Chapter 281 The End of Science Fiction Literature
Baker's Beach, located in the Presidio, San Francisco.
Looking around, you can see the magnificent scenery of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands and the Pacific Ocean, and of course, there are also beautiful silhouettes.
The blonde beauty in a swimsuit stepped in the sea with her bare feet, leaving footprints on the wet sand.
The sea is rough, and people are also rough.
Bai Ruoxue, Wang Anyi and others dressed relatively conservatively, but they could not hide their healthy figures.
Of course, the most eye-catching thing is Li Zhi, wearing a hot red swimsuit and bright lipstick, like a ripe cherry in midsummer.
The girls were playing and playing in the shallow water, with crisp laughter coming one after another.
Fang Yan was shirtless, with the soles of his feet soaked in the sea water, facing the sea breeze, absentmindedly, with thousands of thoughts swirling in his mind.
Suddenly, a stream of cold water was poured on his face.
"Okay, okay, please stop bullying Teacher Fang." Li Zhi shook her head and laughed when she saw Wang Anyi, Bai Ruoxue and others launching a collective attack on Fang Yan.
Fang Yan was soaked like a drowned rat and wiped his face, "You don't have martial ethics, how dare you play sneak attacks! Look at me!"
"Yanzi, let me help you ! ”
Seeing Pan Yaoming helping out, Li Zhi also joined in the fun: "Teacher Fang, I'm here to help you too."
Suddenly water splashed, and everyone splashed water on others without any scruples. Cool to the core.
After playing for a while, Fang Yan returned to the shore and saw Li Zhi enthusiastically handing over a white towel.
“Thank you.”
“Teacher Fang, are you thinking about a new book plan?”
“Why do you think so?”
“ I don’t think anything else should worry you so much.”
"I have to say, I really kept you guessing."
Fang Yan looked at the enchanting Li Zhi on the left and the pure and beautiful Bai Ruoxue on the right, and asked what they thought.
"Teacher Fang is testing us."
Bai Ruoxue and Li Zhi looked at each other.
Li Zhi was the first to stand up and said that she knew very little about literature, so she just took it as an introduction.
Fang Yan listened patiently. Her suggestions, like Mike's, were also based on science fiction literature.
The reason is both simple and convincing. In the highly commercialized literature market in Europe and the United States, science fiction novels are popular, while suspense novels are unpopular.
The former has backgrounds such as the "Space Race", "Star Wars", and "Apollo Manned Moon Landing", as well as Hollywood movies such as the "Star Wars" trilogy and "2001: A Space Odyssey" Thanks to publicity and support, the entire science fiction literature market is booming, with masterpieces appearing frequently.
The latter has declined in the European and American markets, and has long passed the golden age of suspense crime novels.
“Teacher Fang, I don’t recommend you write science fiction novels.”
Bai Ruoxue thought about it again and again before speaking out.
“Why, science fiction literature is also popular in China?”
Fang Yan was curious.
As the editor of "October", I will naturally pay close attention to the trends and trends of Chinese literature. Since 1978, science fiction can be said to be the first category in popular literature to revive and even prosper. "Science Fiction" Ten science fiction publications, including "Ocean" and "Science and Literature", were founded one after another.
Old writers have resumed their creations, and new writers are constantly emerging. It is like a golden age of Chinese science fiction literature.
For example, Ye Yonglie's "Little Smart Travels in the Future" is a best-selling novel with a sales volume of 3 million copies.
Actually, even if Lizhi and Mike didn't say it, they are more inclined to science fiction. "The Three-Body Problem", "The Matrix", "The Truman Show" and "The Wandering Earth" have already come to mind. , "Interstellar" and a series of science fiction works.
"Teacher Fang, you also know that I have been corresponding with my grandfather during the time I came to the United States."
Bai Ruoxue said softly that there was a big incident in the domestic literary world.
Fang Yan realized that this topic was very sensitive, "Ruoxue, let's go there and take a stroll."
........."Hua Hua Hua."
The waves wash away the shells on the beach.
Fang Yan said nothing, listening to Bai Ruoxue's story while walking, and got a general understanding of "spiritual pollution".
During this turmoil, science fiction literature was characterized as "pseudoscience" and suffered a direct blow.
The publishing management agency has issued multiple bans on the publication of science fiction novels, and related magazines have also begun to undergo rectification.
For a time, all science fiction publishing houses were in turmoil and remained silent, which meant that the golden age of Chinese science fiction came to an abrupt end.
No wonder in an era when global science fiction literature is making rapid progress, Chinese science fiction novels cannot make any waves. The root of love lies here!
"Science fiction" has become a forbidden area for Chinese literature, and science fiction literature has lost the soil for its growth.
It was not until the rise of a new generation of science fiction writers such as Liu Cixin that Chinese science fiction literature ushered in its second revival.
But that was already the 21st century, and we were more than ten years behind others.
"Teacher Fang, my grandfather said that there are more and more criticisms of science fiction novels."
Bai Ruoxue said: "Even if your science fiction novel is the same as "Saving Private Ryan", in Published in the United States, it is also very sensitive."
"Ruoxue, thank you for the reminder."
Fang Yan frowned and stood there.
Bai Ruoxue felt the solemn atmosphere and tried to ease it: "Speaking of which, Teacher Fang, you just said that you would write suspense, science fiction, and horror novels. It's really surprising. I didn't expect you to write about these themes!"< br>
"I also want to give it a try. After all, popular literature is what the people like to hear and see." Fang Yan said: "If we can develop one more genre, Chinese literature It’s just more prosperity.”
“Teacher Fang, I think you should write about suspense and horror.” Bai Ruoxue suggested: “Yoko and Yui told me that this type of writing is popular in Japan now. But it’s hot.”
“Well, think about it again, think about it more.”
Fang Yan looked at the sea, and the sea gradually returned to calm, but his heart could not calm down.
Although the bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish, but do you want to brave this storm?
…………
The new book project was quickly suppressed temporarily.
Dialect had to make final revisions and improvements to the final draft of "Guns, Viruses and Steel". Bai Ruoxue and Mike also began to diligently translate the script of "Saving Private Ryan". The entire trio , working very happily in the foundation's office.
When Li Zhi came to work, she could see them talking about it every time.
Occasionally, I will work with Pan Yaoming to correct typos in dialects.
Looking at his handwritten manuscript and listening to his glorious deeds at the University of Iowa, the other teacher’s understanding deepened.
Time passes quietly like this.
By the end of July, the final draft was sent to the University of Iowa, and the translation of the script was completed. Dialect asked Li Zhi to book a flight back to Xiangjiang for them, ending the international writing plan ahead of schedule.
Before leaving the United States, Mike served as a guide and went shopping with dialect and Bai Ruoxue.
Especially when buying an electrical appliance, Bai Ruoxue naturally bought an IBM computer, while Fang Yan chose an air conditioner.
At this time, I am ordering and paying from abroad, and after returning home, I will pick up the goods at the special counter of Yanjing Friendship Store.
In addition, Fang Yan also bought gifts and souvenirs for Yang Xia, Fang Hong, Zhang Guangnian and others.
Then, on July 31st, we returned home with a full load.
The plane took off and flew above the clouds. San Francisco was below. Another layer of clouds rose and the white clouds engulfed the United States.
I read "The Maltese Black Hawk" in dialect, which is a representative work of American tough guy suspense novels. After turning a few pages, I became uninterested.
North America seems to like tough-guy detectives rather than easy-chair detectives. As for the UK, it has been a long time since a famous detective came out to inherit the mantle of Conan Doyle and Agatha Creedy.
Sure enough, adhering to the Ten Commandments of Reasoning severely limits creative thinking!
At this point, a new idea suddenly popped up. Is it possible to combine science fiction, suspense and horror?
Trinity! Isn’t it very bold!
(End of this chapter)