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.

人类科学的飞跃，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，种希望在科幻小说中存在。

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

不，我不在讲科幻小说。

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.

英语最早的科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》既一个看似简单的寓言故事，又一部深入浅出的作品。

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

但最优秀的科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。他在曼哈顿送过明治，与他写科幻小说的梦想相去甚远。

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

科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.

感觉就像科幻小说，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，它给人一种很神奇的效果，看起来很像科幻小说的海报。

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.

很多科幻小说和电影使人们对纳米科技充满了恐惧，些小说和电影中经常会出现样的情节：有人会在你的身体里植入小小的纳米机器人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人最后掌控了世界。

“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》我最喜欢的科幻小说。

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，杰西卡夫人和保罗之间的亲子关系可能科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个目标了。

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

就像你读过的最精彩的科幻小说一样。

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，将中国科幻小说改编成影视作品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。

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，即使传统的导师也会有点像科幻小说。

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.

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