Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

"Science Fiction World" magazine has two mailboxes, one of which is open to all authors, and the magazine usually uses this to receive manuscripts.

In addition, in order to prevent specially invited manuscripts from being mixed with other people's manuscripts, they also set up a relatively private account. Authors who often cooperate will send manuscripts to this mailbox if they have manuscripts, and Yu Dong's manuscripts will naturally go to Send it in this email.

After Yang Xiao and Tan Kai waited in the office for about half an hour, a new message finally arrived in the mailbox.

"Is it Yu Dong's?" Tan Kai asked eagerly.

"Let me take a look..." Yang Xiao manipulated the mouse to open the email, then raised his voice and said, "It's from Yu Dong."

"Download the manuscript quickly, and I'll get the card reader."

After the manuscript was downloaded, Tan Kai made a copy, and then went back to his office. He didn't plan to squeeze in front of a computer with Yang Xiao to read the manuscript, and there was a computer in his office.

After Tan Kai left, Yang Xiao opened the manuscript.

There are some information introductions at the front of the manuscript, including the name and word count of the novel.

The title of the novel uses a physics term, called "Gravity", and it has [-] words.

Yang Xiao subconsciously wanted to guess the plot of the novel through the title of the book, but she gave up anyway. Since it is Yu Dong's novel, just enjoy reading it.

The beginning of the novel is a dialogue without specifying the subject, but it is easy to guess the identities of the two parties by reading the content of the dialogue, one is an astronaut performing a mission in space, and the other is the staff of the ground command center.

Through the conversation, Yang Xiao also figured out that the astronaut was performing a simple and short mission.

Three months ago, China's space telescope "Sky Survey" had a small malfunction, so astronaut Zhou Tian and female scientist Shu Man boarded the "Dragon Girl" spacecraft to carry out the LN321 mission-to repair the survey telescope.

This was a very simple mission, and it didn't take them long, so that the staff of the ground command center joked with Zhou Tian that this short mission would not allow him to break the spacewalk record.

But when the two were out of the cabin to perform their mission, an accident happened. The United States launched a missile to destroy one of their abandoned satellites. The survey telescope crashed together.

Except for the two people who got out of the cabin, all other astronauts in the "Dragon Lady" died.

After the accident, Zhou Tian and Shu Man experienced a brief period of grief, and had to stabilize their emotions to search for the bodies of other astronauts, and then went to the International Space Station, intending to use the "Alliance" spacecraft there to evacuate.

As they approached the International Space Station, the two accidentally crashed into the station's solar panels and lost control.

At this time, the only connection between them and the space station is the rope wrapped around Shuman's ankle. In a crisis, Zhou Tian sacrificed himself to untie his own interception rope to save Shuman, and Shuman drove the alliance spacecraft to China. Tiangong space station.

On the way to the Tiangong space station, Shuman encountered a series of difficulties. Finally, just when she was about to give up, she saw Zhou Tian’s fantasy, and then cheered up, and finally boarded the Chinese space station and piloted the "Ao Bing" spacecraft Return to Earth.

Yang Xiao spent more than an hour reading the story, and when she put down the mouse, her heart was complicated.

Is this a good novel?The answer is yes.

This novel only has more than 4 words, the plot is ups and downs, and the rhythm is very fast. It mainly tells a series of stories about the accidents encountered by the astronaut Zhou Tian and the female scientist Shu Man during their missions. , The description of the helpless situation is very good.

In the fast-paced storyline, Yu Dong didn't add too many other introductions, but added a lot of camera descriptions. When Yang Xiao reads the novel, he will have a feeling of being on the scene, and the heart will emerge. A powerlessness and fear.

If Yang Xiao were to rate this novel, she would give it seven points.

Yang Xiao's scoring is relatively strict, and seven points is considered a high score for her.

But this novel is from Dongzhong, and seven points seems a bit mediocre.

In Yang Xiao's opinion, among Yu Dong's many science fiction novels, today's "Gravity" is definitely the most mediocre one. Although this novel has a fast pace and ups and downs, there is nothing particularly amazing about it.

Before Yang Xiao received Yu Dong's manuscript, whether it was "Second World" or "The Martian", or "Prison No. [-]", she would always feel surprised, but this time she didn't have such a feeling.

Sitting on the chair, Yang Xiao was silent for a while, and finally shook her head, thinking to herself, her demands on Dong are still too high, even the most powerful writer in the world cannot guarantee that every work is divine. It is acceptable to occasionally appear a less powerful work.

Besides, this novel probably only took a few days to write, and it is already very good to have such quality in such a fast speed.

Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, he went to invite Yu Dong to write a manuscript years ago, and Yu Dong was really embarrassed, so he rushed to write this novel.

After calming down, Yang Xiao watched "Gravity" again, and thought it was pretty good, after all, he received another seven-point masterpiece.

After a while, Tan Kai walked over with a smile, "President Yang, have you finished watching it?"

Tan Kai is old and has poor eyesight, so his reading speed is much slower than Yang Xiao's.

Yang Xiao said with a smile, "It's been a while since I read it, and I'm just waiting for you to come over. What do you think of this novel?"

"It's a very good novel. Yu Dong's ability to use words to present scenes is beyond the reach of ordinary authors. I dare say that if the same storyline is written by other authors, this novel will be much worse."

Yang Xiao nodded in approval. The plot of this novel is very simple, a complete one-line narration, and there are only two characters involved. However, Yu Dong's writing ability has added a lot to the original simple story, especially those who The description of the space scene feels like it can be seen.

"So, do you think there is anything remarkable about the plot of the story?"

"The plot is simple and the rhythm is fast. This is an advantage. The 4-odd characters read very smoothly. On the one hand, it benefits from Yu Dong's writing, and on the other hand, it is also because the plot is really fast. Except for the beginning, almost everything behind There is no blank space, and the opening part echoes the middle part."

"If you were asked to rate it, how much would you rate this novel?" Yang Xiao asked.

"If you have to give a score." Tan Kai thought for a while, and said, "[-] points, of course, this is a very subjective score. I roughly divided it just now, and I can divide this novel into six parts. Published in six issues."

"Isn't the sixth issue a bit long, or how about shortening it to four?"

"It can be shortened to four issues, but there will be one more manuscript for this issue."

"Let's do it towards the fourth issue. No matter what, we must put more in the first issue. The first part of the novel is foreshadowing, and this part of the content must be passed over."

"Well, why don't you tell Yu Dong about this?"

Yang Xiao nodded, "Let me call him."

The call was quickly connected. Yang Xiao first praised "Gravity", and then said with a smile, "I discussed with Lao Tan and planned to divide "Gravity" into four serials. Do you have any comments?"

Yu Dong smiled on the other end of the phone and said, "Since the novel has been handed over to you, I have no opinion on when it will be published or how many issues it will be serialized, but there is one thing I still want to tell you, so that you can learn more about it." prepare."

Yang Xiao wondered, "What's the matter? What are we going to prepare for?"

"The company is already preparing a film adaptation plan for this novel, and the temporary plan is to invite James Cameron to direct it."

"James Cameron, the director of "Titanic"?" Yang Xiao asked in surprise.

"Well, it's him."

Tan Kai next to him asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Yang Xiao covered the microphone and said to Tan Kai, "It is said that this novel will be adapted into a movie, and James Cameron will be asked to direct it."

"Then he..."

When Tan Kai was about to ask further questions, Yang Xiao had already let go of the hand covering the microphone and said, "This is a good thing, but it should be too early, after all, the novel has just been written, translation takes time, and writing the script It takes time."

Yu Dong smiled and said, "Quickly, I have already sent the novel for translation, and it should be out in half a month. In addition, I have already made a lot of annotations when I wrote the novel, so it is not difficult to write the script. In fact , the plot is relatively simple, and the script does not need any major changes at all.”

Yang Xiao knew that Yu Dong was right. The plot of this novel was relatively simple, and it was narrated in a single line. If it was adapted into a movie, it could follow the original story without any changes.

Moreover, Yu Dong also made a lot of annotations, which made the script easier to write.

Yang Xiao had read Yu Dong's annotations for "The Martian" before, and the annotations were very detailed, completely at the nanny level.

"Then when will this movie be shot? Will James Cameron agree to direct it?"

"It will probably take at least half a year to shoot, but we will know whether James Cameron will direct the film in a month at the latest. And even if he doesn't direct, there are other directors to choose from, and they must be well-known directors , you can rest assured about this."

"In other words, news of the film and television adaptation of the novel will be announced in a month's time?"

"If the news is announced, it will probably take two months."

Yang Xiao nodded, "Okay, I understand, I will control the nodes."

……

After Yang Xiao hung up Yu Dong's phone, Tan Kai couldn't wait to ask, "How to say specifically?"

"It is said that the novel is being translated, and I plan to find James Cameron to direct it. The result will be known within a month. Even if he does not direct, he will invite other big directors to direct." Simply told Tan Kai about the matter , Yang Xiao said with emotion, "I just said that when I read novels, I always feel that something is wrong, and now I know."

Tan Kai asked suspiciously, "What do you know, what's wrong?"

"The movie, this novel was born for the movie. If the scenes described in the novel can be realized through shooting, it must be a very good movie."

"Well, you should be right. That's why they found James Cameron. This is a director who attaches great importance to visual effects."

Yang Xiao tapped the table with his fingers, "I also thought of one more thing. IMAX, which is jointly invested by Deep Space Corporation and Lucas, will build China's first commercial IMAX theater in Yanjing this year. This is IMAX in China. It is the first shot in the film market, and they have developed rapidly in other countries. I am thinking, at this time, Yu Dong wrote such a novel and was so eager to adapt it into a movie. Is it also necessary to cooperate with IMAX? The movie is very likely It will be produced in IMAX format to meet the audience."

Tan Kai nodded, "It is indeed possible, this is like the style of Deep Space Corporation, if the movie "Gravity" is made into IMAX and becomes commercially successful, it will definitely attract more theater attention IMAX."

Yang Xiao smiled and said, "Haha, this is also a good thing for us. If it is finally confirmed that the movie will be directed by James Cameron, the popularity of this novel will be very high. Let's put the novel in six issues. Come to serialize, but the first issue still has 1 words, and the remaining 6000 words are divided into five issues, with an average of more than [-] words in one issue. It is too late to divide into four issues, although Yu Dong said two We can announce the news in a month, but we still have to reserve a little time for ourselves to be operable.”

Tan Kai agreed: "This is more reasonable, then we can promote the next issue of Yu Dong's new book now, and then we will cooperate with the second round of publicity when the Deep Space Company announces the news of the film adaptation." .”

"That's right, that's it. I'll post a post on the Deep Space Tribe in a while. In addition, you can also contact He Xi and the others to help forward it."

Tan Kai chuckled, "I still need to contact you. This guy is on the Internet every day, and he can see it whenever you post a new novel. If he sees that Yu Dong is about to post a new novel, he needs you to remind him. Repost it as soon as possible, and catch others to repost it."

"That's true. He Xi can be said to be Yu Dong's loyal supporter."

In fact, there is no need for Yang Xiao and the others to deliberately do publicity on the Internet. As long as they release the news that Yu Dong's new novel will appear in the next issue of "Science Fiction World", the news will spread quickly.

The influence of the word Yu Dong in the country is extraordinary, let alone in the deep space tribe. As long as it is related to Yu Dong, it will immediately become a hot topic. This is because the deep space official has not carried out any internal in case of operation.