For the moment, mind-reading is still science fiction.

目前“读心”依旧存留在科幻小说当中。

As a kid, I thrilled to tales of adventure and Isaac Asimov's juvenile science fiction novel, lucky star and the oceans of Venus.

孩提时期的时候，我看少儿科幻小说《幸运星以及金星海洋》的时候感到非常激动。

It was science fiction coming to life.

科幻小说变成现实。

The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

人类科学的飞跃，及其可能带来的社会影响已经预期，后天究竟会发生什么还是留待科幻小说家和未来学家们去研究将要面对的可能。

But this hope is always in the realms of science fiction.

但是，这种希望总是只在科幻小说中存在。

And no, I'm not talking science fiction here.

不，我不是在讲科幻小说。

For one thing, this is a science fiction movie which tells us an exciting story about an English gentleman, Mr. Phileas Fogg, who makes a bet with his clubmates and managers that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

首先，这是部科幻电影，讲述英国绅士激动人心的故事。菲力-弗格先生跟他的俱乐部伙伴及经理打赌在八十天之内环游地球。

One of the English language's earliest works of science fiction Frankenstein is at once both a deceptively simple fable and a deeply laid work.

英语最早的科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》既是个看似简单的寓言故事，又是部深入浅的作品。

It's written by a Chinese science fiction writer.

这是中国科幻作家写的。

And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.

如果科学家们还没有在机械上实现科幻小说的幻想，那么他们也已经很接近这个目标。

That's the stuff of science fiction and horror movies.

这是科幻小说和恐怖电影里才会有的事情。

We're using heartland to light up this rock, which we actually called the iceberg, and it gives a really magical effect that looks really like a science fiction poster.

我们用心脏地带照亮这块石头，我们称之为冰山，它给人种很神奇的效果，看起来很像科幻小说的海报。

This feels like utter science fiction, and yet it's not.

这感觉就像科幻小说，但事实并非如此。

I haven't read science fiction much in the last decade, which is, you know, kind of crazy because I used to read it massively.

我过去十年来没读多少科幻小说，你知道，那有点怪，因为我以前读很多。

Regardless, the adaptation of a Chinese science fiction novel is a successful example of Chinese science fiction literature going global, and I hope more people can experience the value of harmony and inclusiveness reflected in Chinese literature.

无论如何，将中国科幻小说改编成影视作品是中国科幻文学走向世界的成功范例，我希望更多的人能够体验到中国文学所体现的和谐与包容的价值。

Like the best science fiction that you've ever read.

就像你读过的最精彩的科幻小说样。

But puberty left me this funhouse mirror dryad: teeth set at science fiction angles, crooked nose, face donkey-long and pox-marked where the hormones went finger-painting.

依照科幻小说角度排列的牙齿、歪鼻子、脸有如驴子般长、还布满荷尔蒙大玩指印画时留下的浓疱疤痕。

And yet, the Analemma Tower is unlikely to become some kind of ultimate paradise, like the Elysium space station habitat from the eponymous American science fiction film.

然而，8字曲线塔不太可能成为某种终极天堂，就像美国科幻电影《极乐空间》中的“极乐空间”样。

For example, the magic realism of South America, the literature of ancient China and Central Europe, the gothic novels, and certain works of science fiction.

例如，南美的魔幻现实主义，古代中国和中欧的文学，哥特式小说和某些科幻作品。

It was a science fiction movie where ants became giant here in Los Angeles.

它是部科幻电影, 在洛杉矶的蚂蚁全都变得大。