……在任何两件历史文物之间，都存在着如此广袤的宇宙时空。绝对容得下无数个完全没有留存下来的文明。我脑海里立刻浮现出一本极切题的作品，刘慈欣的《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs）……一本风格极独特的书 / 篇幅短小读起来很有意思……
…There is so much cosmic space that exists between any two historical artifacts. There's definitely room for a multitude of completely unpreserved civilizations. On-the-nose reading that comes to mind, Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin... very anomalous book / quick entertaining read...
…crisis. His characters are basically walking textbooks meant for info dumping / FAQing the derivations. In that light, some similar stories I've found are... - Dragon's Egg (Robert Forward) - Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Liu Cixin, 3 body problem author) - The Andromeda Strain (Crichton, more medsci than math) - Schilds Ladder, Diaspora (other Egan stuff) The first two are especially similar to Egan's stuff…
> Tim BL 写的《编织万维网》（Weaving the Web） > 刘慈欣写的《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs） > O'Reilly 的 Unix 指南。读起来全都很轻松有趣。全都是软件工程师写的。对于在你的 React 应用中管理状态来说，全都没半点卵用。
> Weaving the Web by Tim BL > Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin > The Unix O'Reilly Guide All quick entertaining reads. All written by software engineers. All utterly useless for managing state in your React apps.
而且在刘慈欣的短篇小说《吞食者》（Devourer）中，他们甚至最后一次重返地球……当然，这背后是有背景渊源的，参见《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs）。
And in Cixin Liu’s short story "Devourer" they even come back to earth for a last visit... Of course, this has a back-story/history, see "Of Ants and Dinosaurs".
……在任何两件历史文物之间，都存在着如此广袤的宇宙时空。绝对容得下无数个完全没有留存下来的文明。我脑海里立刻浮现出一本极切题的作品，刘慈欣的《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs）……一本风格极独特的书 / 篇幅短小读起来很有意思……
…There is so much cosmic space that exists between any two historical artifacts. There's definitely room for a multitude of completely unpreserved civilizations. On-the-nose reading that comes to mind, Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin... very anomalous book / quick entertaining read...
刘慈欣的新书《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs）以一种非常生动有趣的方式探讨了这个话题：https://headofzeus.com/books/9781789546095
Cixin Liu's latest book "Of Ants and Dinosaurs" explores this topic in a very entertaining way: https://headofzeus.com/books/9781789546095
……危机。他笔下的角色基本上就是行走的教科书，专门用来大段灌输设定（info dumping）/ 答疑推导过程。从这个角度来看，我发现的一些类似故事有…… - 《龙蛋》（Dragon's Egg，Robert Forward 著） - 《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs，刘慈欣，《三体》作者） - 《仙女座菌株》（The Andromeda Strain，Crichton 著，偏医学科技而非数学） - 《狄拉克之海》（Schild's Ladder）、《大流散》（Diaspora）（Egan 的其他作品）前两本尤其像 Egan 的风格……
…crisis. His characters are basically walking textbooks meant for info dumping / FAQing the derivations. In that light, some similar stories I've found are... - Dragon's Egg (Robert Forward) - Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Liu Cixin, 3 body problem author) - The Andromeda Strain (Crichton, more medsci than math) - Schilds Ladder, Diaspora (other Egan stuff) The first two are especially similar to Egan's stuff…
> Tim BL 写的《编织万维网》（Weaving the Web） > 刘慈欣写的《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs） > O'Reilly 的 Unix 指南。读起来全都很轻松有趣。全都是软件工程师写的。对于在你的 React 应用中管理状态来说，全都没半点卵用。
> Weaving the Web by Tim BL > Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin > The Unix O'Reilly Guide All quick entertaining reads. All written by software engineers. All utterly useless for managing state in your React apps.
而且在刘慈欣的短篇小说《吞食者》（Devourer）中，他们甚至最后一次重返地球……当然，这背后是有背景渊源的，参见《白垩纪往事》（Of Ants and Dinosaurs）。
And in Cixin Liu’s short story "Devourer" they even come back to earth for a last visit... Of course, this has a back-story/history, see "Of Ants and Dinosaurs".