Chapter 182 181 "A novel with a dual-line narrative structure?"
The story is not long, about 20,000 words, and Fang Minghua wrote it in only four nights.
The first reader is my girlfriend Song Tangtang.
In Fang Minghua’s single dormitory, the girl read this novel carefully, raised her head and her eyes were red.
“I really didn’t expect that you could write about the teaching profession as such a great thing, and that you could write about science fiction like this.”
"Science fiction is not just for children, nor is it just for popularizing science." Fang Minghua picked up a handkerchief and gently wiped the tears from the girl's eyes, and said seriously.
“Science fiction novels contain social criticism and insight into human nature. They want to write about society, the nation, and reflections on science and human destiny.”
“But Minghua, what you do is It will make some people unhappy." There was a hint of worry in Song Tangtang's eyes.
“Do you think I’m afraid?” Fang Minghua held the girl’s face and couldn’t help but kiss her gently on her red lips, with a smile on his face.
"I said, at worst, I won't do this job as an editor and go to Xiangjiang to write a book. You can marry a chicken or a dog or a dog."
After hearing this, Song Tangtang couldn't help but laugh: "You, you always give up your words, but in fact you are more practical than anyone else."
"As the saying goes, being a monk for a day will make you hit the clock. , since I am still doing it, I must do it well," Fang Minghua said.
"Okay then, where are you going to invest?"
"Of course it is "Science and Literature" in Chengdu"
Rongcheng, "Science and Literature" magazine on Renmin South Road .
Compared with the "Xingxing" poetry magazine in the same city, this place seemed particularly deserted. Yang Xiao, the editor-in-chief who had just taken office recently, was sitting in his office, looking at a report and frowning.
This is the circulation of the last issue of "Science and Literature", only 1,000 copies!
You know, just three years ago, the circulation of "Science and Literature" was as high as more than 200,000 copies!
What’s worse is that starting from this year, the Provincial Association for Science and Technology will no longer provide financial support to magazines. Magazines must “find their own way out, form their own cabinet, operate independently, and be responsible for their own profits and losses!”
Survive, this is the magazine’s top priority.
For this reason, Yang Xiao had to find ways to support the magazine: making children's literacy cards and developing children's story books, which turned out to be very popular and earned hundreds of thousands.
"Scientific Literature and Art" relies on this "use of vices to support good things", and its life is not too bad, but its main business is science fiction after all.
How much she misses the golden age of science fiction in the country.
That year, the country had just emerged from that special era. The chief designer reiterated that "science and technology are productive forces", breaking the ideological constraints and awakening the enthusiasm of scientific and technological workers.
The "Spring of Science" has arrived
Science fiction literature is ushering in the second climax in the history of New China. Ye Yonglie's "Little Smart Travels in the Future" was officially published and sold 1.5 million copies. Including the later comic book version, a total of 3 million copies were sold. This record has not yet been surpassed. break in.
Zheng Wenguang, Tong Enzheng, Liu Xingshi, and Xiao Jianheng, who have already become famous in science fiction, have also published new works. Zheng Wenguang's "Flying to Sagittarius" and Tong Enzheng's "Death Light on the Coral Island" are both famous in the history of science fiction. articles.
Coupled with the rapid rise of Wang Xiaoda, Wei Yahua, etc., science fiction creation shows signs of prosperity.
But it all came to an abrupt end last year.
The once popular "four journals and one newspaper" ("Science and Literature", "Science Fiction Ocean", "Wisdom Tree", "Science Times" and "Science Fiction Newspaper") now only have "Wisdom Tree" and "Science Fiction Newspaper". Science, Literature and Art” struggled.
What makes Yang Xiao even more heartbroken are those science fiction writers. Zheng Wenguang, a 54-year-old leading figure in Chinese science fiction literature, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and lost his creative ability. Ye Yonglie quit the science fiction world and turned to writing reportage. Tong Enzheng and Xiao Jianheng went abroad one after another. Other science fiction writers closed their books.
Without science fiction writers writing good works, even if there is a market, what is the use?
"It really corresponds to the sentence in "A Dream of Red Mansions", the white land is so clean"
Yang Xiao couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this.
At this moment, the office door was knocked open, and editor Tan Kai rushed in excitedly with a manuscript: "Editor Yang, take a look at this manuscript."
"What? Did you find a good manuscript?" Yang Xiao said with a smile.
"Yes, look." Yang Xiao took it and read: "Rural Teacher" and started reading it seriously.
Having just read a paragraph, Yang Xiao frowned slightly.
Has he read seriously? Is this a science fiction novel?
This is obviously "scar literature"...
Describes the backwardness and ignorance of a small isolated mountain village.
There are a lot of novels like this nowadays, and the writing is more profound than this.
If Yang Xiao hadn't seen Tankai like this, he wouldn't have planned to read it, which would be a waste of time.
But when she saw a change of writing, a cosmic war between two major civilizations on the light-year scale of the Milky Way appeared, she immediately realized that this was really a science fiction novel.
"A novel with a dual-line narrative structure?"
A term immediately appeared in Yang Xiao's mind.
The same theme is presented through two narrative lines. Even if the two narrative lines intersect by chance, it is only a physical intersection at the spatial level, and there is still no internal connection in the plot.
Could it be that the author wants to express the speculative theme of "human beings' joys and sorrows are not connected" through two parallel narrative lines (interstellar war and Teacher Li's deathbed farewell)?
Yes, that’s it!
Because Lu Xun is also mentioned in the book.
Yang Xiao has read many of Lu Xun’s novels and essays and is very familiar with them.
“Downstairs a man is dying of illness, and in the next room a family sings on the gramophone; opposite is playing with children. Upstairs there are two people laughing wildly; there is also the sound of playing cards. There is a woman on a boat in the river crying that she is dead Mother. The joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same. I just feel that they are noisy. ——Lu Xun's "The Collection of Miscellaneous Feelings"
Yang Xiao is very confident about this.
It's just... This is true. This science fiction novel can only be said to be interesting, but it is definitely not exciting.
But when she saw it halfway through, the two narrative lines "suddenly" intersected!
How could this happen!
Writing like this!
Yang Xiao was shocked by the author's sudden writing style!
His students (who most likely had no possibility of further education) eventually used the knowledge he taught to save mankind and the earth.
In the darkness of ignorance, that little flame of hope finally illuminates the darkness of the whole world!
She no longer cared about analyzing the structure of the article, but was shocked by the text in the second half.
Especially when I saw the conversation between the supreme ruler and the members of the Carbon-based Federation:
“They have a certain type of individuals, and they are distributed in every corner of this population. Such individuals act as a medium for the transfer of knowledge between two generations of living beings."
"Sounds like a myth."
"No," the senator said: "In the ancient times of galactic civilization, this concept did exist, but even then it was extremely rare. Except for those of us who are professional researchers on the evolutionary history of galactic civilization, few people know about it."< br>
“You mean the kind of individuals who transfer knowledge between two generations of living beings?”
“They are called teachers.”
This is the highest compliment to teachers!
After reading it, Yang Xiao took a breath of cold air.
This is one of the best science fiction novels I have seen in the past two years.
"Who is the author?" Yang Xiao asked eagerly.
"Minghua, Fang Minghua, deputy editor-in-chief of "Yanhe" magazine." Tan Kai replied.
What? Is it him? !
(End of this chapter)