Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 4 Future World
When Yu Dong returned to the yard of the staff dormitory, there were not many rooms in the whole building that were still lit. There were no social networks and short video apps in this era, and everyone generally went to bed early.

In the yard, insects and frogs roared one after another, and the wind at night had a sense of autumn, and it invaded with coolness.Yu Dong closed the collar of his shirt and quickly returned to his single room.

After returning, Yu Dongsheng was afraid of disturbing other people, so he carefully took some water from the well and took a shower.

The cold well water washed away the drowsiness he had accumulated, and the whole person became shaken.

Neither sleepy nor in a hurry to sleep, he simply took out a pile of crumpled newspapers from his bag.

This is a copy of "Yangzi Evening News" that he bought after leaving the train station during the day. During the day, one thing after another, he didn't take time to read it.

With the dim light, Yu Dong read the newspaper in his hand.The smell of the ink mixed with the grassy smell of the paper, and the typeface was printed on it, as if it had grown hair. Although it was rough, it became more vivid, as if the small words were about to jump out of the paper in the next moment.

Just after reading a few paragraphs, Yu Dong's brows furrowed.

This is very different from the "Yangtze Evening News" in his impression. As the official newspaper of Jinling, it generally reports current affairs news and policy hotspots. The headlines are always serious, and the articles are usually irregular.

But the newspaper in hand is full of market news and gossip.

A certain house in a certain village in a certain city in a certain province raised a certain pig and gave birth to an elephant.

A certain mountain, a certain forest, a certain village, and a certain man married a wife.

A certain household in a certain year, a certain month, a certain day...

The whole strange news is mostly.

Turning to the last page, the large page turned into a piece of tofu, with a lot of personal information written on it, some asking for a spouse, some asking for a pen pal, some advertising, just like a social section.

Yu Dong was full of questions, turned the newspaper to the front page, carefully read the title of the newspaper, and then laughed out loud.

It turned out that what he bought was not the "Yangzi Evening News", but the "Yangzi Evening News". The difference between the two is a thousand miles away.

It seems that some "smart" businessman got twins in order to gain the popularity of "Yangtze Evening News".

However, although the businessman's intentions were impure, Yu Dong felt that the sales of this newspaper should be good.Because the news written in it is like a strange novel, but it can arouse people's curiosity.

He flipped the page again, and when he reached the middle, Yu Dong suddenly narrowed his eyes and stopped at a certain page in the middle.

"The 1991 Annual Meeting of the World Science Fiction Association ended successfully in Rongcheng!"

Yu Dong felt a little strange. He only heard about the sci-fi annual meeting from Qu Aiguo before, but he didn't expect to see it again now.

The annual meeting of the World Science Fiction Association was held in Rongcheng, hosted by the China Science Fiction Association and undertaken by the "Science Literature and Art" magazine.

"Science Literature and Art" won the best journal of the World Science Fiction Association.

At the same time, "Science Literature and Art" also presented this year's Galaxy Award, and the winning work was "Space Monastery" by Tan Li and Tan Bai.

Tan Li, Yu Dong did not know.Qin Bai is an acquaintance.

Tan Bai is the pseudonym of Tan Kai, the editor-in-chief of "Science Fiction World", and Yu Dong had a relationship with him in his previous life.Thinking of this, Yu Dong found it in the news, and finally let him find it.

"At this conference, Science Fiction Literature and Art also officially revealed their new title - Science Fiction World."

The world of science fiction, these four words are the white moonlight in the hearts of countless Chinese science fiction fans, and they are also the hallmark publications in the hearts of Chinese science fiction literature writers.

If we want to talk about Chinese science fiction, we can't avoid this magazine, and we can't avoid the Galaxy Award.

Don't look at the news that Chinese science fiction is hot, but in fact these few years have been the trough of Chinese science fiction.

In the 80s, a wave of ideological critiques sprang up in China, pointing directly at sci-fi literature, which directly caused the collapse of the Chinese sci-fi tower that had just exposed its sharp corners. The sci-fi magazines that had sprung up before were destroyed one by one. The "single seedling" of "Science Fiction World" is left.

And "Science Fiction World" had a hard time. Because of the "spiritual pollution" incident, the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology made the magazine itself take care of its own profits and losses. It is said that in order to make the magazine run smoothly, Tan Kai even secretly made a non-ferrous publication to make money to subsidize "Science Fiction". world".

This situation did not improve until the mid-90s.

"It's not easy."

Yu Dong sighed, put the newspaper together on the table, and stroked the folds on the newspaper with his palm over and over again, as if he wanted to smooth out the ups and downs experienced by Chinese science fiction.

But he knew that even if he smoothed the newspaper, the status quo of Chinese science fiction would not change.

So he closed the newspaper gently, and took out the writing pad and pen from his bag.

He has a brain full of sci-fi materials, and he has what he has seen and heard beyond this era. He heard about the sci-fi conference twice in the same day, and he always felt that he was destined to take up paper and pen to do it Issues.

The students of the Chinese Department do not learn how to write novels, but the students of the Chinese Department have a unique advantage in writing novels. When Yu Dong has something in his mind, he can quickly reflect it on paper and ink. between.

In just an hour, Yu Dong listed the outline of the story.

This is a very old-fashioned story in the eyes of later generations. The story is about an ordinary Huaxia student who accidentally met a group of people with special abilities. Discovering the world is nothing but a game, and most of them are nothing but a bunch of data.

It turns out that the real world has gone through a great war and is already on the verge of destruction, with material scarcity and radiation everywhere, and the space in which humans can survive is rapidly shrinking.

In order to reduce human activities, the government has designed a game, hoping that people can live a "normal" life in the game.

The protagonist is actually a human born in the end of the world. He was forced to enter the game when he was a baby. In reality, he is a lump of meat that can't walk. He lives on the nutrient solution distributed by the government every day.

And those with special abilities are just bugs in the system.

The protagonist has been searching for the truth all his life, but when he discovers the truth, his world collapses.

It's a bit like the later movies "The Matrix" and "The Truman World", and it seems to be born out of the novel "Neuromancer", but Yu Dong carefully interspersed the "imagination" of the future world in it, so that the story is full stand up.

Many science fiction writers spend their whole lives thinking about creating a perfect world, but Yu Dong has an innate advantage because he has one more world than others—the world 30 years later.

(End of this chapter)