Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 22 Chinese Language Major
Yu Dong invited Yang Xiao to the office. He carried the teapot for a long time and couldn't find any tea, so he could only pour her a cup of plain water.

"President Yang, the conditions are poor, so I can only ask you to do it."

"It's already good." Yang Xiao shook his head and looked around.

It's a group office with about a dozen positions, and there's no one else at the moment.Yu Dong's position, at first glance, is the position of a new teacher. It is more tidy than other positions, and nothing is placed.

"Your school seems to be holding a sports meeting today?"

"Yeah, it's over. Now the students and teachers are rushing to go home for the holidays, so there is no one in the office at the moment. This time, the National Day school has been put away for nine days, and there is time to go back there. "

Colleges and universities have always been more generous than the state in terms of holidays. As usual, although the state still implements single holidays, Jinyi has one and a half days off every week.

"I came to see you today, and I'm going to go home tomorrow. But we don't have any holidays, so we still have to work. You should know something about "Science Fiction World". It was very difficult in the past few years, but this year has finally improved. , how dare I delay." Speaking of "Science Fiction World", Yang Xiao's slightly tired eyes radiated a faint light.

Yu Dong nodded, understood what Yang Xiao said, and then comforted her: "President Yang, don't worry too much, I am optimistic about the future of "Science Fiction World", as the contacts at home and abroad become more and more More domestic readers will gradually change their views on science fiction.”

Yang Xiao didn't care too much about Dong's comfort, because she had heard too many words like this, and she thought that Yu Dong was just like everyone else, it was purely comfort.

But what she didn't know was that Yu Dong was not just as simple as comforting, he really believed it, because he had experienced the glory days of "Science Fiction World".

"Mr. Yu, I won't waste your time too much, let's get down to business." Yang Xiao adjusted his mood and said, "This time I came here for a very clear purpose, I just wanted to see "Second World". Full manuscript, only then can I decide whether to serialize it in "Science Fiction World". Everyone knows the situation of the magazine, we can't take too much risk."

Hearing that Yang Xiao wanted to read the full draft, Yu Dong said regretfully, "I'm sorry, President Yang, I have only written half of "Second World". If you want to read the full draft, I'm afraid you will be disappointed."

Hearing Yu Dong's words, Yang Xiao's eyelids jumped abruptly. She didn't expect that "Second World" was not finished yet.

But then she felt fortunate, fortunately she didn't make a rash decision, otherwise there would really be a problem.

"However, if you want to know the whole story, I can show you my outline." Yu Dong said.

Outline?
Yang Xiao felt that reading the outline was better than reading the part of the manuscript that Yu Dong had already written.

But she still nodded and said, "Okay, I'll look at the outline first."

"Then wait for me here for a while, the manuscripts are all in the dormitory, not far away, I'll fetch them." Yu Dong stood up and said.

Yang Xiao also stood up, "I'll go with you."

Yu Dong frowned, although he was a lot younger than Yang Xiao, but taking a woman to the dormitory, it is hard to say that it would not attract any rumors.

Schools are not really ivory towers.

"Is it inconvenient?" Yang Xiao keenly observed Yu Dong's expression and asked.

Yu Dong thought for a while, then shook his head magnanimously: "No, let's go over together."

After arriving at the dormitory, Yu Dong found out the manuscript and outline that had been written and gave it to Yang Xiao.

The manuscript of nearly 20 words has a total of more than 400 pages, and it is piled up in a thick stack.

Let's talk about Yu Dong's outline. He wrote more than 2 words and dozens of pages.

Yang Xiao was holding a heavy manuscript in his hand. For some reason, the heart that had been hanging in the air just now suddenly let go.

20 words sounds like a rather heavy number, but you can really feel the weight when you hold it in your hand.

Yang Xiao knew that he couldn't finish reading the remaining 10,000+ words in a short time, so he chose to read the outline first.

By the looks of it, more than an hour has passed.

Yu Dong's outline is very interesting. It is not a simple story introduction. There are also some very unique inspirations interspersed in the middle. It is a bit jumpy to read, so it took Yang Xiao so long.

After reading the entire outline, Yang Xiao let out a long breath.

"Mr. Yu, what major are you studying? I see that you have a lot of research on the Internet."

Yang Xiao's first reaction after reading the outline is this. Yu Dong is also very insightful about the development of the Internet. Although she doesn't understand many things in it, her years of work in science fiction literature have made her sensitive to science fiction. nerve.

She could understand the complete network world structure shown by Yu Dong in the story. There are many insights in this outline that reminded her of Clark's paper on the development of radio in those years, and there are many expectations.

Although it is not known whether these expectations will come true, it can definitely be seen that Yu Dong has done research in this area.

But Yu Dong's answer made her jaw drop.

"I studied Chinese at Yanjing Normal University before."

"Chinese major?"

Yang Xiao felt a strong psychological impact twice today because of Yu Dong. The first time was when he learned that Yu Dong was a young and handsome guy, and the second time was now-heard Yu Dong said that he majored in literature.

Can literature majors write science fiction?

Sure, but very little.

Throughout the history of science fiction literature, most well-known writers focused on natural sciences in their early years.

For example, Herbert George Wells, the author of The Time Machine, studied physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy at the Royal Academy of Sciences when he was young.

Asimov was an assistant professor of biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, Heinlein studied physics at the University of California and later an engineer at the Naval Aviation Laboratory in Philadelphia, and Arthur Clarke was a radar at the Royal Air Force Pilot, participated in the development of early warning radar defense system.

Besides, Zheng Wenguang, the most well-known science fiction writer in China, graduated from the Department of Astronomy.

but……

Yang Xiao thought of another person who brought science fiction literature into the electronic age, William Gibson, the author of "Neuromancer", who has a degree in literature.

Thinking about it this way, Yu Dong seems to have something in common with Gibson. Both of them have degrees in literature, and both of their works are related to the Internet.

However, it is obvious that William Gibson has not been as meticulous about the Internet as Yu Dong.

(End of this chapter)