Chapter 349 "Bouquet for Algernon"
Anyone who is familiar with the circle knows that once the Galaxy Award essay contest begins, the Galaxy Award selection work will of course begin. This is the most prosperous event in the Chinese science fiction world, especially the many excellent science fiction works that emerged in last year will be commended here.
Among so many excellent books, Lin Han’s novels and short stories are very popular. Any book is a classic, but if you want the judges to choose, it is completely embarrassing others!
The Galaxy Awards ceremony has a traditional award called Reader Nomination Award. It used to be the readers of the science fiction world to choose the works that are most popular among readers.
With the development of communication methods, letters have gradually been eliminated from society and can vote on the Galaxy Award webpage specially created by Science Fiction World Magazine.
The total number of people participating in the voting last year was only more than 100,000. At that time, science fiction was still a self-admiring niche literature, and now it has slowly entered the mainstream.
Reader nomination awards have always been a test of a book's status in the hearts of the audience. Lin Han successfully won the award last year. This year everyone is optimistic about him winning it again, but which book is more popular among domestic readers?
No one knows this answer. All Lin Han's novels are very popular. When the voting channel was just opened, readers who had been following for a long time rushed in and began to vote for their favorite novels!
However, the fierce traffic suddenly paralyzed the website, and the readers behind could not squeeze in at all, and the readers who squeezed in in front could not complete the vote. The programmer who designed the website did not expect that there would be so many people.
Netizens who cannot vote were angry. What kind of junk website can't get in after the start, and it's even more rubbish than buying a train ticket!
The programmers who had already returned home to rest were urgently recruited back. They tried to increase the server load with their red eyes, and it took several hours before they slowly started running.
During the voting session, all Lin Han's novels were mentioned the most, but "I, Robot" and "Jurassic Park" fell behind first. Their protagonists' backgrounds and names are not Chinese, so they are inherently different in terms of substitution.
The Three-Body Problem can be said to be a sarcastic trilogy that is very attractive, especially the second part is regarded as a masterpiece among the works of gods, so it was vaguely ahead in the voting on the first day.
As for Lin Hancai's new book "The Wandering Guide to the Galaxy", it has also become a dark horse. It has only been serialized in the first part, but I look forward to it. Many readers think that this kind of black humor and science fiction are very good, so the ranking is closely behind "The Three-Body Problem".
The third place is not the novel, but Lin Han's 20,000-word "The Wandering Earth". This magnificent short story surpasses many novels, which surprises readers, but can be directly accepted.
In just 24 hours, the number of IPs participating in the voting exceeded 200,000, which is more than the total number of participants in the previous session. In just one year, the development of science fiction literature has reached such a rapid level!
Lin Han, who was far away in Cyprus, also connected to the hotel's wifi, and he was excited to vote for "Three-Body Problem".
"Are you okay? Let's go swimming by the beach!" Chen Jiaxuan couldn't help but urge. This was the last stop of the trip, and she didn't want to end it.
Lin Han closed the laptop and quickly took the room card into his pocket in flip-flops, "Okay, let's go. You must have been in the desert for a long time, and now you see the water."
Chen Jiaxuan took Lin Han's hand and came to the elevator entrance. She nodded seriously and replied: "You discovered it, I'm afraid you won't want to go to the desert again in this life."
At this time, the elevator jingled. After slowly opening, Lin Han found that a family from abroad was also preparing to go downstairs.
The blond little loli with front teeth was holding a cage in her hand. A little white mouse was running around in the cage. She said in a silence: "Charlie, let's go and see if the sea is good later. You haven't seen the sea yet!"
The squeaking little mouse didn't know if it understood, and it couldn't stop for a moment.
Lin Han had seen a little girl with pets, but when did the little girl like to keep mice? He couldn't help but look at the family and grinned himself.
The hotel is very close to the beach, the warm sunshine shines on your body, the salty and humid sea breeze blows on your face, the tall palm trees and continuous parasols, everything is so beautiful.
After finding a seat to sit down, the little white mouse kept flashing through Lin Han's head, and he completely forgot about what was happening around him.
"Hey, what are you thinking? The sunscreen is almost squeezed out by you."
Chen Jiaxuan was originally waiting for Lin Han to apply sunscreen on her back and neck, but after waiting for a long time, she found that there was no movement at all. She turned her head and saw that Lin Han was actually in deep thought.
After being interrupted by Chen Jiaxuan, Lin Han came to his senses from his trance. He shook his head and said, "I'm thinking about the little white mouse just now, I want to write it in the new book."
"Does the protagonist have a teenage mouse of the same style?"
"Do you know what jealous mice usually do?" Lin Han asked back. He was worried about the theme of the new book, but was inspired by a little girl.
Chen Jiaxuan frowned, "The mice are usually subject to various experiments in the laboratory, and many mice die every day. Isn't your new book written in space opera? Why did you jump on the mice again? Could it be that your protagonist is a crazy biologist who ends up falling in love with the mice who do the experiments by yourself?"
"It's okay to write a book about space opera in the future, but it will be the new book!" Lin Han suddenly stood up and said ambitiously.
Who is the most famous guinea pig in science fiction history?
It is estimated that ten readers will say the same name, that is Alginon!
Algernon is a teenage mouse in the novel "Bouquet for Algernon". Two scientists conducted experiments on Algernon, a teenage mouse, and made it very smart and were willing to cooperate in the experiment.
But later the teenage mouse was unwilling to cooperate, and his intelligence gradually declined and then died. The protagonist of the novel, Charlie Gordon, also underwent the same operation. He changed from a mentally retarded to a genius, and also had love, but the problems that happened to Algernon were also in Charlie.
This is a story that makes people feel pain and warmth after reading it. It can make people smile and feel sad. Who says science fiction stories cannot be touching?
The whole novel is written by the protagonist Charlie Gordon, and the author Daniel Case is extremely well-written and involves a lot of psychological knowledge.
He imitated the tone of a mentally retarded person at the beginning of the article. As the plot develops, the protagonist becomes smart and then changes his description method so that readers can directly see the process.
At the end of the article, when the protagonist's intelligence declined, his description used many long sentences because the protagonist in the novel no longer used commas. This small detail increases the reader's sense of substitution. The author even wrote many typos and grammatical errors, which can better show the protagonist's mentally retarded identity.
This report like a diary, misuse of typos and punctuation marks is deliberately created by the author Daniel Case, which can enhance the gap in the hero's IQ before and after the operation and the tension in the story.
When Lin Han read this book for the first time, he thought he had bought a stolen version of the book. He saw typos in the second line of the first page. Looking back, he continued to find many typos.
In anger, he was about to take the book to the bookstore owner to argue. As a result, when he searched the comments on the Internet, he found that many people were in this situation. Many people thought they had bought the stolen version of the book!
From the appearance of the typo to the disappearance, the protagonist Charlie has experienced a mental journey from darkness to light. When the typo in the last progress report appears again, everything is over and he becomes a mentally retarded again.
Perhaps this is the saddest point. Readers watched Charlie go from reading typos indiscriminately to reading wise thoughts, and then slowly become dull and mentally again in the end.
This is like a poem written by Lin Han before, "If I had never seen the sun, I might have endured the darkness." If Charlie had always been mentally retarded, he would not have the pain that followed!
This science fiction novel has been loved by readers since its publication. It was originally just a novella and had won the Hugo Award. When the author Daniel Case expanded the book into a long and long version, he won the Nebula Award.
"The Bouquet Dedicated to Algernon" can be said to be the most successful in the film and television production of science fiction novels, and has been adapted many times.
In 1968, it was adapted into the famous movie "Charlie". Cliff Robertson, the actor who played the leading actor Charlie, won the Oscar winner with this role!
At the same time, it is also the most successful Japanese drama, which has been adapted into popular Japanese dramas twice, touching a group of audiences.
For this book, Lin Han planned to change the protagonist's background to China, but the title will not change. The mouse is still called Alginon. It is hard for him to imagine that the book will be changed to "The Bouquet for the White Mouse" or "The Bouquet for Wangcai/Beibei/Baby"?
When he thought of these names, he couldn't help but tremble. The original name was still nice. "Bouquet of Flowers Dedicated to Algeron" sounds so beautiful, like a long poem with gorgeous words!
Before Lin Han officially read this book, he always thought it was a romance novel with the heroine Alginnon. After reading the novel, he realized that it was a beautiful misunderstanding. (To be continued.).
Chapter completed!