our existence as human beings? Thoughts after reading "The Base of the Galaxy Empire" 9

Looking up at the stars, the vast Milky Way outside the sky has aroused the imagination of countless people; looking up at the future, the unknown future of mankind has aroused many people's speculations. And Isaac? The "Galactic Empire" series written by Asimov is one of the brightest crystallizations.

Although I have only read one of them - "Foundation", I have been attracted by its grand world view and progressive plot: this book tells the story of human beings starting interstellar colonization The movement then unified the galaxy and established the Galactic Empire. Ten thousand years later, Harry? Seldon pioneered "psychohistory" that could accurately predict the future, thus predicting the empire's imminent collapse. In order to revive the destroyed civilization as soon as possible, he established a base on the "Terminal Star" where the empire had exiled him, and officially launched a great rescue plan.

In fact, I was a little disappointed when I first read it, because although the book is euphemistically called "Galactic Empire", the author actually has very little ink on the macroscopic description of the empire and the universe, and even more Most of them explain the politics and technology of the empire with the support of many personal language descriptions and psychological descriptions.

I am used to hard science fiction like "The Three-Body Problem" that shocks the soul through fantasy and imagination. Soft science fiction like "Galaxy Empire" that mainly talks about humanities and sophistication is indeed a bit unappetizing. However, when I read in depth, I discovered its extraordinary charm.

The entire story of "The Base" is based on the origin of the base and the three crises it has experienced, and connects many short and medium-sized stories together. Each article tells a character's deeds and thoughts from a character's perspective. Compared with the "God's perspective" commonly used in other novels, the content expressed in this method is very limited, which also made it more difficult for me when I first read it. But every time the characters in it explained the amazing plan in a personal tone and a plain tone, deciding the outcome of a war, this kind of soul-stirring feeling of "while talking and laughing, the cannons and oars disappeared into ashes" made me realize A completely different feeling than God’s perspective.

The main plot of this book is the conflict between the base and the surrounding kingdoms, and the efforts of several heroes in the base to turn the tide. The cause of the first crisis was that the four surrounding kingdoms were eyeing the base's technology, but the base was militarily weak and found it difficult to resist. Sever Harding, a hero of the base, lobbied all countries to make them suspicious of each other and then checked and balanced each other. No one dared to take the base as their own. The base used science and technology to educate the citizens of the kingdom in a religious form. So during the second crisis, the ruler of one of the kingdoms tried to start a war, but was dismantled by the crazy believers before the war started. During the third crisis, the planet Corell declared war on the base, which banned preaching and selling technology. However, the base had been conducting technology trade with it before. The interruption of trade made the people of Corell miserable, so they had to end the war.

Deterrence balance, religious rule, economic constraints, if you think about it carefully, the solutions to these crises all allude to the real world, and each of them confirms Sever Harding's words: "Force is incompetent. last resort". Indeed, after contacting the collision between the two countries in reality, I understand that sometimes the use of force may not be the best choice. This also makes me firmly believe that "Galaxy Empire" is a social work cloaked in science fiction.

Although I have only read "Galactic Empire?" "Base", even though its world view and theme have not yet been fully revealed, its humorous language style and wonderful plot development have deeply attracted me. This soft-but-hard science fiction novel also gave me an extraordinary pleasure.

I'm looking forward to reading the other fourteen books in this series. After reading "Galactic Empire Base" 10

Different from the first two parts of "Galactic Empire", this is the first time I read this book. I can only say that it is very exciting and overturned a lot of my opinions on the first chapter. Speculations in Part 2.

In the second part "Galactic Empire﹒ "Foundation and Empire", I guess that the Second Empire that Seldon refers to should be a more democratic and stronger political system. And in this third installment, my guess was proven wrong. The first speaker of the Second Base explained that the so-called Second Empire will have psychologists taking charge of the leadership of the entire empire. Only in this way will the empire be more peaceful and long-lasting. However, even if this is the explanation of the first speaker of the Second Foundation, I am not sure now that this is the Second Empire in Seldon's plan in the true sense. After all, there are too many reversals in the whole book, and I'm sure this is one of them.

There are two small and insignificant details in the article, which I think are quite interesting. First, Egadia bought a ticket at a ticket vending machine when she fled to Trantor. Asimov described this in detail. The process of buying a ticket was no different from buying a ticket from a ticket vending machine in a train station today. It's interesting to see how science fiction descriptions come to life in real life. I dare not say that in the whole world, but as far as China is concerned, it has entered a paperless society. The ticket vending machine described in the book that allows you to buy tickets independently is considered an outdated operation. Nowadays, most people buy tickets online and enter the station directly with their ID cards. Secondly, the dictation machine mentioned in the book is highly consistent with the voice input function of today’s mobile terminals. The plot of the novel interacts with reality, which is a very wonderful reading experience.

This book is divided into two parts. The first part is about the mule's search for the second base, and the second part is about the first base's search for the second base. Whether it is the mule or the first base, they actually want to destroy the second base. Mule wants to destroy the second base because the second base will block his hegemonic expansion. This is very easy to understand; while the first base wants to destroy the second base, this is a bit complicated.

In fact, most people in the First Base are very dependent on the existence of the Second Base. They regard the Second Base as a trump card to realize Seldon's plan. This dependence is so strong that they lose their ambition to enterprising and strive. But at the same time, another part of the people in the First Base are very resistant to the Second Base. They feel that the existence of the Second Base makes them behave like puppets on strings, without the self-respect of being a human being. At the end of the book, they seem to have achieved what they wanted. There are no longer people from the Second Base on Terminus. The First Base is still the core force to achieve the Seldon Plan. As everyone knows, this is what the Second Base wants to achieve. of.

The exploration of the location of the second base has already begun in the second part. In the ending of the third part, the true face of Lushan is finally revealed. Under the premise of knowing the results, in fact, whether it is interpreted from physics or sociology, or even from the "poetic" perspective mentioned by the first speaker, the location of the Second Base points to one place - the former empire. 's hub, Trantor. This is really both unexpected and reasonable. Let’s get in touch with Aibling in the second part and Bayer in the third part. Cheng Nis's reaction when he learned the location of the second base showed that everything had been foreshadowed.

Now, the First Base has consciously destroyed the Second Base, and this is exactly the purpose of the Second Base. They are once again hiding behind the scenes, controlling the overall situation as Seldon's ghost hand. The First Base already has its own psychologist and mental noise meter. Will the existing things really be forgotten by the torrent of time as the Second Base speculates? Will the first base and the second base finally have a battle? So far, there are still many unsolved mysteries waiting for readers to continue reading below.