The Goddess Shines on America

"Oh, you're Alice, right? I'm very impressed with you tonight."

The old man smiled and said to Alice: "When Lawrence gave a speech, you stood in the lower left corner of Lawrence. This dress is really beautiful."

Alice slandered in her heart, maybe this old man is the same as that Speck, and he is a damn loli control or something, otherwise why don't you just look at Mr. Lawrence and just stare at yourself?

But she was slandered in her heart, and she still had to smile obediently: "Sissy picked this specially for me, and I haven't worn it before tonight. In fact, this is the first time I have worn such a beautiful dress, and I will need it later." Thank her again, after all, if it were me, I would definitely not buy it."

Anyway, no one knew that her family had made a lot of money by speculating in stocks, so Alice didn't think there was any omission in this sentence. After all, this dress was indeed bought by Sissy, and it was a new children's wear specially launched by Chanel this year. Not to mention the price, it was a limited edition.

On the surface, she is an ordinary girl, and it is normal that she does not know how to buy.

Fortunately, the old man didn't seem to recognize that this is Chanel's new spring children's clothing. He doesn't seem to be a senior loli fan, but he still said with a smile on his face: "You and this guy's daughter, that Sissy is a classmate, right? I usually like to make some What? Do you like reading?"

Before Alice could speak, Mr. Lawrence smiled and said, "Please, Isaac, why can't you get rid of your old problems for so many years? Whenever you see a child, you like to ask him if he likes to read. You tell them all Be yourself?"

After finishing speaking, he smiled at Alice: "Alice, let me introduce you, this is the famous science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, have you heard of his name?"

Alice blinked.

Asimov?

very familiar name.

What are you doing?

science fiction writer.

What science fiction writer?

have no idea.

The Terminator and Alien?

No, they are movies.

"Hmm...a very familiar name..."

After thinking about it for a long time, she still couldn't think of the reason, so Alice had to tell the truth: "But it's only familiar, sorry, that...Mr. Asimov, please forgive me for being too young, your famous work is... ?”

I guess he also felt that Alice might not be able to recognize him if he only mentioned one work. After thinking about it, Asimov said with a smile, "Have you heard of the three laws of robotics?"

Alice blinked again.

"Three Laws?"

"Ah! The Three Laws!"

It's the thing at the beginning of the "I, Robot" movie!

"Ah, so you wrote that thing!?"

Ah, yes, Asimov, the writer of science fiction, and the three laws of robotics, put together three unknown but familiar names, identities, and nouns, and it really makes sense!

"Uh... May I ask which novel it was written in?"

Of course, the two men present couldn't figure out what Alice's psychological activities were, but they couldn't help laughing when they saw her express four sentences in a row.

"No, Isaac, you are such a failure. You said you couldn't recognize the name, you didn't know what the work was, only this law was remembered by other little girls! Haha~ No, no, I laughed so hard , you are such a failure!"

"That...Alice?"

Asimov was even more dumbfounded: "You have heard of my law...but I don't know which book it is from?"

Ma'am, of course I know.

Alice rolled her eyes inwardly.

Did the movie "I, Robot" talk about this at the beginning? Three lines of subtitles are displayed in turn, and then there is a plot of a robot diving to save people, isn't it? And the movie also said that the three laws actually have loopholes, which is why the robots "became bad" later...

But it's a movie starring Will Smith, what does that have to do with you?

"Well... sorry, I only remember this law."

Alice smiled embarrassingly, but it was also out of sincerity. After all, remembering the content of the book but not knowing the name of the book, and even the author himself "seems to have heard" in front of the author himself, this is really... too embarrassing.

After all, according to Mr. Lawrence, this gentleman is very famous.

"When did you bring it up?"

Asked this way, Alice is really curious, when did Asimov come up with this famous quote in "I, Robot" starring Will Smith?

"Oh, that's too early."

Asimov, who was obviously in his sixties, looked at Mr. Lawrence beside him, and said with a smile, "In the 1950s, when I wrote the book "I, Robot", you were only six or seven years old, right?"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Alice: "As for you, child, then... child? Child? What's wrong with you? Child?"

Alice shook her head vigorously, her fair and tender face was flushed red.

"Ahem, I'm sorry, I drank vodka secretly, goodbye!"

After leaving a word, she fled away quickly.

So embarrassing!

It was the first time in Alice's twelve years that she felt so embarrassed!

A series of changes made it impossible for her to stand in front of Asimov. She trotted all the way to a corner, separated by groups of guests, and finally managed to avoid him.

"what the hell?"

Standing against the wall, Alice held her forehead speechlessly.

Asimov, she admitted inwardly, did know the name was familiar!

World-renowned science fiction master, what Asimov!

But as for what works this writer has written...she really doesn't know.

In fact, upon hearing this name suddenly, Alice subconsciously associated it with Verne.

Needless to say, Verne's name needs no introduction. "Captain Grant's Sons and Daughters", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Mysterious Island" are all well-known masterpieces. The name of "Father" can be said to spread all over the world.

But who is this Isaac Asifmo...?

"Son, what are you doing standing in the corner on such a night worth enjoying?"

Seeing Alice "fleeing away" not far away, Speck couldn't help thinking, could it be that this girl was bullied by someone, so he walked through layers of crowds to come to her.

"Are you... ah, Mr. Speck from Bantam Books?"

Alice's eyes lit up immediately when she saw someone coming.

"I want to ask a question, sir, Isaac Asimov, what are the famous works of this writer?"

Suddenly being asked such a question, Speck was somewhat dazed, but seeing that Alice did not look like she had just been bullied, she felt relieved: "Mr. A master, and he's here tonight."

As he spoke, he pointed directly to a corner of the living room, and Asimov's figure was clearly visible through the crowd.

"Mr. Asimov is over 60 years old this year and has written about 400 books. As for the works, have you heard of the "Galaxy Empire" series?"

Alice shook her head in a daze. For orthodox science fiction, she had only read Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem", and hadn't even read Jules Verne's works.

"...does it have something to do with Lucas' Star Wars?"

Speck burst out laughing, expecting an elementary school girl to have read Asimov, which is a bit embarrassing.

"This...haha, I think you should ask Lucas, kid."

"As for the Galactic Empire, it is a series of novels written by Asimov since the 1950s. It tells that when humans entered the universe with the power of robots, they established an entire Galactic Empire in the Milky Way. This country is very large, there are 25 million inhabited planets alone, spanning 100,000 light-years, and the population is as high as several trillion!"

Grand, it is grand, but as soon as she knew it was a science fiction novel from the 1950s, Alice didn't need to read it to know that this work would definitely not catch her eyes.

Just hearing the so-called grand scene, she couldn't help curling her lips. The writing period is here, even if the scale is doubled, it is estimated that the characters only eat Big Macs for lunch, right?

I only heard Speck continue to say: "Then one day, a genius was born, a mathematician named Hari Seldon invented a new discipline called psychohistory, and in layman's terms, it is macroscopic prophecy."

"...Macro?"

Speck nodded and said: "Yes, macro, this so-called prophecy is actually to use mathematical formulas to reason about the social behavior of people with a huge base, and then draw the possibility. You know, children, this is science fiction, but Not Lord of the Rings!"

"Uh... well, what then? What did the priest prophesy?"

At this moment, facing such a cute little girl who "knew nothing" like Alice, Speck was really inspired to tell a story.

He first looked at the bustling crowd around him, made a show of revealing the shocking secret, and then opened his mouth mysteriously.

"You know, Alice, that Seldon prophesied that the Galactic Empire, which has existed for 10,000 years, will soon be destroyed even though there is no warning!"

In this way, he revealed the mystery in a tone almost aria.

Then, I saw Alice standing there with a calm face.

Speck: "..."

Alice: "..."

Speck: "..."

Alice: "...Oh."

Speck: "...oh?"

"Just an 'oh'!?"

Speck shouted in frustration: "The Galactic Empire is about to be destroyed! Alice, a huge empire spanning 100,000 light-years, with 25 million inhabited planets and trillions of people, has gone through a whole After ten thousand years of history, it will be destroyed!!"

Hearing Speck's high-pitched shout, the happy men and women around couldn't help but stop talking and all focused their eyes.

In fact, it was striking enough when Speck started talking to the only girl in the room.

But now, what's the situation?

"oh……"

Facing everyone's different gazes and Speck's frustrated shouts, Alice remained calm.

"Then the sci-fi version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms will begin."

Speck blinked, but he knew this famous Chinese book.

"Uh... yes."