A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 330 The World Science Fiction Writing Contest is now open! "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"! A cross-century science fiction book!

The New Yorker is a comprehensive intellectual and literary magazine from the United States. It was founded in 1925 and is published once a week, publishing news, novels and reviews.

Are you asking what level of specifications this magazine has in the United States?

The critic can only answer you like this:
"If you are an outsider and want to enter the metropolitan social circle, you must read The New Yorker. The stories and reviews in The New Yorker are the outline of the chat setting for city residents. Whatever The New Yorker writes, people talk about it. In the United States, literature and film are an important part of urban culture, and The New Yorker makes it an important part of the magazine. The New Yorker's art reviews are very famous, and its reputation has spread from New York to other cities in the United States. The most important thing is that the writers who write film reviews for The New Yorker can only be celebrities themselves."

Describe the status of The New Yorker in a way that is easy for Chinese readers to understand:

"It has the breadth of coverage of Story Club and the literary depth of Harvest. It is a combination of these two magazines and periodicals."

In fact, before he became famous in France and won the Goncourt Prize, Yi Jianghai's status in the world literary world was...
Is he really not qualified to receive a letter of invitation from The New Yorker?

Asian writers want to make a name for themselves in the North American literary world.

It's hard.

As for gaining recognition from foreign readers, or even being worshipped by the foreign literary world?
This is even more difficult.

Even so, whether in the Asian or European literary circles, if one wants to make a name for oneself in their respective literary fields, this is a hell-level model.

However, on the whole, with a full score of 100
If you are European and your literary attainment is 80 points, then there is a great probability that you will become famous in the world literary scene.

If you are Asian, your literary attainments will only be recognized by the mainstream literary circles in Europe and America if they exceed 100 and reach 120.

Even so, Jiang Hai's "And Then There Were None" and "Murder on the Orient Express" are two brilliant wreaths that bloomed and blossomed in the history of world literature!
However, the work that really made Jiang Hai famous in Europe and the United States was the pinnacle of healing literature, known as the hymn of human courage -

"The Old Man and the Sea"!
The Old Man and the Sea established Jiang Hai's position in the world literary world, especially in the United States. For such a healing masterpiece describing human struggle and courage, four words are enough to describe the attitude towards it:

The whole army repeats!

The United States is a country that highly values ​​personal heroism and cowboy culture. Freedom and courage have always been the culture and life attitude advocated by mainstream North American literature.

There is no doubt that the protagonist of "The Old Man and the Sea" is the old fisherman named Santiago. His challenge to the wind and waves and his courage to fight again and again after repeated failures have deeply attracted North American readers.
Based on this!

Jiang Hai, a writer from Asia, began to enter the vision of the mainstream North American literary world. He became an Asian author who symbolizes courage and freedom and is admired by the North American literary world.

Thanks to Jiang Hai's fame in the North American literary world, The New Yorker sent Jiang Hai a letter requesting him to write an article, hoping to warm up for the upcoming science fiction writing competition jointly sponsored by the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award.

Every country has its own flourishing literary themes, for example
France is fond of romantic literature, and narrative literature that describes the petty-bourgeois sentiment is extremely popular in France. This is why Jiang Hai's "The Sun Also Rises" is widely circulated in France.

Britain is fond of mystery literature. As the birthplace of "Sherlock Holmes", the British Writers' Association is extremely fond of mystery literature. It is precisely because of the yearning for mystery literature that Jiang Hai's "And Then There Were None" and "The Orient Express Murder Case" are hailed as the pinnacle of classical mystery and have the influence they have today.

As a country that has only been established for more than two hundred years.

Obviously, the United States does not have such a profound literary heritage as Britain and France. It is precisely because of the complete lack of past history that the American literary world has always been yearning for the future world.

Science fiction literature plays a very important role in the United States!
Chenghai Drama Academy, student dormitory building.

"Science Fiction Achievement Award?" Jiang Hai looked at the letter of invitation sent to him by the American magazine "The New Yorker" and immediately fell into deep thought. "It seems that this Science Fiction Achievement Award, translated into Chinese by another name, is the so-called Hugo Award?"

The Hugo Award here is not to commemorate the French romantic writer Victor Hugo, who wrote "Les Miserables".

The Hugo Award was established in memory of Hugo Gernsback, the founder of modern science fiction from Luxembourg.

In 1953, the World Science Fiction Convention decided to establish the Hugo Award, which selects influential authors in the field of science fiction based on the results of voting by fans. It was from that time that the Hugo Award began to become the United States' science fiction award.

In today's science fiction literature, there are two influential science fiction awards:

One is the American science fiction achievement award, also known as the Hugo Award.

The other one is the Nebula Award from Japan.

The Hugo Award and the Nebula Award are both the highest international awards in the field of science fiction literature, and are known as the "Nobel Prize in Science Fiction Literature."

According to the usual practice, the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award are literary awards that are selected separately.

The Hugo Awards collect science fiction books from Europe and the United States and bestow honorary literary awards.

The Nebula Award collects influential science fiction books in Asia and awards honorary medals.

These two "Nobel Prizes in science fiction" originally did not interfere with each other.
but!

Due to the stagnation of science fiction literature in the world's current literary scene, there have not been any phenomenal science fiction works for a long time. In order to promote the development of science fiction literature, the World Science Fiction Association, together with the organizers of the Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards, jointly launched a world science fiction literature essay contest!
Logically speaking, Jiang Hai has no significant influence on this world science fiction literature essay contest.
but!

This letter came from the American magazine "The New Yorker", and it specifically expressed to Jiang Hai that if possible, they hope to ask Jiang Hai to write a novel about science fiction?
The New Yorker is not the organizer of the World Science Fiction Writing Contest, but the organizer of this science fiction writing contest is from the Writers Guild of America.

Today, the entire American literary community is making intensive preparations for this World Science Fiction Writing Contest. As the most influential magazine in American paper media, The New Yorker naturally needs to speak out for the promotion of this science fiction essay contest.

"You have to ask for an article first, and then you can get the article." Looking at the letter in Jiang Hai's hand, Fatty Yang Wei was a little disapproving. He stuffed a handful of Liuwei Dihuang Pills into his mouth. "If you can't write it, then don't write it. Anyway, you don't need to use this article to prove yourself now."

In fact, Jiang Hai did not want to prove himself through this commissioned article.

Rather, he wanted to atone for his sins.
Let’s take a look at Jiang Hai’s current achievements in the literary world:

How many Chinese readers have been made miserable by the book "To Live"? How many college entrance examination candidates have been shed tears?

How many more people with depression have been diagnosed in Japan due to the book "No Longer Human"? How many people have died in Japan?
A book called "The Crucible" and a book called "Hope" directly triggered a social change in South Korea, with the main theme being that the blue sky is dead and the yellow sky should be established.
If one were to use a word to describe Jiang Hai's sin at this moment, that word would probably be -

Too many to write!

Even though the readers who lost their lives in Japan and South Korea had no direct connection with Jiang Hai,
If you insist on saying that these readers died indirectly at the hands of Jiang Hai, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that?
after all
Who said these tragic and depressing books were written by you, Jiang Hai?

In the dormitory.

Jiang Hai read the message on his mobile phone and saw that in Hokkaido, Japan, another teenager was addicted to negative thoughts after watching "No Longer Human" and finally chose to jump off the roof to relieve his sorrow.
For some reason, Jiang Hai felt a little sad?

“This is the age when they are all as young as flowers.”

Today, this reader from Japan chose to end his life.

Jianghai Hope, 20 Years Later
He is another good guy!
If there is an afterlife, I hope that twenty years later, they can still read the books they wrote!

"I had no choice before, but now I want to be a good person." Jiang Hai looked at Yang Wei, whose bed was covered with tissues, with a serious look in his eyes. "I don't want to give readers knives anymore and make them sad. This is not my intention, so I want to start over and start over! This science fiction commission is the first step in my restart. After all..."

“Science fiction represents the future.”

“Science fiction represents hope”

Jiang Hai wants to write a science fiction novel for children to read, so that they can feel happy and look forward to the future of the world.

"Science fiction for children?" Hearing Jiang Hai's words, the fat man frowned, "This seems a bit difficult?"

In fact, it is not just science fiction for children that is difficult to create, but the entire science fiction category -

The difficulty of creation is extremely huge!

One sentence is enough to explain why science fiction is so difficult to write -

"People cannot imagine anything beyond their cognition!"

Science fiction describes what happens in the future world.

Without the support of certain scientific theories, you naturally cannot imagine future life.

This is like asking an honest farmer to imagine the extravagant life of the emperor. How can a farmer who has been farming all his life imagine these things?
Even if he thought hard and put a lot of effort into it, he could only come to the conclusion:
"When the Emperor goes to the fields."

"It must be a golden hoe, right?"

It is based on this principle that science fiction is a genre of literature.

Once it is well written, it is a masterpiece.

If you can’t write well, you are just an idiot.

"The weapons used by humans in future battles in Star Wars are lightsabers and laser cannons," the fat man climbed down from the bed and told Jiang Hai his thoughts with some disdain, "Although this setting doesn't seem to be a problem for us now, but..." "Do you think humans in a thousand years will still use swords or guns when they fight?"

“Isn’t this too far-fetched?”

According to Yang Wei, if Jiang Hai's imagination was still at the level of "Star Wars", then he would not have to write a book to embarrass himself.

It has only been two or three hundred years since mankind truly entered the era of thermal weapons. In just two or three hundred years, mankind has been able to invent devastating weapons such as atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.

You want to say one or two thousand years, or even ten or twenty thousand years later.
Are humans still killing each other with swords?
What's the difference between this and the peasants imagining the emperor working in the fields with a golden hoe?
This is not pure, it's just brain watts.
"Science fiction doesn't necessarily have to be about weapons and war scenes." Jiang Hai sat on a chair and quietly lit a cigarette. "There are still many mysteries on this earth that we have not solved, for example..."

“The origin of the Pyramid of Khufu?”

“The truth about the Bermuda Triangle?”

Of the entire earth, 70% is ocean and only 30% is land.

Strictly speaking, the Earth should not be called "Earth". It should be a "Mercury" filled with hydrogen and oxygen.

5% of the earth is covered by oceans, but humans, who claim to be the overlords of the earth, know less than 95% of the oceans. Humans know nothing about more than % of the oceans and marine life.
"Humans don't even fully understand the home they have lived in for tens of thousands of years."

"Still fantasizing about the universe?"

"That's it. Are you still dreaming about going to space?"

After hearing Jiang Hai's narration, Fatty understood:

"so."

"Is the science fiction you are going to write next about the ocean? About marine life?"

"Any ideas?"

“Is there an outline?”

"Tell me, let me help you think about it."

Although the saying that three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang is true,
You let a fat guy who writes sensational articles help you write?
Make sure nothing happens.
The outrageous plot of Aquaman frying a mermaid?

"No need for help." Jiang Hai waved his hand subconsciously, then put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray. "But I have thought of the title of the new book. The name of the new book is——"

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"

Senior year is a very magical academic year. You can see many amazing people in this year.

Some people go to the library study room every day, for fear of wasting a minute or a second. They work around the clock and hope to memorize a few more English words even when taking a shit.

Some people go back and forth between job fairs and recruitment seminars every day, visit major companies, and interview in various industries.

Some people hold a camera and take photos everywhere in school every day, just because they don’t want to have any regrets about their youth.

Of course, there is no shortage of people who give up in this world, adhering to one idea -

If you don’t take the postgraduate entrance examination in your senior year, every day will be like Chinese New Year!

As long as I accept my weakness, I am invincible.

There are also quite a few fresh graduates who, facing this huge pressure as they approach graduation, choose to start:
"It's impossible for me to work. I can't work in my lifetime. I was penniless before, and now I'm heavily in debt."

"It's hard to find a job? Then I won't look for one!"

"I worked as a security guard directly after graduation, saving myself 40 years of detours, and leaving my current job to you guys."

The school will not arrange courses for freshmen in the senior year. Whether to take the postgraduate entrance examination, the civil service examination, or directly enter the workplace is all the students' independent choice.

However, there were no classes at all in the second semester of my senior year.

However, Jiang Hai still
Carrying my luggage, I dived into the teaching building and randomly selected a lucky student from a class to go to class with them.

Do you want to ask Jiang Hai why he did this?
The reason is simple.
Sleeping in class is always more comfortable than sleeping in the dormitory.

Suffering from insomnia and tossing and turning in the dorm room, you decide to take a math class and become quiet as soon as you hear it?
It's the same as sleeping in class. Jiang Hai feels
Is it more enjoyable to write in class than in a library, dormitory, or study room?

Because it will give him a feeling of slacking off.
in class.

Jiang Hai was writing furiously in his notebook, writing the outline:

"The story of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' takes place in the 19th century, to be exact, in 1866. At that time, a sensational news event occurred in the world -"

"A giant creature believed to be a narwhal frequently attacks ships from various countries. Ships from various countries are wrecked and sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. In order to uncover the truth of this mysterious phenomenon, the famous French biologist Professor Aronnax is invited to participate in the hunt organized by the US Navy. However, during the hunt, the professor, his servant Conseil, and the whaler Ned Land accidentally fall into the body of the "narwhal" and discover that it is not a carbon-based creature, but actually a giant submarine called the "Nautilus"."

Even though "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" belongs to the science fiction literature of the last century, some of the viewpoints in the book, as well as the imagination and description of the mysterious underwater world.

It is still not outdated.

As a fantasy book that enlightens children and stimulates their imagination.

To this day, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" can also be called a classic among classics.
This was when Jiang Hai was writing furiously.

The other end of the classroom.

Zhang Wenle, a monkey who was originally a classmate of Jiang Hai but later failed a grade and became a junior.

At this moment, I was arguing with a male classmate in front of me who was wearing glasses, had a bloated figure, and looked like a second-dimensional person:

"You, you are also a writer?"

"Stop joking, just go to bed."

Originally, it was just an ordinary joke.

But who would have thought that he seemed to have completely turned evil.

This fat guy, who looked to be 200-300 kilograms, turned around and stared at the monkey fiercely:

"I can usually joke with you and be very easygoing, but if you touch my reverse scale, I will let you know what true darkness is. This is the baby-faced wolf, who appears simple and innocent on the surface, but is actually smooth and transparent. You can't possibly outsmart me, because I have set you up from the beginning."

"I will let you know what cruelty and darkness are. I have never lacked the means of thunder and the heart of a bodhisattva. I have both Buddha and devil in my heart, but I have sealed the devil deeply, leaving only Buddha. I wanted to face everyone with the heart of a bodhisattva, but some people insisted that I unseal the devil in my heart. Then I want to ask you, when you face a real devil in the world——"

"Can you still keep calm?"

At this point, he pointed his thick index finger directly at the monkey's face:
"Don't joke about my dreams, it's not funny!"

"I'm warning you, this is the first and last time."

To be honest, when Monkey was attacked by the man in front of him, he was confused.

Not a buddy.
This fucking thing can also climax?!? ?
Thinking back to what this guy just said, coupled with his dark expression.

The monkey was stunned:

"This is fucking too Tang"

He didn't care about the monkey's reaction at all. After a burst of attacks, this sturdy man with a strong middle school vibe turned around and directly opened the game.

Genshin Impact, start!
See this scene.

The monkey was shocked and didn't understand at all:
"Playing Genshin Impact?"

"This guy is really hopeless."

(End of this chapter)