Chapter 323: Stone Breaking the Sky!
Even though Lin Han really wants to share this good news with others now, he must verify it carefully so as not to make a joke. There are countless people on the Internet waiting to see him make a fool of himself.
Just an email cannot prove anything. If it is an email written by someone else to deceive Lin Han, it would be no exaggeration to be careful!
This is not Lin Han’s conspiracy theory. It is indeed something similar happened before. This email address is directly exposed to the outside world. Some people who know a little bit of skills can disguise their sending names. Maybe Lin Han will enjoy a series of fraud treatments afterwards based on this reply.
It is not difficult for some boring people to play pranks and fake Nature magazine, so Lin Han simply called Alex, a friend of Penguin Publishing Group. They are all from the British publishing industry and should be considered to be relatively familiar with each other.
The phone beeped several times before Alex answered slowly: "Hi, my friend, good morning!"
"Sorry, I call you at this time. I have something urgent to ask you to check for me. Are you free now?" Lin Han's tone was quite anxious and was eager to verify.
"Of course, I have time for you at any time. Let me tell you, I will do my best to do what I do." Alex closed the door of his office, then walked to the window and began to overlook the gray London.
Lin Han took a deep breath and said directly: "I had posted a message on Facebook that I wanted to cooperate with science fiction magazines, and then I received a bunch of emails from Nature magazine. You heard it right, it is the famous Nature. Why do they also publish science fiction works that are not related to academics? Is this email true or false? I was very excited and nervous, worried that it was someone else's prank."
Alex thought it was something, and he laughed and said, "This sounds like a very common thing, because since the birth of Nature, it has been publishing science fiction novels. Your science fiction novels are very popular and of high quality, so it is normal for them to invite you to Nature."
What Alex looks like is sparse and ordinary things have become an uproar in Lin Han's eyes. Under different cultural backgrounds, the relationship between science and science fiction is inconsistent!
Science is experimental and reflects the real world; while novels are fictional, thought-provoking, and can not be directly related to reality, let alone science fiction novels that describe a future that does not exist.
Many scientists in China oppose science fiction novels and even take the lead in suppressing science fiction novels! In the 1980s, it was tragically eliminated as "spiritual pollution". Now there are still some science fiction novels that are inexplicably not allowed to be published or published, and some collections have been deleted. China's "Nature Magazine" is a core journal of the country, but no science fiction novel has been published on it.
"You know, in my opinion, publishing science fiction novels by Nature magazine is simply a fantasy. I didn't know about this before, why didn't I find out earlier?"
"Brother, calm down, this is not a big deal. I will call their magazine to verify it immediately and then reply to you. Even if the email you received is a prank, I still feel like I have let Nature publish your novel, and we have a cooperative relationship with Nature Publishing Group."
Alex is an editor, but he is also a businessman. If Lin Han's "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy" was serialized in Nature magazine, its influence would have gone to the elite class around the world with Nature magazine, and at the same time, it would have saved a lot of publicity costs. It would be beneficial to release physical books later on with them, otherwise it would not have been so strongly promoted.
After hearing these words, Lin Han felt relieved. After hanging up the phone, he didn't wait. He opened the official website of Nature magazine and then Googled for related matters.
As a result, I realized that Nature magazine really did not have a recent event to store science fiction novels. Many years ago, they published book reviews of science fiction novels against Verne, and there were also extremely important reasons in the history of the establishment of Nature Magazine!
Short science fiction novels that are purely for fun make readers excited, and their enthusiastic responses are unexpected to the editors. Many people have even become die-hard fans of the column. Some works have been included in the Best Science Fiction Collection of the Year, and science fiction writers and even scientists have begun to write articles for it.
There are about three humans who provide science fiction novel manuscripts to Nature magazine: the first category is full-time science fiction writers, including veterans in science fiction and middle-aged and young science fiction writers like Wen Qi; the second category is scientific understanding of writing science fiction, such as biologist Cohen and scientist Stewart; the third category is amateur science fiction writers, who come from all walks of life, but the novels they write are excellent in quality, so they are selected.
In 2005, the European Science Fiction Society also awarded the award for "Best Science Fiction Publication" to Nature magazine, of course this is just one of its inconspicuous awards.
These novels are analyzed from the themes and the purpose of their creation, and cannot be said to be mediocre. Their reflection on the development of science and technology, their imagination and speculation of the future world are transmitted to the public in an entertainment way through the academic media with a huge influence of "Nature" magazine. It turns out that writing novels is also about science!
Even Nature magazine also gave a simple classification for science fiction novels. These ten categories are: Future World - dystopia, robots - artificial intelligence, brain science, cloning technology, immortality - vampire, plant protectionism, environment - nuclear power pollution, extraterrestrial civilization, time and space travel - multiverse, future world - scientific and technological outlook.
Extraterrestrial civilizations and time travel are traditional themes discussed in science fiction works. Lin Han's new book "A Guide to the Milky Way" is such a type, but he is a little worried that the black humorous style he wrote conflicts with the serious positioning of the magazine.
But after careful investigation, he felt at ease, because from the summary of netizens in the foreign SF forum, it shows that Nature magazine's selection of themes and contents of science fiction works is diverse and all kinds of.
Some are humorous, some are serious, some are absurd, some are magical, and have no taboos or restraints at all. They are very suitable for the style of "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy"!
However, those published science fiction novels have one common feature, that is, their length is very short, and they are all miniature novels that are shorter than short stories.
Although "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy" is only 80,000 words, it is enough to serialize many issues on it. Before, no science fiction novel could make Nature magazine an exception. Whether Lin Han's book can be published now depends on the other party's courage and love for his own novels.
At this time, the international community from the UK called over long distance, and Alex said, "Congratulations, Lin. The editor-in-chief of Nature magazine said that he did send you an email. He is your reader and has read many of your previous science fiction novels. So this time I want you to come to their side to serialize novels. But there is one thing they have to confirm that your novel is of excellent quality!"
"Thank you very much, you helped me a lot. I will send the English version of the novel there as soon as possible. I can't wait to see the novel appear on "Nature"!"
Lin Han is full of energy now, so he decided to go into seclusion for himself again and figure out the English version of the novel. Then, both Chinese and English are serialized at the same time, and it will be comfortable to think about it.
At the same time, he also needs some advice from the editors of Nature to see if his Chinese humor is not authentic after being translated into English, and if there is anything to be modified. After all, London is the birthplace of British black humor.
Lin Han has not had this sense of urgency for a long time, and he never did this when he wrote "The Three-Body Problem". It was "Nature". He had the opportunity to print his name on it in his previous life and in this life, and he had printed it for many issues. It would definitely make people envious and even make people think he was crazy!
After making up his mind, he sent a text message on his mobile phone to Chen Jiaxuan, Li Wenyuan and Tan Lin, asking them not to disturb him, and once again went into seclusion and began to translate and modify it!
Chen Jiaxuan, who received the text message, was almost stunned. Even though she was in the entertainment industry, the names of Nature and Science magazines were also deafening. It was a platform that many academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences did not have the chance to be on the list. Lin Han actually said he wanted to sprint?
When she hurriedly called, she found that Lin Han's cell phone had been turned off, so she had to wait for the time being to go back to get off work before asking. She was very confident in Lin Han. As long as Lin Han said something, she would never fail. This kind of trust was almost a blindness in her bones!
Li Wenyuan is different. The shocking news made his ears almost deaf. Did Nature magazine say it was just right? When he left Lin Han’s house, he was discussing with him which science fiction magazine in the United States would cooperate with Lin Han. As a result, less than three hours after he came back, Lin Han threw a bombshell.
As a domestic writer, Li Wenyuan has limited familiarity with the European and American science fiction circles. He really doesn’t have the courage to equate Lin Han’s new book with the Nature magazine!
In the email address in front of me was lying in the read-only version of the novel sent by Lin Han. When Li Wenyuan opened the file and saw the top few big characters, he took it for granted.
Such an excellent science fiction novel is of course worthy of any magazine in the world. If even Lin Han’s science fiction novels cannot be included in "Nature", then what other books can it be?
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The new week has begun again. Author Jun updated early just to find some recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. After buying things on Double Eleven, Author Jun decided to cleanse his heart and be a good person!
Chapter completed!