刘慈欣的《三体》大热之后,国内读者的科幻热情一下子被激发了起来。其实百年前,晚清的读者们就有了第一次与西方科幻接触的机会。在那个时候,科幻既不是用于消遣的饭后读物,也不是哲学或社会学的研究文本,而是被视为救国救民的良方之一。观西人小说,大有助于学问也1903年,美国的工人阶级已 After Liu Cixin’s “Three-body” fever, domestic readers’ science fiction enthusiasm was suddenly stimulated. In fact, a hundred years ago, readers in the late Qing Dynasty had the opportunity to make contact with Western science fiction for the first time. At that time, science fiction was neither a meal after reading, nor as a research text in philosophy or sociology, but as a recipe for saving the nation and saving the nation. Watching Western novels, greatly contribute to the learning Also in 1903, the working class in the United States already