Chapter 719
Some readers only think this story is good, but they can't tell what's good about it.
They can't tell what they like, whether it is warm strokes, magical imagination, or unique language to serve as the core of science fiction novels.
Anyway, it’s just optimistic, it’s just attractive, it’s just moving!
Although everyone has a lot of controversy over the heroine's approach, everyone thinks it is indeed an excellent science fiction novel. If the work is too bad, who will discuss it?
In the critics, literary critics especially like the narrative time in the novel where the past, present and future are intertwined. This story adds endless charm, making the novel "Arrival" full of a strange feeling, attracting readers and guiding them to think. At the same time, this narrative method is also very consistent with the theme expression.
The famous female critic Liu Fang commented on her blog: "This is the most realistic science fiction novel I have ever read about the psychological state of the heroine. Even Lin Han's previous work "The Wife of the Time Traveler" was not so shocking. If I were the heroine, I would have chosen to give birth to my daughter. As for whether to change her daughter's life, I have to wait for more than 20 years before talking about it!"
This is also the idea of many female readers. The protagonists of many science fiction novels are from the perspective of men and rarely have works about women.
Even some female authors in the industry will subconsciously set the protagonist as a male when writing, so Lin Han’s novel focusing on women and mothers is rare!
A lot of them agree with Qiao Yu's approach in the novel. Although some of them cannot understand Lin Han's metaphors and principles of physics at all, they also understand that the heroine's ability to predict the future is by rushing to learn the alien writings.
Everyone couldn't help but wonder what the alien's words looked like, are they really similar to the hieroglyphs of our ancestors?
At this time, Lin Han was sitting in the study with a pencil. He wanted to surprise netizens, that is, to draw the words of the seven-limb bucket in the novel.
He had watched the movie "Arrival" before, and his super memory gave him the ability to give the scene he saw in his head!
Although he could not design a complete set of language and text like the worker behind the movie, there was no problem in depicting this text as a totem.
The only problem is that Lin Han is not a good sketcher, and he can only be considered ordinary in his director storyboard scripts.
Fortunately, this text does not require too much superb painting skills, just trace it step by step, so Lin Han was very satisfied with the semicircular font on the drawing paper in front of him!
This is exactly the same as what he looked in his mind. It was almost reduced in the same proportion. It was drawn intact, but it was not like a human being, but made with a computer machine.
He used a scanner to scan his freshly baked works onto the computer, and then passed them to the Weibo post, writing: "Everyone is curious about what the text of the Qilimb bucket looks like, so I drew one. Can anyone know what this means?"
The text on this picture is like a landscape painting that splashes ink, and the semicircular figures are like ink sputtering out, which looks a bit real, and has enough strangeness, intelligence and mystery.
This ink spot-like pattern looks like cursive script written by a brush, but in fact it was drawn bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by Lin Han!
The thickness of the strokes will change with the speaker's voice and the writing speed. As introduced in the novel, this symbolic text can be split into 12 basic parts, each part is spliced with different circular elements, so that complex words and sentences can be expressed.
In fact, Lin Han himself didn't know what the thing he drew was expressing. He just found the most direct and clear pattern from the movie scene in his mind!
He himself didn't know the answer, so these netizens must not know it, they could only be happy.
Who knew that as soon as this picture was put on, many netizens responded, as if they were staying on Weibo all day long waiting for Lin Han to update!
"So the words of aliens are like this. Teacher Lin, can you predict the future now?"
"Is this word a passage? euse-me? Who can help me translate it!"
"I'm a seven-limbing language major at level 8. Teacher Lin's words mean that he is about to explode. The new book will be released soon. You guys, you guys, have your wallet ready as soon as possible!"
"666, the translation upstairs can only give zero points. It is obvious that it is to forward this Weibo, and something good will happen within the next month! Everyone will turn it on!"
"High-definition, no watermark praise, right-click to save it!"
"Will this pattern come out around the perimeter? I really want to buy it."
"This is the most sincere attitude of writing science fiction novels. They are not making up random things, but they have truly created a language. Teacher Lin must be praised!"
Many times, everyone thinks that this kind of text actually does not exist, but the text in front of you looks like a painting, with many Chinese elements in it. Netizens think that no wonder this will be cracked by Chinese linguists.
Compared with netizens' comments, Hao Junchen, a special commentator of the People's Daily, focused on the writing techniques of this novel. He felt that this writing technique was eye-catching, not sticking to the status quo, and was perfectly combined with the plot!
"In fact, compared to the short story, the story told by "Arrival" is very long. From Qiao Yu's instructed to communicate with aliens to the aliens leaving, from her and her husband's understanding that they divorced and started a new relationship with each other, and their daughter from birth to death.
However, the narrative time is very short. The beginning of the article is when the husband asks her if she wants a child, and the end of the article is when Qiao Yu smiles and answers yes.
It can be seen that the whole story tells the story in the gap between questions and answers. In this perhaps less than a minute, Qiao Yu recalled her half of her life and her daughter's life. In this long and short period of time, Lin Han achieved a perfect construction!
The sequence of the novel is complicated. Compared with the story telling, when the husband asks Qiao Yu a question, the two of them meet, meet, fall in love and get married are all past tense, while the birth of their daughter, their divorce and their death are the future.
However, it is not until the end of the novel that readers can gradually clarify the sequence of the entire story, because the whole novel is full of errors, and the timing of the story does not match the timing of the story and the timing between the narrative text.
Time has a color of fate and destiny here. Lin Han used such a touching story that narrates time to explore it, and guided readers to think about the ancient philosophical issue of free will!
Lin Han’s ability to control the plot is different from the past. He handles time very cleverly and tells the story very movingly, attracts readers, and deepens the theme of the article. At the same time, it also provides an example for other authors to create. It turns out that time can still be played like this!"
This is not the only one who praises Lin Han. In fact, every time his new work is born, he will receive a lot of praise, and now it is no exception.
Fan An, editor-in-chief of "People's Literature", commented: "Lin Han is one of the most outstanding novelists in the science fiction literary world and has received the highest reviews. His short stories are extremely shocking and the sci-fi taste is very authentic! If you don't read Lin Han, you won't understand science fiction!"
Wei Gelei, editor of "Writer World", also gave a high praise, "Lin Han will be the ideas, talents, vivid imagination and rare insight that are worthy of use in a novel. Readers must read it repeatedly, and you can get a great sense of reading every time!"
"In order to make the brain work properly, I always recommend that people read 52 books a year. But if you only have time to read one, then the "Arrival" and even "Lin Han Short Stories" are your best choice!"
When she was interviewed by the media, Dong Qing, a famous CCTV host, praised her. If the program "Reader" she produced had just finished, she would have wanted to invite Lin Han to last show again!
Of course, there is also Lin Han’s loyal friend Li Wenyuan, this recognized science fiction writer, who simply wrote on Weibo: "Without magnificent scenes or fashionable and cool high-tech, Lin Han can also write a novel that leads to the deepest meaning of science fiction. I am very glad to be able to live in this era and see one classic work after another! "
When Douban Reading introduced this book "Arrival" in the Good Books column of the Week, the editor described it as follows: "Lin Han's science fiction novels are often filled with outstanding ideas and sharp values. The throwing of every question is a challenge to readers. Even though his creation speed is amazing, the quality of his works has not decreased at all. Almost every work has become a classic that science fiction readers and even the vast majority of ordinary readers regard as the standard!"
The media and famous writers praised Lin Han as always, and even these praises spread abroad. Those foreign readers once again felt the difference.
The Chinese are reading Lin Han’s new book again, but they just can’t see it. They just want to draw circles and curse you on the Internet!
Ins, tumblr, reddit, faebook and other foreign social media and many forums, the alien text of the seven-limb barrel drawn by Lin Han was spread before the novel.
Many loyal readers of Lin Han know that his new book is about the text that looks like a pattern in front of him, but there is no information about what he wrote!
He himself did not translate nor authorize others to translate. At present, he only hoped for kind Chinese readers and overseas students to see if they could translate the story in its original form.
Chapter completed!