"Is SCP Foundation science fiction?"

When Ye Lingxing saw the question from You Wei, he didn't realize anything.

He thought about it according to common sense, and replied, "It should be, can it be a fantasy?"

Wei Yu: "Are you sure?"

Ye Lingxing was keenly aware of the unusualness behind this sentence - it was also possible that You Wei did not attach his habitual emoji at the end of the sentence, which made Ye Lingxing feel discordant - in short, something was not quite right.

Night Spirit: "What's going on?"

You Wei didn't speak, he directly shared a link.

- "The Deepest Fear and Infernal Humanity: Could This Be the Next Way for Science Fiction?"

An article published on Bilibili.

When Ye Lingxing clicked in, he paid attention to the data: click on 163552, the number of likes is 1754, and the comments are 429.

Published, five hours ago.

The header image is shown at the top...... It's the Foundation, the SCP Foundation's iconic three-arrow badge.

He took a deep breath and began to read.

"Old viewers who have watched my videos know that I am not an UP master who is good at words, and it often takes a long time to revise an article before it can be read. But this time, I can't wait to revise the copy and make it into a video.

Right here, at this very moment, I want to talk to you about science fiction, those that once shone in the history of human civilization, but are gradually declining...... Science fiction. ”

It all started in 1818 when a female writer named Mary Shelley wrote a book during the most difficult years of her life.

It was Frankenstein, the first true science fiction book in the history of world literature.

"It's only been 200 years since the concept of 'science fiction' was born. But these two million are enough for us to glimpse the past and present of human beings and civilizations in our imaginations, and construct possible and impossible futures. ”

And much earlier, before the word "science fiction" even existed, people were already exposed to something called "imagining the future".

Leonardo da Vinci, a famous all-rounder in human history.

Living in the 15th century, he was passionate about creating, and those incredible design drawings are not uncommon to us today, but in the Renaissance they were no different from science fiction.

"Science fiction is romantic literature, and it has been since the beginning. The creators put human beings into a reality that is close to science, and it is possible to deduce the changes of human nature and society in the social situations that appear in reality. ”

It is the closest thing to philosophy.

Science fiction writers imagine the future of mankind, the possibility of civilization, and the ultimate ...... of the universe

Then write down all these thoughts.

After the Industrial Revolution, Britain held its first exposition in world history in 1851.

That is the "World Exposition".

Since then, science fiction has leapt along with science and technology to the limits of imagination.

It is said that "science fiction comes out of the prosperous age".

The most glorious time of science fiction literature was the period of the Three Kingdoms, when human science and humanistic philosophy were making explosive progress at the same time.

- Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

"This is what we know as the Victorian era of the 19th century, but I prefer to call it the 'Golden Age of Science Fiction.'" ”

Nations are united, camps are opposed, and peace hangs on the border of interests and progress.

Under the threat of competition for survival, literary creators are increasingly imagining and reflecting on reality.

They reflect on war, on the existence of the self, on the meaning that science has, but overall remain optimistic.

It is a kind of optimism that modern people cannot imagine, absolute confidence in the future of mankind, and infinite pursuit of the ultimate in science.

"Carl Rowland passed away the other day, and I don't know what other people think, but for me, it's like the sky is falling. That represents a golden age that is one step away from us, even unreachable. ”

Carl Rolland was one of the few surviving "scientific optimists" in the world.

As many people know him, this scientist, who has devoted his life to disseminating scientific knowledge to the masses, has almost blindly believed that science will guide the future.

And this kind of blind optimism was the norm for almost everyone in the Golden Age.

Classical physics is almost exhausted, the framework of modern science has been established, and they believe that the ultimate truth is at hand.

It just takes one step further......

"The universe seems to be within reach. ”

However, all this is nothing more than a distant and unrealistic fantasy after all.

The emergence of quantum mechanics has broken the monopoly of classical mechanics and the belief in "science" in the minds of countless people.

The resulting science fiction system collapsed overnight, and science fiction writers began to look for another way out.

The pursuit of the sea of stars falls from the sky, and people have to think about more realistic issues.

The involution and narrowing of science fantasy.

As a result, the theory of scientific threat was born, and the end times that may be caused by the abuse of science once became the mainstream of the market.

As if the extremes of things must be reversed, this genre quickly slipped towards the dark abyss-

"Since the sixties and seventies of the last century, 'the evil of human nature' has become the core of the expression of fantasy cultural works. The pessimistic works that have poured out one after another have deeply influenced and influenced all modern creative systems. ”

To this day, science fiction literature is still mired in the shadow of modern science.

The more we look at the cutting edge of technology, the more we understand what a bleak future humanity will face.

"Our universe is as dark as it has been for tens of billions of years. ”

In the twilight of the age of miracles and utopia, sing the finale for the sunset of truth.

The fire that illuminates the starry sky has long been extinguished, and after that it is a long night.

The visual language of science fiction is still advancing, and the hype of cyberpunk is accompanied by the explosion of network development, and the trend of steampunk is rising together with the network science and magic system.

However, the progress of the science fiction core has been dead for a long time.

"I know you're still nostalgic for the glory of the Golden Age, and so am I, but we can't go back. ”

Each era has its own unique literary ideas.

The past is history, and the present ......

Not yet born.

"Since the beginning of the new millennium, there has not been a single work in the world of science fiction that has had a cross-generational impact, and even if the search was broadened to all cultural fields, it was fruitless. ”

"It was once recognized that the one with the greatest potential to ascend to the throne was The Ring Effect...... Forget it, let's not talk about this. ”

"I thought it would be a long time to wait for a genius like Lem to emerge, or for the next heyday to come, and it would be a long time......

"And then, today, by chance, I found a work hidden in the fog of the Internet - "SCP Foundation". ”

"It is possible that only in this day and age can be born in the Internet hypertext literature. It's not the usual sense of the word, but behind the unique genre is a huge world that I still haven't seen the whole picture. ”

"It's still a short time to read, but I can't help but feel like I can't wait to share it. Some of the simplest things you might want to know about the SCP Foundation ......"

Ye Lingxing quickly finished this long article of several thousand words, and watched it talk about the innovative significance of the Foundation in contemporary science fiction from the history of world science fiction literature.

His mood was a little mixed.

There's a lot I want to say, but it doesn't feel right now.

After thinking for two seconds, Ye Lingxing switched back to the chat interface with You Wei, he believed that the person on the other side should still be waiting for his reply.

Night Spirit: "Where did it start?"