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Chapter 816 "2001: A Space Odyssey"

"I have a better idea. Instead of writing a separate manuscript to us, you just hand over the novels written to the Aerospace Center to "Fantasy Age". How about that?"

Li Wenyuan was a little bit contemptuous. If Lin Han's new book was sent to the Tiangong-2 space station with the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft, it would definitely attract a lot of attention!

The benefits of adding these two are obvious and will inevitably easily ignite the book market!

Lin Han was confused, "How did you know I was going to write an article for the space center?"

Apart from the staff of the space center, who told Yan Hong alone, I'm afraid Miao Hong from Galaxy Pictures may not know the news, after all, there is no time to explain it.

Li Wenyuan said proudly: "Who am I, very informed! It seems that this matter is true. The space center really wants you to write a new book within two weeks?"

"Yes, I think this opportunity is quite good. It can make science fiction novels the first book sent to space in China, and it is still very memorable. It is quite good for me personally and the overall environment."

"Then have you probably thought about what to write?" Li Wenyuan asked with concern, "Time is so tight and the quality requirements are quite high. Those officials must have other instructions!"

Lin Han smiled at the phone, "I have won some rights for myself. The right to creative freedom, as long as I don't write any reactionary content, it should be fine. Anyway, I've already planned to pass the deadline and not give them time to modify it."

"You are really treacherous!" Li Wenyuan also laughed, "You haven't told me yet, agree with my previous proposal, and put your new book on "Fantasy Age" to serialize?"

Previously, in order to repay the last favor of "Science Fiction World", Lin Han sent his short story "The Dao of Chao Wen", and the only remaining incense friendship was also exhausted.

The sales of "Science Fiction World" in May increased significantly due to this article, which seriously affected Lin Han's own stake in the magazine, so he was dragged by Li Wenyuan and Tan Lin for a drink and agreed to write a book specifically.

Now that a book can complete two tasks, what else is Lin Han dissatisfied with?

He quickly agreed, "What's the problem? After the news is announced there, you can let the Fantasy Age announce it. I'll communicate with the publisher myself, and when your serialization is in the middle, the entire book will be officially released!"

The palms and backs of hands are all flesh, and Lin Han doesn't want to favor magazines or publishing houses, so he came up with such a compromise solution.

Although Li Wenyuan does not serve as a manager within Fantasy Times Magazine, he is a big boss who has 80% of the shares after all, and he always pays attention to this aspect.

It is estimated that people across the country will be curious about what kind of books they can be sent to space.

If you want to answer this question, the best and most direct way is to buy a book called "Fantasy Age" and read it yourself!

"To be honest, have you decided what to write?" Li Wenyuan was most concerned about this. He thought about his new book for a long time but couldn't write it. Now Lin Han only has two weeks, which is really not great.

Lin Han is already confident, and he replied: "I have thought about it and I must have written novels related to space. The novel I want to write for the time being is the first in the "Space Odyssey" series, "2001: Space Odyssey"!"

Although Li Wenyuan guessed that Lin Han must have stocked up, he was still a little surprised after hearing the title of this book with time, "Why should I call it 2001? Does this time have any special meaning?"

"I won't spoil the spoilers for the time being. You'll know after you finish reading my novel. There are also sequels in this series, called "2010: Space Odyssey" and "2061: Space Odyssey" and "3001: Space Odyssey", which is a time series."

In fact, Lin Han had wanted to write this book for a long time, but he had never found a suitable opportunity. Now he is taking advantage of the request of the space center to launch this series of novels.

I believe that there is official publicity that this "Space Odyssey" series will have a wider readership in China than in the previous life!

These words completely aroused Li Wenyuan's curiosity. As a science fiction writer, he could see Lin Han's intentions from the title of the book, so now he couldn't help but urge him: "Then I won't bother you anymore. Write it quickly. You must show it after you finish writing. I'll count on it to spend the summer now!"

"Yes, after confirmation from the space center, I will give you a physical book. Maybe it's the brothers and sisters who have been to space."

Li Wenyuan didn't say anything more. After getting so many useful information, he hung up the phone. He wanted to give Lin Han more time to prepare a new book.

...

It is actually normal to choose to write "2001: A Space Odyssey". This book describes the story of the Earth's civilization from the ancient African apes millions of years ago to the journey to space.

When Lin Han was just approached science fiction novels, his physics teacher was one of the earliest science fiction enthusiasts. During class, he recommended this pinnacle work that cannot be surpassed in the world's science fiction palace, which is known as a complete description of the ultimate destination of human beings, and the original novel of Hollywood classic movies!

However, at that time, Lin Han was an ordinary high school student. After downloading the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" to the computer on the weekend, he felt that it was particularly over-reputable. The critics said it was particularly great, but they couldn't see it at all earlier.

For example, in the Taichu era in the first part of the original novel, the description of ancient apes is very rich, the simple basic psychological activities of ancient apes, the influence of mysterious stone slabs on ancient apes, how ancient apes take a small step towards humans, and even how ancient apes change their position in the food chain!

Among them is the relationship between the emergence of a language and human civilization, which Lin Han thought was very inspiring when he read it.

However, in the movie, there are a group of monkeys who start to be stupid but then go crazy. It is difficult for people who have not read the original work to understand what they are doing.

After all, this is a movie from the 1960s and 1970s. The picture quality, sound effects, soundtracks, and even the actors' performances, special effects, and the accents of the actors are a bit out of date, and some of the pictures appear repeatedly, making people unable to help but feel annoying!

After watching that movie, Lin Han sneered at the so-called original novel and dared not touch it.

It was only after I got to college that I changed my mind because he saw several books with similar titles in the library, from 2001, 2010 to 2061, 3001.

Looking at these similar titles, he always thought that they were fake books that someone imitated through movies and had no interest, but one day he couldn't help but lend them all to read them all, and then he realized that he almost missed the classic!

Clarke, the author of the tetralogy of "Space Odyssey", is a famous British science fiction novelist. He was rated as the poet laureate of the space age by the Los Angeles Times and is known as one of the three major science fiction novelists in the 20th century!

"2001: A Space Odyssey" is a work co-created by Clark and film director Stanley. It can be said that this novel was created for the script of the movie. Later, the novel also independently became a classic work in the history of science fiction novels.

While Stanley is making the movie of the same name, Clark is working hard to complete the last draft of the novel!

So in the spring of 1968, the movie was born a few months earlier than the novel. Many readers think that the novel explains too much, destroying the mystery of the movie, but Clark felt that the printed text should have shown more details than the movie.

Compared with novels, Lin Han prefers novels more. This does not mean that the movie is not well filmed, but that movies and novels are originally two different languages, and a lot of the information contained in the text cannot be presented by images!

As can be seen from the first novel, Clark probably did not intend to write the last three. The plot of the novel is slightly different from the movie, but it does not affect the overall situation.

However, starting from the later "2010: A Space Odyssey", the plot of the novel is different from the previous novel, but it is related to the plot of the movie.

This is probably because the movie is so famous that the author continues to write it along with the movie, but only some details do not affect the overall situation of the story!

Both novels and movies are great, and there are also many things that are hailed as God's prophecy, which largely reflects the awesomeness of "Space Odyssey".

The movies and novels were released and published in 1968. At that time, humans had not yet landed on the moon. However, just a few months later, the Americans landed on the moon. The Apollo astronauts had watched this movie and played "Blue Danube" in the spacecraft!

The space shuttle at the beginning of the movie did not exist at all in that era, let alone a space station.

Even the voiceprint login entering the space station was not realized until decades later!

The most surprising thing was that in 1970, Apollo 13 encountered an accident. The first sentence I reported to the mission center was, "Houston, we have a problem!"

This is almost exactly the same as the lines in the novel. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or because the astronauts were imitating it inadvertently.

In 1977, the American Voyager probe applied the technology envisioned in this book, and in 2013, it represented all mankind's formal flight out of the solar system and headed towards a new future!

When Voyager had not yet flew out of the solar system, it sent back the first pictures of Enceladus, which was almost exactly the same as the description in the novel. Many scientists were shocked by Clark's prediction!

However, if Lin Han writes these things, the outside world will definitely not say that this is a success prophecy, but will feel that this happens to be linked to history and facts, and it has more authenticity and sense of inclusion.

Many novels are like this, using specious writing techniques to make readers unable to tell whether it is a fictional or a real story, so that they can become more immersed in the story!

...

"Because of space roaming, the meaning of our looking up at the stars is different from that."

Since this is the first time in China to bring literary works into space, Lin Han thinks that the theme and content of space roaming are very suitable, but there is also a big problem!

The leaders of the space center definitely hope that Lin Han’s new book is based on domestic background, rather than foreigners. If this were placed in the past, it would definitely be labeled as politically incorrect.

But Lin Han is really afraid of some people's excessive interpretation. It obviously doesn't mean this, but it seems like you are doing reading comprehension. A serious color can analyze various different attitudes for you!

The reason why a big tree attracts wind is obvious. Many people are waiting to pick on Lin Han, wanting to watch him fall from the altar. If they can step on it a few times, they will be even happier.

So most of the time Lin Han writes about foreigners, at least tossing foreigners, so that he won’t think of his own people.

Many people joked that the movie version of "2001: A Space Odyssey" was to promote the novel version. Many people were unaware of it after watching the movie version, so they naturally bought a more detailed novel version to read it.

Now Lin Han cannot make the movie for the time being, there is only one novel version, which is quite good!

In fact, the story is very simple. The mysterious black stone slab enlightened the civilization of humans on Earth in the prehistoric era. Three million years later, humans discovered the same stone slab on the moon, and the stone slab immediately emitted electromagnetic signals in the direction of Saturn at the moment it was unearthed.

The United States sent the spacecraft Discovery to expedition to Saturn in an attempt to find out the truth. However, in space, the supercomputer Hal suddenly went crazy, killing three hibernating astronauts and turning Frank into a space drifter.

Only David Bowman escaped by chance. The surviving Bowman arrived at Saturn alone and found another larger black stone slab...

The whole story was reviewed in Lin Han's mind, but Lin Han did not start writing rashly. He began to hesitate. Is his approach really good?

This is a very, very pretentious thing, and it is very indecisive!

Lin Han himself felt very confused. He really wanted to make the first book on the space station based on foreigners, let alone the space center and the Central Propaganda Department want to be furious, and I am afraid that domestic readers and netizens will also have to fumbling.

If it is used by those who are interested, it is very likely to cause public opinion incidents. Even if the mass base is as strong as Stephen Chow, Stephen Chow, it will still be brought to the forum. Some celebrities and social public opinion in the Hong Kong entertainment industry have become the so-called "overturning Zhou incident"!

"This thing is not easy to touch."

Lin Han knocked on his temple, and he sighed in a low voice.

Water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. Previously, readers could accept novels written by foreign backgrounds, but they may not necessarily accept such works placed on Tiangong No. 2 and enjoy the high-standard treatment!

In fact, there are already signs now. When netizens were speculating about which book Lin Han could be taken to space, the books with the most mentioned times and the most support rate were all works with domestic backgrounds.

Now there are two ways in front of Lin Han. He decided to do a small investigation to see the netizens’ reactions. After all, the content is already there, and it doesn’t take much time to change the background or not!
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