Underground Fire, a short science fiction, is a typical coal-mining theme literature work. The story is illustrated based on the underground gasification, realism creation method is applied to give an expression of grand themes about natural disasters, technological progress and human survival in this work. The using of rhetoric devices, (such as metaphor and comparison) as well as the using of narrative techniques (such as intensive narrative and time jump) are the main writing features in this work, that significantly enhances the literary flavor of this science fiction. This work does not only eulogize scientific ideal, but also fairly criticize blindness and non-rationality.

Underground Fire  /  Liu Cixin  /  science fiction  /  literature of coal mine  /  realism