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

目前“读心”依旧存留在幻小说当中。

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.

幻小说变成了现实。

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.

类学的飞跃，及其可能带来的社会影响已经远远超出了预期，后天究竟会发生什么还是留待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，种希望总是只在幻小说中存在。

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

不，我不是在讲幻小说。

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.

英语最早的幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》既是一个看似简单的寓言故事，又是一部深入浅出的作品。

But the best sci-fi has a habit of presaging fact.

但最优秀的幻小说往往能预言未来。

As a student, he worked odd jobs to help his family get through the tail end of the Great Depression, including delivering sandwiches in Manhattan, a far cry from his dreams of writing sci-fi novels.

在学生时期，他就做些零工帮衬家里度过经济大萧条的尾声时期。他在曼哈顿送过三明治，与他写幻小说的梦想相去甚远。

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

是幻小说和恐怖电影里才会有的事情。

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

感觉就像幻小说，但事实并非如此。

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块石头，我们称之为冰山，它给一种很神奇的效果，看起来很像幻小说的海报。

Numerous science-fiction books and movies have raised people's fears about nanotechnology, with scenarios such as inserting little nano-robots into your body that monitor everything you do without you realising it, or self-replicating nano-robots that eventually take over the world.

很多幻小说和电影使们对纳米充满了恐惧，些小说和电影中经常会出现样的情节：有会在你的身体里植入小小的纳米机器来监视你的一举一动，而你却完全没有意识到件事；或者自我复制的纳米机器最后掌控了世界。

“Stranger in A Strange Land” by Robert Heinlein is my favorite science-fiction book.

罗伯特·海因莱因的《异乡异客》是我最喜欢的幻小说。

It can be argued that the parent-child relationship between Lady Jessica and Paul may be one of the most dynamic in science-fiction.

可以说，杰西卡夫和保罗之间的亲子关系可能是幻小说中最具活力的关系之一。

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

如果学家们还没有在机械上实现幻小说的幻想，那么他们也已经很接近个目标了。

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

就像你读过的最精彩的幻小说一样。

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

And then there is, you know, things that I think it would have been even harder, it would have been a little science fiction to do with even a traditional tutor.

还有，你知道，我认为会更难，即使是传统的导师也会有点像幻小说。

The smoke and ash are the main ingredients for creating this aura of something only seen in sci-fi acting very much like Mother Nature's own Instagram or Snapchat filter.

是种大气环境的形成主要是因为烟雾和灰烬，只有在幻小说中才会出现，就像大自然母亲自己发的Instagram或Snapchat。