Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 460 Long Novella

"Ms. Li, Mr. Feng, do you think the short video just now is a signal? From the short video, we can see that there is very little information about Zhang Zhong. Does it mean that this shows the attitude of the Nebula Award?" Hu Gang said solemnly Dao said, now Zhang Chonghuo's failure to win an award is no longer a matter of him alone. Tens of millions of people and readers in Huaxia are all paying attention to this matter.

Li Qin first said, "We can't draw conclusions yet. In fact, the award ceremony of the Nebula Awards before was much simpler than the current one. If we follow the previous process, the awards have already been awarded."

Feng He also said, "Well, it's hard to say, it may be that the Nebula Award is intentional, and I don't want the audience to guess who the winner is in advance."

"What does Teacher Feng mean to say, it's a good thing that Zhang Chong doesn't show up much in the short film?"

"That's not what I meant. It's just that everything hasn't been settled yet, so let's stop guessing. Anyway, the official awards ceremony will be next, and the answer will be revealed soon. Whether the Nebula Award is a bluff or a blatant one, we will see for ourselves in a while .”

At this moment, at the scene of the award ceremony, Zhang Zhong smiled at the camera when he saw the red light facing him.

Regardless of what others thought, he really didn't feel anything.

After the short film was released, the award presentation officially began. The first award of this award was the Excellent Screenplay Award. Standing on the award podium was Thomas, the president of the American Science Fiction Association.

"There were many excellent film and television scripts last year, let's take a look at the big screen first..."

The Screenplay Award, as the name suggests, is naturally an award for scripts, and the shortlisted are all popular movies from last year.

The final award went to the script of the science fiction film "Helicopter 47".

In fact, the script award is also the least significant award among the Nebula Awards, so everyone didn't pay much attention to it. After the script award was awarded, it was the short story award's turn.

When the award for short stories began, the three people in the live broadcast room sat up straight.

"There are six short stories shortlisted this time, namely "Dust and Sand", "Lost Red Star", "Thinking Fleas", "Sharp Hair", "Big Curtain", and Zhang Zhong's "Wandering Sea Ball" For our Chinese audience, the other five science fiction novels may feel a little strange to them, but these five short stories are all science fiction novels that performed well in the United States last year, and their authors are also well-known writers." Hu Just fulfilling the duties of the host, I briefly talked about the information of the shortlisted works.

After he finished speaking, Li Qin took over the topic, "Short science fiction novels are hardly well-known, not only are readers in our country rarely read these books, even readers in the United States may also know less about them. In terms of popularity alone, one "Wandering Sea Ball" is enough to crush the other five."

"Mr. Li, do you think we can keep this award? After all, compared with other awards, this award is much less competitive." Hu Gang didn't say anything else, if the Nebula Award should give Zhang Chong a consolation prize If so, there is a high probability that it will be the short story award.

This topic is not easy to talk about, Li Qin changed the subject and said, "The guest in charge of presenting the award this time is the famous master of fantasy novels, Lin De. Regarding the Linde and Xingyun Awards, people have to feel emotional..."

Lin De, who was standing on the stage to present the award, was not in a good mood either. He didn't want to present awards to others, and it was better to change his position with others.

"I announce that the winner of this year's Nebula Award for Outstanding Short Story is "Dust and Sand." Linde didn't bother to play tricks on the atmosphere, and quickly reported the winning work.

Afterwards, the reason for the award of "Dust and Sand" was announced on the radio, but Huaxia was in an uproar.

"Fuck, I really didn't award the short story to "The Wandering Sea Ball". I have only read "The Giant Screen" for the other novels. How about the other novels?" Luo Wei patted the table and said in an affirmative manner.

Lin Dong, who was watching the live broadcast together, also blushed, "You haven't heard of it, what kind of good book it is, I don't know anything else, I have read this "Dust and Sand", there is nothing wrong with the work, but the subject matter is too Old, with no brains, if you don’t tell you the release time, you might think it’s a sci-fi work of the last century.”

"Then isn't there something dark about it?"

"Yes, there must be something shady about this."

Zhang Junwei, who was on the side, heard the complaints from the members, and said, "There may not be a shady scene. After all, Wandering Haiqiu is still a bit different in the eyes of foreigners. It is normal for the organizing committee not to like this kind of work. Don't worry, everyone, the award will be done." It’s just started, and there are still two awards in the future. Maybe it’s a good thing that we didn’t win the short story award, maybe we lost sesame seeds and gave us a watermelon.”

Luo Wei shook his head, expressing his disapproval, "President, please don't comfort us. As far as the pissing nature of the organizing committee is concerned, if it is said that there is no shady scene, I will definitely not believe it, and you have also seen the short video just now. The meaning is already obvious."

"Look first."

Zhang Junwei didn't say anything more. Although he said that to Luo Wei and the others, he didn't know what to expect. He couldn't make predictions about this kind of thing. There is a possibility that he said, and there is also the possibility that Luo Wei said. What they want now All you have to do is wait patiently.

After presenting the award, Lin De returned to his seat and gave him an encouraging look when he passed by Zhang Zhong. He probably felt that Zhang Zhong would be very disappointed when he lost the short story award just now.

After the short story award was over, short novelettes followed. There were no shortlisted works for this award, but coincidentally, the winning writer turned out to be Penny Austin who just walked the red carpet with her partner.

Her award-winning work is "The Lost Underground Tower: The Destruction and Birth of Humanity". The title of the book is very long and sounds awesome, but the content is actually that human beings were devastated, leaving only two men and one woman, Survive together in an underground bomb shelter.

The whole book only has more than 3 words, and it actually completes the description of a series of processes of human destruction and birth.

Of course, this is something that Penny Austin is good at.

After Penny Austin won the award, of course she was very excited. After giving an impassioned acceptance speech, she was left behind by the host. She was about to present the next award——the award for the novella.

Zhang Zhong's "I, Robot" was shortlisted for the Novelette Award.

After leading everyone to watch the shortlisted works, Penny Austin held the card in her hand and said, "The winner's name is on this card in my hand. Let me tell you an important message first, he is a man."

Everyone present laughed, because all the writers shortlisted for the novella were men, so if this information is said, it is not said.

In the live broadcast room, Hu Gang said with a smile, "It seems that Penny Austin's award presentation style is completely different from Linde's."

"Well, there are two extremes."

Penny couldn't hear what Hu Gang and the others said, and continued, "Also, this author is under 40 years old."

This piece of information is useful, because among the award-winning authors, only three are under the age of 40, and Zhang Zhong is of course among them.

"The winner is handsome."

It was a useless message, presumably a compliment from Penny.

"He's not American."

Now there are only two left, Zhang Zhong and Fran from Sweden.

When it came to this point, Penny probably felt that it would be inappropriate to keep it a secret, so she said loudly, "The winning entry is——I, Robot! Congratulations!"

Zhang Chong stood up with a smile, shook hands with Lin De next to him, and then walked to the stage.

　Thank you [lazy] for the reward, thank you

　　
　
(End of this chapter)