看完了Inherit the Stars

已经忘记是如何选择这本书的，但是作为一个科幻迷，有人推荐过，推荐的信息刚好被我看到过，Goodreads评分也不差，就足够让我试一下了。

• 整本书的开场一直到50%的地方都是比较平淡，或者说boring的，提出了问题，在解决问题的过程中把所有的谜团逐渐摊开。我们在主时间线上是看不到激烈的冲突的，没有办公室政治，这个我还是感觉可以的。虽然一度boring到，我在考虑是不是要放弃这本书。记住我说的话，一本评分不错的科幻小说是不会因为boring而获得不错的评分的，一定有原因；也一定有反转。坚持看下去，就会有好收获，这是值得的。

• 这本书出版于1978年，那时候算是登月成功之后吧，我也还没有出生。但是里面提及到了video phone这些，我就觉得作者的想象力还是不错的，但是没有提及到手机cellphone，就是想象不够大胆。哈哈。故事的时间设定在了2029年，这时候人类已经可以进行远距离的星际间的大规模移动了，也能在月球上建立基地，设定商业旅行的模式。这就有点。。。要么说我的想象力不够，要么说作者的想象力在这边又有些夸张了。

• 在月球上发现了一具人类的遗体，5万年前的。可以想象到有多震惊。然后大家就继续挖掘各种可能性。当事实存在时，你的理论解释各种事实圆不起来时，就应该去寻找另一个理论。因为只要事实存在，就一定有一个能够造成这个事实的理论和逻辑。全球所有的资源都被调动来研究这个遗体，他的语言，他的文化。当我感觉是不是又坠入了好莱坞的套路时，科学家提出了理论，说这是很久以前生活在另一个星球的人。继续吹，吹到我在反转面前都震惊了。不多透露细节了，但是足够好看。

• 作者是一个很会讲故事的人。循序渐进。这是一部披着硬科幻外衣的推理侦探小说，星辰大海就是背景。

freckles.

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amply

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laceration

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In my estimation, an attitude like yours is too inflexible to permit an unbiased appraisal of the problem. You’ve already made up your mind what you want the answers to be.”

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procreation

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guess a bubble is as good an analogy as any. The interesting point is, if it did work that way, every particle of the ship and everything inside it would be subjected to exactly the same acceleration. Therefore there would be no G effect. You could stop the ship dead from, say, a million miles an hour to zero in a millisecond, and nobody inside would even know the difference.”

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It’s possible that the high rates of change of gravity potential that this produced were somehow harnessed to induce a controlled distortion in the space around the ship. In other words, it moved by continuously falling into a hole that it created in front of itself – kind of like a four-dimensional tank track.”

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“There is, in my submission, only one explanation which is capable of satisfying these apparently nonsensical requirements. And I put it to you now. The moon that orbited Minerva from time immemorial up until the time of these events fifty thousand years ago – and the Moon that shines in the sky above Earth today – are one and the same!”

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“Now perhaps you see the point of all this. I am stating that, on the evidence we have just examined, the human race did not evolve on Earth at all. It evolved on Minerva!”

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“I am stating that Charlie is not just a distantly related cousin of man – he is our direct ancestor!” Danchekker did

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Charlie’s group, were on Nearside when Minerva exploded and were spared the worst of the bombardment. Even a long time later, when the Moon finally stabilized in orbit around Earth, a handful of survivors remained who gazed up at the new world that hung in their sky. Presumably some of their ships were still usable – perhaps just one, or two, or a few. There was only one way out. Their world had ceased to exist, so they took the only path open to them and set off on a last, desperate attempt to reach the surface of Earth. There could be no way back – there was no place to go back to.

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“Good question.” Danchekker nodded approval. “We know from the fossil record on Earth that during the period that came after the visits of the Ganymeans several developments in the general human direction took place. We can trace this record quite clearly right up to the time in question, fifty thousand years ago. By that time the most advanced stage reached on Earth was that represented by Neanderthal man. Now, the Neanderthals have always been something of a riddle. They were hardy, tough, and superior in intelligence to anything prior to them or coexisting with them. They seemed well adapted to survive the competition of the Ice Age

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But that did not happen. Strangely, almost mysteriously, they died out abruptly between forty and fifty thousand years ago. Apparently they were unable to compete effectively against a new and far more advanced type of man, whose sudden appearance, as if from nowhere, has always been another of the unsolved riddles of science: Homo sapiens – us!”

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“As I have said, all this follows purely as a chain of reasoning from the observations with which I began. I can offer no evidence to support it. I am convinced, however, that such evidence does exist. Somewhere on Earth the remains of the Lunarian spacecraft that made that last journey from Luna must still exist, possibly buried beneath the mud of a seabed, possibly under the sands of one of the desert regions.

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“Suddenly lots of things that we have always simply taken for granted start falling into place.” Attention centralized on him once again. “Have you ever stopped to think what it is that makes man so different from all the other animals on Earth? I know that we have larger brains, more-versatile hands, and so forth; what I am referring to is something else. Most animals, when in a hopeless situation will resign themselves to fate and perish in ignominy. Man, on the other hand, does not know how to give in. He is capable of summoning up reserves of stubbornness and resilience that are without parallel on his planet. He is able to attack anything that threatens his survival, with an aggressiveness the like of which the Earth has never seen otherwise. It is this that has enabled him to sweep all before him, made him lord of all the beasts, helped him tame the winds, the rivers, the tides, and even the power of the Sun itself. This stubbornness has conquered the oceans, the skies, and the challenges of space, and at times has resulted in some of the most violent and bloodstained periods in his history. But without this side to his nature, man would be as helpless as the cattle in the field.”

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“But this is typical of the way in which evolution works. The forces of natural selection will always operate in such a way as to bend and shape a new mutation, and to preserve a variation of it that offers the best prospects of survival for the species as a whole. The raw mutation that made the Lunarians what they were was too extreme and resulted in their downfall. Improvement has taken the form of a dilution, which results in a greater psychological stability of the race. Thus, we survive where they perished.”