Chapter 379 Is this science fiction?

Chapter 379 Is this science fiction?

Chapter 379 Is this science fiction?

President Jian, who was about to turn off the news, suddenly saw a bad development.

The update comes from a big fan of a certain celebrity.

According to the big data push, if it weren’t for “Gu Lu”, President Jian would not have been able to get it.

Yi Xin Ai Lin Fei Fei: "I'm really impressed. Gu Lu is the only writer, right? Why does he buy trending searches every day? Writers should just focus on writing and stop jumping around. In the past two or three months, he's been on the trending searches every month. Is he worthy?"

Lin Feifei is a traffic star in a parallel world. His real name is Lin Xia. Because of his character who likes to talk nonsense, his fans call him Lin Feifei. President Jian is clear about this information, because Modu Publishing House has also cooperated with many traffic stars. Sincerely, it always feels very absurd for a traffic star with a low academic degree to recommend famous works such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Veil". Anyway, President Jian would feel absurd.

There are a lot of popular science below. However, this big fan is not unfamiliar, and there is a fundamental difference between him and the post-millennials who saw Bilibili at the beginning.

President Jian guessed that it might be because Xiao Gu’s popularity stole the limelight from the traffic stars.

A certain netizen's reply killed the game——

"You want to ask me if Gu Lu is worthy? Then I can only answer you: Is the gold content of the God of Employment comparable to that of a star? The three basic sets of jobs for graduates and laid-off workers: express delivery, food delivery, and driving for Didi. There are two industries predicted by Gu Lu, and even originated by them. Don't think I am flattering, I have pictures and facts. Don't say that he is on the hot search once a month, it is reasonable for him to be on the hot search every day. But can Master Gu Lu comment on the riders trapped in the system?"

Pictures speak louder than words, this is an interview with the person in charge of Didi and Meituan Waimai. "Literary works are still helpful to technology to a certain extent. The one-click alarm in "2023" warns the safety of online ride-hailing, so it also makes us pay special attention." "Riders, takeaway merchants, platforms, we only provide a shopping platform, it is impossible to gain the maximum benefit. Teacher Xiao Gu's work made a wrong prediction in this regard."

The former was an exclusive interview with China Finance, and the latter was a press interview at the Wuzhen Internet Industry Conference.

"No wonder he has such strong writing skills. His thinking on science and technology is beyond most people." President Jian sighed. He used to scoff at the academic argument of relying on creation because it was not scientific or logical. Now think about it, he is a genius.

Very good, the boomerang hit him in the face. Netizens realized that Gu Lu not only predicted the development of technology, but also warned of the dangers. The safety issues of online ride-hailing and the platform's exploitation of merchants and riders.

The topic has completely gone off track. Netizens started to tag the person in charge who was hit by the boomerang, but the latter did not respond at all.

In the end, nothing happened. The popularity was limited. It's true. Things that should be on the hot search list are not popular. Things that shouldn't be on the hot search list are on the top in a blink of an eye.

"Email - cough cough." President Jian saw that it was an email about Gu Lu's new book. Fortunately, his wife had fallen asleep.

The opening is an introduction:
[Mistaking hell for paradise!
Cruelty is an inescapable human nature.

Welcome to the sickly beautiful Suokou Hill a thousand years later——

"A new order can only be born after countless blood is shed."]
People don’t read the introduction of physical books. The cover and the waistband can arouse readers’ desire to buy. However, as a person working in the publishing industry, President Jian still has certain expectations for the introduction.

But what a strange introduction. Thousands of years later... that should be a work that exudes imagination of the future like "A Space Odyssey". But the time span is not that long.

Speaking of which, is it Suokou Hill again? If President Jian remembered correctly, this place had appeared many times in Xiao Gu's works.

Chongqing Iron and Steel Family Building, where the tourist attraction "No. 8 Middle School Building" is located. President Jian also knows something that others don't know. When Gu Lu was in junior high school, he actually lived in Building 4. In other words, little Gu really took a shortcut and walked through the corridor to go to school.

Don't think about it anymore. You can't tell what the content is from the introduction. President Jian calmed down and started to look at the work.

[Some late nights, when everything around me has quieted down, I would sit heavily in a chair, close my eyes and watch.

What comes before my eyes is always the same scene, every time.

In the darkness of the temple, the flames burning on the Goma altar, accompanied by the sound of fire from the ground...]
President Jian sighed slightly. He had read the Chinese manuscript of Suspect X's Devotion. The writing style of the two consecutive novels was only average, not popular literature as long as it could express the plot. Among Gu Lu's several novels, Mr. Holmes was the most fluent.

He thought so, but when President Jian finished reading the first chapter, he was completely stunned.

I am "Chu Xun Ge, born in the No. 6 Divine Residence Area of ​​Suokou Hill", a work narrated from a female perspective.

The beginning seems to be that an old system has produced very serious consequences, so Chu Xun Ge seems to want to record it to prevent the same thing from happening again in the future.

What stunned the well-informed President Jian was definitely not a female perspective or something. It is normal for writers to use the perspective of animals for narrative purposes.

The real reason is that this opening doesn’t feel like science fiction at all, and it can even be said that it is not even soft science fiction. For example, in the first chapter, Chu Xunge’s father is introduced as the leader of the No. 6 Shenqi District, the highest leader of a certain area.

Then a description of the area was given: The Sixth Kamisaki District consists of seven townships scattered over an area of ​​about 1,000 square kilometers. The boundary between the outside world and Kamisaki is the Three Gourds. Considering that even the Three Gourds may no longer exist in the world a thousand years later, I will explain it here. The Three Gourds are also called "willow ropes". Three gives birth to all things. Three is a general term. Countless wind chimes and gourds are hung on the vines made of willow branches. It is a solid roadblock to prevent evil things from the outside world from invading Kamisaki District. Children are repeatedly warned not to run outside the Three Gourds. Demons and monsters are wandering around in the outside world. If children go out alone, they will encounter terrible things.

Isn't this related to the legend of gods, ghosts and monsters? Besides, willow branches, gourds and wind chimes are all props for exorcising evil spirits in China.

There are monsters such as transformed rats, cat demons, balloon dogs, evil spirits, karma demons, etc. The article even clearly points out that transformed rats do exist, and that they obey humans and help them with civil engineering construction.

In the words of Chu Xun Ge's father, turning into rats is despicable. They treat adults with "cursed power" as gods, and are very dangerous to children who have not yet awakened their cursed power.

To be honest, if it weren't for the name Gu Lu, the manuscript would have been at risk of being rejected if submitted to Modu Publishing House!
The worldview presented at the beginning is too confusing, and even separates words to describe the stories of "evil ghosts" and "karma demons" in the textbooks of that world.

The former will follow anyone who accidentally walks out of the Three Gourds back to the village and start a massacre, while the latter will corrupt all living things living around it, which is similar to a nuclear bomb.

What on earth does Xiao Gu want to write? !

President Jian read it twice and found new information. The first is that the world a thousand years later seems to be very backward in technology, and even the basic power supply cannot be guaranteed.

What is the background of the world? If it is true that a thousand years have passed as described in the introduction, even if there was a world-destroying war, technology should have developed again. President Jian was confused.

"Why is the area called the God's Habitat? What kind of gods live there?" This is another piece of information discovered by President Jian. He believes that Gu Lu's work cannot be named randomly.

President Jian couldn't sleep well. He sent a message to Xiao Gu: "Xiao Gu, is the new work fantasy with a bit of supernatural elements? After all, there are settings of evil spirits and demons."

President Jian couldn't sleep tonight because Gu Lu fell asleep and didn't have time to reply to the message.

Fortunately, Gu Lu replied to the WeChat message around seven o'clock the next day.

[Xiao Gu: No, the new work is a science fiction novel. And compared to Flowers for Algernon, it is more of a hard science fiction.]
President Jian recognized all the text in the other party's reply when they were separated individually, but when they were put together, he felt he didn't recognize them.

Still prefer hard science fiction? President Jian's face with dark circles under his eyes was more confused, just like he was more sleepy.

[Jane: Today is not April Fools' Day, right? Are these manuscripts sent correctly?

Xiao Gu: Of course I didn’t send it to the wrong person. And as for the manuscript, Uncle Jian, when have I ever made a joke?]
OK! After more than 20 years in the industry, this is the first time that President Jian feels that he has no idea about a work.

What is hard science fiction? It is science fiction based on "hard sciences" such as physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, psychology, and sociology.

So what is soft science fiction? It can be directly understood as a brain hole article, a work created based on a scientific brain hole. For example, Flowers for Algernon was written based on the experimental brain hole of IQ becoming smarter, and there are errors in medicine and psychology, such as the deer is too instrumental, which is very different from ordinary schizophrenia and intellectual disabilities.

"You got up so early today?" Aunt Fang got up to make breakfast and saw her husband sitting in the study. She was used to it because President Jian would get up at around 6:30 in the morning during his busiest time to hold a half-hour conference call at home before going to work.

Strictly speaking, among the people Gu Lu knows, only Xiao Xue, the former master of internal competition, can compete with him.

"Oh yes, there are some problems with the manuscript that Xiao... Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang reviewed yesterday. I'll get up early and take a look." President Jian replied.

"We're having oatmeal and eggs today," Aunt Fang said, "We're going to lower your blood sugar."

After saying this, Aunt Fang walked into the kitchen and started to get busy.

President Jian looked down at WeChat and wanted to ask what the work was like. Even if it was a first draft and would be revised later, it was hard to understand. It would be bad to ask again, so after thinking for a long time, he sent a message: "I look forward to the complete work."

Of course I am looking forward to it. If it weren't for the two words "Gu Lu", President Jian would have considered this a failed work.

Gu Lu was not joking. If half of the readers think George Orwell's "1984" is hard science fiction and half of the readers think it is soft science fiction, then "Brave New World" is recognized by most people as hard science fiction. As explained above, the work has made an in-depth exploration of sociology. "From the New World" is similar to "Brave New World" in a sense, except that the setting is more fantastical and it also makes an in-depth exploration of sociology.

"Are you looking forward to it?" Gu Lu smiled. He felt that Uncle Jian was not sincere. Because he couldn't finish reading it the first time he watched it!

(End of this chapter)