Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 381 Ender's Game

Having said that, Zhang Zhong did not continue to pretend to be stupid, and said, "Dean Xu from the School of Philosophy of Jinling University, he did mention this matter when we were chatting. Listen to what you mean, this matter Is it officially on the agenda?"

"Well, if there are no accidents, it will be officially established at the beginning of the new year. The school will be located in our school. At that time, a separate area will be opened on the school side, and the teaching and life of the students will be in it." Liu Hong said.

"That's very good."

"Nanjing University recommended Mr. Zhang to be the dean of this joint college. This idea coincides with mine, so I came here to ask your personal wishes."

"I have no problem." Zhang Zhong didn't make any more detours, "I've made a contribution to my alma mater."

It might be that Zhang Zhong answered too simply. Liu Hong on the other end of the phone paused and said, "It's a good feeling. Then I will settle this matter with Jinling University. After it is settled here, maybe We need to trouble Mr. Zhang to come to the school, and we need to discuss the specific matters of the United College."

"Okay, then I'll wait for Principal Liu to inform you."

"Okay, I won't bother you anymore."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Zhong twitched the corners of his lips. Liu Hong still didn't treat him as one of his own, otherwise he wouldn't have said half of what he said.

It took Liu Hong such a long time to call, he must have his own concerns, or even difficulties.

But he didn't go into details, and it was impossible for Zhang Zhong to ask in detail. When the water fell in the future, the stone would definitely come out by itself.

He was about to draw a lottery just now, but was interrupted by Liu Hong. Zhang Zhong recalled the system and took out [-] points to draw a lottery.

[The lottery is being drawn. 】

[The lottery draw is complete, congratulations on winning "Ender's Game"]

Science fiction again?

What Zhang Chong didn't expect was that he won another copy of "Ender's Game" with [-] points.

He couldn't understand the lottery system more and more. It seemed that there was no difference between the items drawn with [-] points and [-] points.

Let's draw [-] points next time, it seems to be more cost-effective.

He thought this way, not because "Ender's Game" is bad, in fact, this book is very good, it has won the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award.

This book is also the turnaround of the author Card. Before "Ender's Game" came out, Card also wrote a lot of novels, but his past novels were mediocre, but his short stories performed well. Zhang Zhong remembers that before "Ender's Game", Card seems to have several short stories that were nominated for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award.

Card is also considered a frequent visitor to the Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards. For these two awards, he has been nominated more than 20 times and won five times in the end.

Among them, "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" of the Ender series won the "Hugo Award" and "Nebula Award" for two consecutive years, creating an unprecedented miracle in the history of science fiction.

In addition, there is another detail, which many people do not know, that is, before the novel "Ender's Game" won the Hugo Award, the short version of this book, which is Card's debut novel, won the Hugo Award. Award nominations, and even won Card a Campbell Award for Best New Author.

Zhang Chong has read eleven books in the Ender series, and the last one, "Shadows Live", had not been officially published when Zhang Zhong left the earth.

Speaking of "Ender's Game", many non-science fiction fans may also know it, after all, this book has been made into a movie.

Although the movie version has average reviews, many people who don't read science fiction know about this book, or at least know the name of this book.

In the novel, the earth is attacked by Zergs. The International Fleet believes that it is necessary to find talented children from all over the world, install monitors on the children, and send them to the International Fleet to train children under the conditions they think are qualified. The space station is trained so that humans can take the lead in the battle with the Zerg and have hope of survival.

In this way, this book looks like an ordinary novel about Zerg invasion, but in fact, unlike ordinary Zerg invasion novels, there are some different things in "Ender's Game", and these things It is also the existence that supports the novel to write a sequel.

The protagonist of this book, Ender, is just a child, and the book focuses on his psychological changes.

Especially in the final battle, Ander, who has a commanding genius, used the super tactical weapon of the equipment doctor in the training match to directly destroy the enemy's main planet and complete a genocide.

At that time, to Ender, this was just a simulation training, no different from every simulation training in the past, and the destroyed planets and races were just some cold data to him.

But what he didn't know was that in fact, his simulated battle had already commanded a real battle through the superluminal Ansible communication, and everything that happened in the simulated match also happened in reality.

Without knowing it, he completely destroyed the Zerg's Jupiter and all the Zerg queens. It was not until after the battle that he found out that he was used by the International Fleet, and they exterminated the entire Zerg by his hands.

Ender, who was only 11 years old, became an unprecedented mass murderer in this way, and his psychological burden can be imagined.

Some people don't understand Ender's psychological breakdown after the war. After all, from the beginning, their goal was to defeat the Zerg, and the result was the same.

But the Zerg are not bugs, they are actually advanced life forms, and Ender's behavior is no different from massacring civilians in war.The most important thing is that the Zergs don't seem to be too aggressive, and they don't have any unresolvable hatred with the earth, but there are some misunderstandings due to communication problems.

It is difficult for an ordinary adult to bear, let alone an 11-year-old child, to destroy a family like this.

And at the end of the novel, it can be regarded as the prologue of the subsequent sequel, which foreshadows the following story.

The part of this novel that is different from ordinary Zerg novels is the post-war part. How Ender conspired and how they knew the truth about the Zerg made this science fiction novel rise to a higher level in terms of the theme, and the discussion about war also attracted attention. People ponder.

Zhang Zhong went through the plot of "Ender's Game" in his mind, and then recalled the plot of "Voice of the Dead" later.

To be honest, it is really difficult to make "Ender's Game" into a movie, because if it is made into a movie, even if it is not cut, the final plot will not be too full.

If possible, it may be better to condense the first few books of the Ender series into one feature film.

(End of this chapter)