Back to 80: My literary life

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 just four nights.

The first reader is my girlfriend Song Tangtang.

In Fang Minghua's single dormitory, the girl read this novel carefully and raised her head with red eyes.

"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 insights into human nature. They have to write about society, the nation, and thoughts on science and human destiny."

"But Minghua, what you do will make some people unhappy." Song Tangtang's eyes showed a hint of worry.

"Do you think I'm afraid?" Fang Minghua held the girl's face and couldn't help but kiss her red lips gently, with a smile on his face.

"I said, in the worst case, if I don't do this editing job and go to Xiangjiang to write a book, I'll have to marry a chicken 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, if you are a monk for a day, you will hit the clock. Since I am still doing it now, I must do it well." Fang Minghua said.

"Okay then, where are you going to throw it?"

"Of course it's "Science and Literature" in Chengdu."

Chengdu, "Science and Literature" magazine office 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 1000 copies!

You know, just three years ago, the circulation of "Science and Literature" was as high as more than 20 copies!

What’s even 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!”

Survival is the first priority of the magazine.

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 150 million copies. Including the later comic book version, a total of 300 million copies were sold. This record has not yet been surpassed. break in.

Zheng Wenguang, Tong Enzheng, Liu Xingshi, and Xiao Jianheng, all well-known science fiction writers, have also published new works. Zheng Wenguang's "Flying to Sagittarius" and Tong Enzheng's "Death Light on the Coral Island" are both famous works in the history of science fiction.

Coupled with the rapid rise of Wang Xiaoda, Wei Yahua, etc., science fiction creation shows signs of prosperity.

But that 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") are now left with only "Wisdom Tree" and "Science and Literature" struggling .

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", and 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 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.

Just after reading a paragraph, Yang Xiao frowned slightly.

Is this a science fiction novel that he seriously reads?

This is obviously "scar literature"...

Describe the backwardness and ignorance of a small closed 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 Tan Kai 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 wanted to express the speculative theme of "human beings' joys and sorrows are not connected" through two parallel narrative lines (the interstellar war and Teacher Li's final farewell)?

Yes, this is 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, in the next room a family sings on the gramophone; opposite there are children playing with children. Upstairs there are two people laughing wildly; there is the sound of playing cards. There is a woman in a boat in the river crying for her dead mother. The sorrow of mankind Huan is not the same, I just think they are noisy. ——Lu Xun's "Ji Ji Ji·Xiao Miscellaneous Feelings"

Yang Xiao is very confident about this.

It's just... If this is the case, this science fiction novel can only be said to be interesting, but it is definitely not wonderful.

But when she saw it halfway through, the two narrative lines "suddenly" intersected!

how so!

He actually writes 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 members of the Carbon-based Federation:

"They have a certain type of individual, a certain number, distributed in every corner of this population. This type of individual acts as a medium for the transfer of knowledge between two generations of life forms."

"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 in the evolution history of galactic civilization, few people know about it."

"You mean the kind of individual that transfers knowledge between two generations of living beings?"

"They call them teachers."

This is the highest compliment to a teacher!

After Yang Xiao read it, he took a deep breath.

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? It's him? !

(End of this chapter)