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Chapter 443 "Hyberrian"

"hype day? What's the name?"

Miao Hong looked puzzled. He had been in the United States for many years, but he didn't know about this word at all. Do you have this word? Anyway, he never used this word in his daily life.

Lin Han explained, "Hype is the name of a giant in Greek mythology. Some are translated as Heberon, some are called Xu Bolion and Heparin. However, we are used to call him Heberian. He is one of the twelve Titan gods, the son of Gaia, the goddess of earth and the god of sky Uranus, the father of the sun, the goddess of moon and the goddess of dawn. He was only sent to Taltarus hell by the gods of Olympus headed by Zeus."

Greek mythology is not unfamiliar to most people, but almost all they know are the latest generation of the Olympian gods, which are very unfamiliar to Heberian.

Miao Hong nodded in a slight sense of understanding. He was puzzled, "Why do science fiction novels have something to do with ancient Greek myths?"

"You can go back and see the poem of the same name by John Keats, which will give you a little inspiration. I won't reveal it in detail!" Lin Han wanted this effect, and he didn't want to describe the specific plot just like this.

Keeping this word in mind with all your heart, Miao Hong nodded, and being able to get ahead of the list of Lin Han’s new book types is something that no one can envy!

...

After Lin Han sent him out of the office, he felt relieved. In fact, he had considered it for a long time to choose "Hippleren" as his new book.

This book was originally a science fiction novel written by American writer Dan Simmons. The title is based on the long poem of the same name by the British poet John Keats. It is known as a science fiction classic that is as insurmountable as the Galaxy Empire. It is a veritable peak of space opera and is also a vast and magnificent interstellar epic!

Since its publication, this story full of truth and credibility, facing difficult moral choices has used its unique paving techniques to celebrate the universe's masterpiece that has been celebrated for billions of years, sweeping all heavyweight science fiction awards, from the Hugo Award to the Nebula Award, the Trajectory Award, the Spanish Science Fiction Award, the Japanese Nebula Award, the Japanese Hugo Award, the French Cosmic Award, and was shortlisted for the Arthur Clark Award, the British Science Fiction Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Award. It was voted as one of the top ten science fiction novels in 1990 by the "Trail" magazine. It was selected as the top ten science fiction novels in 1997 and 2006 in the world!

The majesty of "Hiberian" has conquered one readers after another, and even professional book reviews such as "New York Times·Book Review", "Washington Post·Book World", "Science", "Trails", "Asimov Science Fiction Magazine", "Denver Post", and "Los Angeles News" couldn't help but praise it.

The name of this novel comes from the long poem of the same name by the British poet John Keats, which tells the theme of ancient Greek mythology, but Keats died before completing this poem!

The first three volumes of the long poem "Herberian" have been completed tell the story of the older generation of Titan gods headed by Sattern, who were overthrown and expelled by the Olympus gods headed by their children Jupiter. The Titan god lost its power, and only the sun god Heberian maintained his dominance and dignity, but the Titan god did not surrender, and they planned to restore it again!

In Dan Simmons' science fiction novel, he used this long poem and incorporated it into the novel. The whole novel is mainly about the end of the world when the end of the world comes, and the seven pilgrims who head to the tomb of time in Heberian, sharing their stories about each other's past on the way.

The full text consists of six stories, telling the connection between pilgrims and shrike, revealing the history of the earth for seven centuries, and revealing the relationship between shrike and the future of mankind!

The six stories are: priests, soldiers, poets, scholars, detectives and consuls. The stories with different styles are soft in the same article, which have both the grandeur of science fiction classics and the poetry lacking in science fiction works.

Its writing structure is poetic and has super high literary attainments. It is hailed as the science fiction work that is most likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature!

In fact, its background setting is not new. Don’t read the ancient Greek mythology called "Herberian", but it is actually the conflict between the rising artificial intelligence and humans in the future interstellar world. There are no 10,000 novels written in science fiction novels with such themes, and there are probably eight thousand.

But the author creatively structured a magnificent world in such a novel with interesting reading, manifested in the adventures of the characters, and in the various macro conflicts in this world!

He constructs a future world that is forward-looking, alienated, common to real life, and easy for readers to accept.

When Lin Han was reading this book, he had only one feeling, that is, the vicissitudes of time. People are like something in time. They were thrown into the river of history, and there was not even a single splash of water!

The narrative of "Heeberian" has an epic feeling, putting the small characters in a grand historical context, the combination of the two is naturally traceless, and the seemingly independent stories are all linked together. In the narrative of each story, the characteristics of the story itself and the characters in the story are clearly reflected, rendering the atmosphere of the independent story to the extreme, and then switching to different environments during the pilgrimage and the stories of other pilgrims, there is a strong sense of exoticism.

Lin Han once fought on Douban for the translation name of "Haiberian", because they were shocking to add the prefix of "When a Human Fighting Robot" to the novel, turning science fiction epics into funny books. Imagine if ordinary readers will have the desire to buy books like "When a Human Fighting Robot 1: Heberian"?

Later, under the strong protests of science fiction fans, Duke Book made a compromise, not only ending the publication plan of the "When Humans Fight Robot: Heberian" series of books, but also took two years to reposition and package it and delete the previous prefix.

If even serious science fiction fans don’t like it, then who else can I sell the novel to when it is published?

...

Lin Han became very excited when he thought that this unknown science fiction classic would bloom in his hands. This novel was regarded as a myth in the circle of science fiction enthusiasts. Almost no readers except this have heard of this book.

It is probably the most appropriate to describe it as a pearl covering the dust. There are too few readers of "Herberian" in China. It is obviously a novel of the same level as "Three-Body Problem", but readers are even more than ten thousand of "Three-Body Problem".

Not one!

Lin Han’s influence is extraordinary now. Under his radiation, this novel will shine its own light in a new world different from the earth!

Slowly calming down his complex and excited mood, Lin Han began to recall the specific content to see if there was anything he needed to modify.

The reason why the masterpiece is a masterpiece is that it describes something fresh in memory in a limited space. A pilgrimage, seven people from different backgrounds gather together, and six thought-provoking stories, which bring out the history of space opera after a thousand years of human beings after a great mistake, from the forced exile to the prosperity of today's hegemony era, the prosperity of artificial intelligence, and the long-distance transmission gates allowed the Tethis River to flow through tens of millions of galaxies, Hawking drives, flashback technology, and Paulson physiotherapy.

There are also the opposition between the expellers (some of the interstellar wandering humans) and the overlord, the weakness of Christianity, people's dependence on long-distance transmitters, or the dependence on the ring network under artificial intelligence manipulation, and the core technology core of artificial intelligence inexplicably attaches importance to Heberian!

These are all ideas that need to be thought about, and it is not possible to lack any place. What's more, this book is also a challenge for Lin Han. After all, he has written various types of science fiction novels, but he has never tried such a vague poetic science fiction novel.

Previous Chinese translations actually missed the poetic aspects to a greater or lesser extent. "Heeberian" is known as a long science fiction poem. Its appearance has had a significant impact on the significance of science fiction novels. This is a science fiction novel born purely from poetry, which has successfully integrated science fiction and poetry!

Although Lin Han can recite a few modern poems, it is very difficult for him to actually write poetry. There are two different types of writing poetry and writing essays. Lin Han not only needs to tell the story of this work well, but also has to inherit the form of combining poetry and essays.

This is the difficulty, this is the place that is enough to shock the literary world!

The most exciting and moving part of the previous works of many science fiction masters is often the philosophy of science fiction lenses; while the Psalms of Heberian were almost completed in one go, traveling through time and space in a vast way, and looking at the overall view of mankind and history seemed to be meticulous.

The quotations, place names and characters that can be seen everywhere in the novel can reflect this point. The original author chose to pay tribute to Keats' unfinished poem "Herberian", which clearly demonstrated his confidence in continuing his mythological poems.

The story is set in the distant future, and it even relates to the ultimate destiny of mankind. The author's thoughts and answers to these questions come from the profound understanding of the living state of human beings in real life. This novel is like a scroll and a hymn. The author takes a different approach and shoulder to shoulder with masters such as Asimov!

...

This newly rented office is really not a good place to think about. It just so happened that Lin Han and Miao Hong’s affairs had been settled, so he got up and prepared to leave. He also chose the place to write.

Chen Jiaxuan was outside telling the employees about work content. After seeing Lin Han come out, she came over: "Have you decided to hand over our company to Miao Hong?"
Chapter completed!
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