What are the good science fiction books that teenagers must-read?

The famous American literary critic Ihab Hassan once said: "Science fiction may be philosophically naive, morally simple, aesthetically somewhat subjective, or rough, but it’s the best. 

On the one hand, it seems to have touched the nerve center of the collective dream of mankind, liberating certain illusions hidden in our human machine."

The biggest feature of science fiction is that it gives "fantasy" the great possibility of being realized in the future by relying on technology, and even some "science fiction" has indeed become a reality in science many years later. 

Therefore, science fiction has an unprecedented "predictiveness". The categories involved in science fiction are always closely linked to human curiosity and thirst for knowledge and are excellent readings for teenagers.

Here is a selection of science fiction introductory books recommended by American parents and suitable for teenagers.

One of the world's three major science fiction novels, it easily won the "Nebula Award" and "Hugo Award" after it was first published in 1985. The following year, the sequel of "Ender's Game" "The Representative of the Image of the Dead" won the triple crown again. 

And ranked first on the New York Times bestseller list. Based on the background of science fiction, from the perspective of young people's spiritual growth, he tells the story of the protagonist's growth. 

The novel has a very strong sense of the picture, and the unexpected arrangement of the plot allows you to step into Ander's heart step by step to reflect on the meaning of life. It can be said that this set of books has reached an unprecedented height in terms of science fiction, thinking, or readability. There has never been a precedent in the history of science fiction literature.

You can find this book on the shelves of almost every bookstore in the world. "Ender's Game" has now become a kind of culture, and all readers who love science fiction in the world will talk about it. 

This book explores the end of the world, explores the destiny of mankind, explores the possibilities of other civilizations in the universe, but more importantly, tells how a teenager grows up under extreme difficulties. To this day, it is still a must-read novel for American teenagers. You can think of it as the "Evangelion" of the United States.

While reading this book, I also read another seemingly unrelated book "Financial Empire". But in fact, the connection between the two books goes far beyond what I can share:

There are too many metaphors behind "The Hunger Games". In the international economic and financial system actually operated and controlled by the United States, as an actual "empire", The United States establishes all the rules that are beneficial to itself, forcing all countries to pay for their country's cheap and high-quality resources and products, and they will never allow any developing countries to really develop. 

because if the people of these countries have stronger consumption Abilities, the United States can no longer profit from unequal trade. All the foreign policies of the United States are exactly the same as the Capital in "The Hunger Games", only the form is different, and the essence is completely the same, each country is each country. It's just an area that provides resources or products for it.

The author's age may have been greatly affected by the Cold War, so the 13th district should be a projection of the former Soviet Union. In fact, present Russia is no longer the situation of the 13th district. 

The young people in the United States inciting Russia are like the 13th district inciting others. It is the same as the region, except that it is difficult for the Russian people to understand how the so-called liberal democracy they have learned from the outside world will affect their country.

Of course, it can't be said that "The Hunger Games" is purely a product of the Cold War, but the final fate of the hero and heroine is just an escape from the helpless reality, although such a realistic love story is valuable for literary works.

　　Newbury Gold Medal Prize for Children's Literature, the first book in the "Time Quintet" series, author Madeleine Inge won the International Andersen Prize. This book is known to almost everyone in the United States. 

This is about the young Meg Murray and her brother Charles Wallace on a journey to the universe to find missing research time travel The story of his father.

　　Little girl McGonagall has a special family. Her dearest father disappeared while studying the five-dimensional space. Three people living in a haunted house: Mrs. Worcester, Mrs. Pot, and Mrs. Weiqu. They know the whereabouts of Dad. 

So, in the middle of the night, McGonagall, his younger brother, and his classmate Calvin, who was a few years older than them, and these three mysterious and friendly alien angels began a magical, dangerous, and tortuous way to find family together. 

The way they travel is not through airplanes, rockets, or time shuttles, but through the magical folds of time, called latitude jumps. They enter from a plane and come out to stand on another distant planet.

　　This book is full of love, tolerance, understanding, family, and friendship. The stories of three strange children are written to children and everyone.

"The Giver" is one of the masterpieces of American writer Lois Lowry, a two-time Newbery Gold Award winner and a candidate for the International Andersen Award. This book was created in 1993. 

After its publication, it quickly attracted the attention of American book reviewers and education circles, and it became on the top ten bestseller list of the "New York Times".

Later in 2000, 2003, and 2012, Laurie continued the background and characters of "The Giver", and successively created three novels of "Historical Embroiderer", "Forest Messenger" and "Son", forming four "The Giver". songs. 

In August 2014, the film of the same name adapted from the book "The Giver" was released, which once again sparked the reading craze of "The Giver" worldwide.

"The Giver" is a profoundly thoughtful science fiction novel that tells the process of the growth and awakening of young Jonas, while also reflecting on the utopian system and the form of social organization. 

In the 1990s when this book was published, similar themes were still rare in youth novels. To some extent, Lois Laurie can be called the "originator of youth dystopian novels."

This is not a fairy tale, but something that happens to each of us every day. The world is highly uncertain, and its changes are beyond the ability of the human brain to handle. 

More importantly, human beings are responsive to this uncertainty. Instinct resistance and fear, therefore, simplification and expectation have become an important means for human beings to gain a sense of security, and we have reshaped the world, into a more secure world. 

But we lose our real experience of the world. As we grow, we gain more and more knowledge and more and more ignore real experience. But when we find that we are more and more able to deal with the problem, we are already on the verge of death.

Only by giving up the pursuit of certainty, facing uncertainty, and cherishing the precious real experience is real life. Only then can we come to the real human world like the protagonist, and that is the only way to have real joys, sorrows, and sorrows.

Since its publication in 1993, "The Giver" has been translated into 28 languages, and its cumulative global sales have exceeded 10 million copies. 

Science fiction master Ray Bradbury's dystopian masterpiece hardcover commemorative edition

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"The Martian Chronicles" is a famous work by contemporary science fiction master Ray Bradbury. It consists of a series of beautiful brushwork, fantastic imagination, and gothic fantasy Short story composition. At the turn of the century, the earth was perilous and full of an apocalyptic atmosphere. 

Mars has become the last hope of mankind. Although the first three groups of explorers died at the hands of mysterious Martians, humans still succeeded. In the unfamiliar red land, they met the "derailed" Martian woman and the jealous husband, the Martian who is proficient in telepathy and disguise, and the murderous castle of Usher in the grand carnival. Two strangers are twisting Spiritual encounters in time and space... 

The poetic and eerie Chronicles of Mars is actually a prosperous and declining history of human civilization, reflecting the fears and desires in the depths of human nature, which makes people uncomfortable to read. The romanticism of science fiction has been perfectly embodied in it. In 2012, NASA named the landing site of "Curiosity" on Mars "Bradbury Landing Site" to pay tribute to the master of science fiction.