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Chapter 56 Foreign Forums

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Jesse, Mike and Belinda are loyal science fiction fans. They have read quite a lot of English novels, but after they came to study in China, they found it was very difficult to read a Chinese novel.

Even though they can pass the language test, these dense cubes are still a headache, just like a heavenly book. They can't understand the popular "I, Robot" recently, so they can only find friends to help translate verbally.

However, Lucy, a Chinese girl, actually has not outstanding English translation skills, so she lost a lot of things during the translation process, but the part that successfully reposted it has already amazed them.

Now that Lin Han told them that they could buy the English version, they all started reading with their mobile phones. After waiting for so long, they finally got spiritual food.

They were originally going to study and discuss, but they tried to endure the discomfort on their eyes and read it on their mobile phone to satisfy their cravings. How could they have time to chat with others?

The popularity of Kindle is still relatively high. Some books are too expensive to buy paper versions and can consider electronic versions, so Jesse and others are waiting to go back and download them to the Kindle again to read, so that they will not hurt their eyes.

After seeing them reading hungryly, no one disturbed them. Lin Han, Zheng Yuqian, Xiaoliu and others knew this feeling. It was a long drought that lasted for a long time!

"Let's just ignore them for now and tell us about our feelings. I think we use nine stories to integrate a brief history of robot development. The core of each story comes from the logical conflict between the three major laws of robots. In the novel, female scientists forced a robot to death with paradoxes. Now we are studying machine ethics, which is also developing from this prisoner's dilemma, right?"

Another boy with glasses agreed, "Many people on the Internet are looking for the three major loopholes in robot development, but they don't know that the author is the one who really found the loopholes. They propose a rule and then find the loopholes to write this novel. It's like watching lowly creatures making trouble and don't want to disturb them."

"Hahaha, this statement is interesting, and I think so too. Anyway, this science fiction book looks relaxed and magical, almost a master-level work, and can be regarded as a classic. Have you noticed that although it is about robots, this universe is very, very large and has a long history of the Galaxy Empire. The friendship between Bailey and Daniel, the relationship between humans and robots, has the urge to watch it again after seeing it from beginning to end."

"This style that sets a good axiom system and then translates it into the system is absolutely natural science fiction, so hard that it can't be harder. Especially the two outdoor partners are so funny. Robot psychology is the main line of the whole book. I have been constantly thinking about how robots should survive under the three major laws."

"This is how a truly outstanding science fiction work should be, convincing, scary and touching!"

"It's a big deal to write so many tricks on the three major laws of robots. The end of each question is just the beginning of another question. These nine short stories are actually closely related to logical connections, which makes me excited."

"What a coincidence, I am so so excited. Domestic science fiction can also write this level. I finished reading this book without sleeping all night."

"This is not a simple collection of short stories. As the memories of robot psychologists unfold, stories progress through layer by layer, analyzing the various logical relationships within the three laws and the possibilities derived from them deeply and thoroughly."

Zheng Yuxiao also began to join the discussion at this time: "Which robot is there, which one do you like the most? There are robots who will never get tired of listening to Cinderella's stories a thousand times, robots who are obsessed with human emotions and like to read novels, robots who speak rationally and value reasoning and feel good about themselves, robots who can think and establish sects preaching, and each one is so cute."

Lin Han kept listening carefully at this time. He found that this group of science fiction enthusiasts was almost praised and had no malice. At most, he just complained about his writing style, which was harmless.

It was Lin Han's turn to speak. No matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn't praise himself. So after he hesitating, he said: "The language style is very simple and plain, without gorgeous descriptions or exaggerated shaping. The story is simple but exciting enough. The writing style needs to be practiced."

The reading club is getting better with the chattering discussions. Everyone is competing to express their ideas. There is always endless things to say when people like-minded people are together.

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After the reading party, Jesse Kurten couldn't wait to return to his dormitory. He quickly opened the Kindle and then synchronized the "I, Robot" he had purchased before.

Reading books with a mobile phone that is as big as a palm, his eyes feel a little uncomfortable, and it is more suitable for a larger Kindle. He has finished reading the second short story in his hand and is still shocked.

As a student from Columbia University in the United States, Jesse grew up with science fiction books since childhood and has read all kinds of science fiction classics. But more than a week ago, he heard some friends he met in China discussing a science fiction book.

Originally, he looked down on Chinese science fiction works, and there was no science fiction book here that could make him remember his name. It seems that science fiction novels are developing particularly slowly here, and people here like to read kongfu novels even more.

But by chance, when he heard Lucy telling him the three major laws of robots in English, Jesse, who had rich reading experience, was immediately conquered and begged the friend to translate it for himself.

Even though he couldn't understand the language, the genius thought still left a deep mark in his mind. Now that he saw the real English version, Jesse felt that his soul was about to shake.

"The author is definitely a genius, God, I almost missed this novel! Looking at this writing style, I thought I was reading science fiction novels written by European and American writers, and there was no sign of translation, but it is impossible for me to have heard of the three laws of robots, which are so classic."

Jesse said to himself, thinking of the novel that showed 3 purchases on the Amazon page, and he felt like he was buried, "It should be seen by more people!"

After having this idea, Jesse opened his most commonly used forum SFFworld, which is the largest gathering place for science fiction readers in Europe and the United States. The number of active people every day is as high as tens of thousands of sections and reasonable structure. Many novels are passed down from here and then become popular.

SFFworld is the abbreviation of science-fiction-forum-world. This forum is full of science fiction enthusiasts. They have different identities, including students like Jesse, engineers, professors, astronomers, chemistry teachers, physicists, aerospace workers, etc.

These people are standard old bookworms, and they have strict requirements on any science fiction book, and it is very difficult to conquer their tastes.

But Jesse typed quickly on the keyboard with both hands, "Hi, guys, I found a very good science fiction novel, "I, Robot". You can see the first chapter on Amazon for trial reading. You only need to look at the three rules of robots in the front to know whether you should buy it!"
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