No.12, 1996-Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Wu Dingbai
JulesVerne (Jules Verne, 1828-195) was 38 years older than Wells. Although both of them laid the foundation for the development of modern science fiction, they have a lot of complaints about each other. Perhaps scholars despise each other, or perhaps out of misunderstanding. Verne's stories are vivid and humorous, witty, and can inspire people, especially teenagers, to love science and yearn for adventure, so they have been welcomed by readers all over the world for more than 1 years. According to the data of UNESCO, Verne is one of the top ten famous translators in the world.
Verne was born in Nantes, a seaport in western France. He lived and studied in Fayed Island on the Lauard River, which is a part of the city, until he graduated from middle school. My father is a successful lawyer, and he is bent on his son's inheritance. But Verne loved the ocean since he was a child and longed for voyage and adventure. At the age of 11, he volunteered to go aboard as an apprentice and sail to India, only to be found by his family and taken home. At the age of 18, he went to Paris to study law at his father's behest, but he had no interest in law, but fell in love with literature and drama. After graduation, he devoted himself to the creation of poetry and drama. For this reason, he was not only severely reprimanded by his father, but also lost his financial support. He had to struggle in poverty and enjoy reading. He admired Hugo, Balzac, Dumas and Shakespeare in England. In Paris, he wrote 2 unpublished editions and some romantic and passionate poems.
Later, he discovered American Allen Poe's novel, and it was a treasure. In 1851, his first sci-fi story, Sailing in a Balloon, and some subsequent works clearly showed the influence of Allen Poe on him. In 1862, he met Hecl, a writer and publisher of children's literature. With his support, Verne's sci-fi creation quickly entered a prosperous period. Five weeks in a balloon (1863) marked the turning point of Verne's fame and family. This novel shows a brand-new novel style to the world. With the rich imagination of the author, it combines new scientific and technological inventions and their magical uses that people have never heard of in legendary adventure novels. Since then, he has successively published nearly 6 novels, such as Traveling Underground (1863), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), the trilogy Captain Grant's Children (1867-1868), Two Wan Li under the Sea (187) and Around the Earth in 8 Days (1873). His success comes from diligence. He reads widely, dabbles in various fields of knowledge, humbly asks experts and scholars for advice, and makes field trips as much as possible.
At that time, many ideas in Verne's novels were regarded as wishful thinking, such as airplanes, tanks, rockets, submarines, long-range artillery, telephones, movies, television, faxes, skyscrapers, landing on the moon and so on. But after decades, it became a reality one by one, and many of them were invented and put into practice by scientists inspired by Verne's story. Simon Lake, the father of modern submarines, once mentioned "Two Wan Li under the Sea" in his autobiography, and called Verne the general guide of his life. Of course, limited by the times and knowledge, Verne's novels also have many unscientific ideas, but this does not affect his great achievements.
Two Wan Li under the Sea, published in 187, is a classic of world science fiction. Through the first-person narration of Professor pierre aronnax, the novel unfolds the thrilling plot of his submarine voyage to Wan Li. People often pay attention to one thing when evaluating this novel: it predicts the development of submarines. In fact, Verne didn't have this intention at that time. In order to increase the novelty and attraction of his adventure story, he just imagined a ship that could run permanently at high speed under the sea. However, we can say that the more important significance of this novel lies in that the author has inspired readers' enthusiasm for science, pursuit of life and understanding of society.
synopsis of two Wan Li under the sea
In p>1866, some ships found a shiny monster in different parts of the sea. It was hundreds of meters long and occasionally surfaced. After many ships were attacked by this monster and sank, the American government sent the frigate "Lincoln" to track and hunt. French biologist Pierre Aronnax, a professor at the Paris Museum of Natural History, was invited to attend. He once wrote about this marine monster and thought it was a huge narwhal.
The "Lincoln" cruised in the sea for three weeks, but found nothing. One night, the professor was enjoying the night scene on the deck, when he suddenly found that the dark water suddenly flashed red light, and then a monster appeared. The professor ran back to the cabin and reported to the captain, and the frigate immediately headed for the monster. When approaching, Ned Lambert, a Canadian whaler, threw a sharp whale fork, only to hear a "dang", as if hitting the steel plate, which had no effect. The frigate fired, but the bombs were all ejected by the monster's tail, splashing a spray. The monster seemed to be enraged, spouting two jets of water from his head and hurling at the starboard side of the frigate. With a loud bang, the professor, his servant Conseil and the whale harpooner were thrown into the water. The professor soon lost consciousness.
When the professor woke up, he found himself lying in an iron room, sitting beside Conseil and Ned Land. He was puzzled. Two strangers came in to greet them, but the professor tried several languages and they couldn't understand them. When they were in trouble, their master appeared. He was tall and bright-eyed, and introduced himself in French. His name is Nemo, and he claims to have renounced all mankind. He said that although they had become his prisoners, they still enjoyed freedom. Just to keep it a secret, he won't release them, and he asks them to do whatever they want.
Although the professor felt sad about losing his freedom, he was still attracted by the mysterious submarine and the mystery of the seabed. At the invitation of Nemo, the three of them visited the Nautilus designed and built by him. Although its components are pieced together, the hull is solid and reasonable in structure, and can withstand the impact and high pressure of seawater. There is a beautiful living room, comfortable sleeping cabin, book reading room and casino in the boat. The submarine's electricity and oxygen are extracted from seawater and can stay on the seabed for a long time. Food is also taken from the ocean, and some delicious fish have never been tasted by the professor. Cloth is woven from marine fibers and tobacco leaves come from seaweed. Nemo also showed them guns for hunting marine animals and equipment for walking on the seabed.
Nautilus is sneaking in the Pacific Ocean. Through the glass window, the professor watched the grotesque underwater scenes and colorful deep-sea creatures all the way. When passing through Crispo Island, Nemo sent someone to send a note inviting the three of them to hunt in the undersea forest. So they put on diving suits, carried oxygen bottles on their backs, and carried special shotguns. They passed through the ballast tanks and walked on the seabed plain. Nemo shot a big sea otter with his gun, then killed two dolphins, and returned with a full load.
When the submarine arrived near Kalimantan, there was a shortage of food. Professor, the three of them decided to go ashore to look for vegetables and game. At first, they were lucky. They killed several wild boars and picked many fruits. Just as they were setting up a bonfire on the beach to prepare a barbecue, they were suddenly attacked by the aborigines. They hurriedly fled into the boat and sailed to the submarine anchored in the sea. However, the indigenous people boarded the raft and were eager to give up. Even if they were taught to climb on the submarine and get off the bottom, the aborigines still surrounded the submarine and refused to disperse. Early the next morning, when the submarine opened for air, the aborigines did climb aboard. But as soon as their hands touched the railing, they shrank back in alarm. It turned out that all the metal railings were electrified.
The submarine sailed into the Indian Ocean. Near Sri Lanka, Nemo invited the professors to visit the pearl mining field on the seabed. Pearls abound here, with a maximum value of $2 million. The professor watched with interest the Indians collecting pearls on the seabed. Suddenly, a giant shark attacked the Indians with its jaws open. Nimo immediately took the short knife in his hand and stepped forward to fight with the shark. Ned Lan raised his fork to help, which hit the shark right in the heart. Nimo immediately lifted the pearl picker out of the water and took some pearls from his pocket to give him. From the bottom of my heart, the professor admires Nemo's spirit of self-sacrifice and saving others, and thus knows that Nemo has not actually cut off his contacts with human beings.
It took Nautilus less than 2 minutes to enter the Mediterranean Sea from the Red Sea. It sneaked through the submarine passage discovered by Nemo, before the Suez Canal.
along the way, the professor found many amazing things. When the ship arrived in Kangdi Island, Nemo took out a lot of gold from the cupboard and sent someone to take it out by boat. Later, when the submarine sailed into the Atlantic Ocean and anchored at the bottom of Victoria Bay, Nemo sent his crew to dive and bring up boxes full of gold and silver from the sunken ship at the bottom of the sea. It turns out that Nemo used the treasure from the sunken ship to help the poor and engage in scientific exploration. At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Nemo accompanied the professor to visit the long-lost continent-Daxizhou. They watched the spectacular scene of sulfur fire slurry spewing from submarine volcanic vents, and also visited the ruined city of Pompeii.
The submarine is heading for the South Pole again, and it passes among the whales in droves. When the pointed whale attacked the fin whale, Nemo directed the crew to attack the pointed whale out of sympathy for the weak. In the voyage since then, they have gone through many difficulties and dangers. For a while, icebergs blocked the road, for a while, octopus besieged it, and for a while, enemy ships attacked it. With amazing perseverance and wisdom, Nemo commanded the crew and defeated everything.
After sailing around the world with two Wan Li under the sea, the submarine encountered a terrible whirlpool on the west coast of Norway. The professor can't know what happened to the submarine after it was involved in the whirlpool, because he and his companions were thrown into the water by the whirlpool and narrowly escaped on a small island in Norway, and the submarine has disappeared.
This work tells the story of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French naturalist, traveling in the depths of the ocean. The story happened in 1866. At that time, a big monster that was judged as a narwhal was found at sea. He accepted the invitation to join the chase, and unfortunately fell into the water during the chase, swimming on the monster's back. In fact, this monster is not a narwhal, but a submarine with wonderful structure. From then on, the submarine took him around the two Wan Li under the sea ...
The submarine was secretly built by Captain Nemo on a desert island in the middle of the ocean. It has a solid hull and uses the ocean to generate electricity. Captain Nemo invited Pierre Aronnax to travel under the sea. The hero is always puzzled by a mystery, and he is always thinking about it, trying to solve it: who is Captain Nemo? Why does this talented engineer and knowledgeable scholar hate human society so much? What is the purpose of his roaming the bottom of the sea? When is the end of the journey? Arona Cox, Gong Saiyi and Ned Land's repeated attempts to escape seem to be inadvertently frustrated. Can they return to the earth and be free? How did this undersea journey end? As soon as the old mystery was solved, new puzzles came before them. They set out from the Pacific Ocean, passed through coral islands, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, entered the Atlantic Ocean, saw many rare marine animals and plants and strange sights in the water, and experienced many dangers such as stranding, siege by indigenous people, fighting with sharks, iceberg road closure, octopus attack and so on. Finally, when the submarine arrived at the Norwegian coast, Pierre Aronnax left without saying goodbye and announced the secret of the seabed he knew to the world.