Either there is a lack of concepts or original concepts, many of which are popular science fiction, rather than proposing new world concepts.
“Prometheus” stills
Crazy Thinking
Building a world view requires borderless and crazy imagination.
Sometimes, a strange idea is better than a thousand vulgarisms, breaking the convention without sticking to one pattern, and creating different effects. An interesting worldview can make readers and viewers feel excited and want to shout “Ah” out loud.
Asimov’s works are typical of fantasies, such as “Me, Robot” and “Base”. He also has a novel called “Sunset”. It’s common for the sun to rise from the east to the west in our world, but in Asimov’s writings, six suns can be seen on a planet called Kargash, and there will always be a sun in the sky. The cycle will arrive after thousands of years. There will be a dark night.
The world that has never had a dark night suddenly becomes a sky full of stars, the entire world civilization goes crazy, and the end is coming. This is fantasizing.
Wang Jinkang’s novel “Reincarnation Giant” is also such a madness, and Baoshu’s “Ancient Song of the Earth” is also crazy.
The builders of the science fiction world walk on the edge of the cliff of imagination. Another name for science fiction is freedom and subversion. A good world has a sense of freedom and subversion, and even makes people feel dangerous and fearful. This is the world structure of fantasies. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
This is also the reason for the endless emergence of human inventions in modern times. It may also be a certain difference between China’s technology industry and Silicon Valley in the United States.
The cover of “Ancient Song of the Earth”